Reading a single one of Greene's books is worth decades of coaching:
Mastery → Find your life’s work
48 Laws of Power → Influence every outcome
33 Strategies of War → Navigate competition with ease
Art of Seduction → Charm and persuade anyone
Robert Greene compressed several lifetimes of wisdom into a single life.
He has written 1000s of pages on how to obtain the things we most want (but won’t admit to): Power. Love. Wealth. Fame.
8 ideas to master yourself and your life:
Assume Formlessness
Ebb and flow to life itself. The 48th of the 48 laws of power.
Life is a series of moments strung together. Our respond to each moment influences our lives.
Listen to yourself and meet the moment.
https://t.co/Fuu5VioFa5
"There’s this writing style in popular non-fiction that I’ll call the ‘Malcolm Gladwell method of shoving-a-story-in-your-face’.
It substitutes argumentation for storytelling and anecdote, and in so doing sidesteps the difficulty of making a case..." ~@ejames_c
Hilarious & true
Lever to improve education: teacher quality
Replacing a bottom 5% teacher with an average teacher was found to add $250,000 in lifetime earnings across the students they teach.
The effect persists for years afterwards too.
LLMs + teachers -> inflect lifetime earnings curves?
Companies should be careful marketing new features as "powered by GPT" in July 2023
Immediately signals either:
a) your team moves slow
b) the AI revolution caught you off guard
c) you market to grandmas
Better to focus on the magic unlock rather than hoping GPT catches an eye
Invert the prestige
Before taking someone's advice, strip away everything other than the outcomes they have achieved before. Especially focus on titles.
If they weren't Harvard/McKinsey/Amazon, would you still believe them?
If yes, proceed.
If no, you're buying a narrative.
Maybe if Evernote had anyone left in their product & eng org they could find a way to send me a follow up email asking why I left.
Also downloaded Obsidian again, maybe third time is the charm.
Will try this Notion -> Obsidian sync later this week too: https://t.co/WwsSQyflUR
The downfall of Evernote (as we all knew).
Used to be my go-to app for notes. Slowly degraded over time.
Laying off all the staff is the icing on the cake to get the notes out of there asap.
https://t.co/tcdOxLw2pi
The interesting part was that importing all of my notes into Notion was one of the easiest Evernote experiences I can recall having.
Notion import UX was easy, and I got a fairly cheerful email from the company that I just churned from (well, the free tier).