it is an unwritten rule of life that after every prolonged period of hardship and uncertainty, there is going to be a period when you are going to achieve quantum leaps across multiple areas of your life. the only requirement is that you do not give up on yourself
Robin Dunbar discovered in 1992 that the human brain can maintain
roughly 150 meaningful relationships.
Most of us are operating at a fraction of that number.
The capacity is there, the opportunity isn't.
The less interaction you have with strangers causes you to trust strangers less which then causes you to spend less time with them and it's a terrible cycle we get into.
Few hundred years ago, every great mind was a polymath.
- Isaac Newton: mathematician, physicist, astronomer, philosopher, author, chemist, theologian
- Michelangelo: painter, architect, sculptor, poet, engineer, anatomist
- Leonardo da Vinci: painter, writer, architect, inventor, geologist, mathematician, mechanic, physicist
Then came the 'one-expertise' age: spend years grinding one narrow domain until you’re any good.
AI will end that. Hopefully.
I can’t wait to be a founder who’s also a director, mechanic, gardener, poet, and painter, all without sacrificing depth. The Renaissance is reloading.