7 essays
Output stopped being scarce. The bottleneck moved to the slow, lived-in kind of knowledge that no machine can pour out fast — and that is now the thing worth guarding.
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Most meetings exist to move information between people. When the information learns to move itself, the only meetings left standing are the ones that were never really about information at all.
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When trying any option becomes nearly free, choosing carefully stops being the hard part. The scarce act is committing to a path and living with it.
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A demo proves a thing can happen once. A product proves it happens every time. The distance between the two is where most startups quietly die.
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Forgetting isn't a flaw to fix with willpower. It's a plumbing problem, and we finally have the pipe.
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Generative tools have made competent work cheap and instant. The scarce thing left is knowing which competent thing is good — and that you have to build yourself.
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The hardest part of building anything is the moment before the first line exists. The cure is to make something bad on purpose.
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