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Saturday, May 24, 2025
Doing Great Work
As we slog through this cycle of AI slop, like the technology cycles before it, our renaissance will come from a renewed value for great work.
There is a piece by Paul Graham which I love called How to do Great work. I find myself coming back to it several times a year. In the essay Paul talks about finding the “frontier of knowledge” in a domain. He also reminds us that we need to increase our surface area for good luck. It may seem that luck is outside our control, but there are things we can do which are in our control and vastly increase our odds of having good luck.
Recently I discovered a couple of posts which go well with How to do Great Work: Developing Taste by Emil Kowalski and Make Something Heavy by Anu Atluru .
This is what I love about the web; I can just pull on a thread of thought, and these little golden nuggets end up attached to it somewhere along the way.
As we get through this AI thing, great work, done by people, is going to matter more than ever. I hope you find these as inspiring as I have.
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How to Do Great Work
If you collected lists of techniques for doing great work in a lot of different fields, what would the intersection look like? I decided to find out by making it.
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Make Your Own Luck
We can take deliberate action to make ourselves a target for good luck.
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Developing Taste
In a world of scarcity, we treasure tools. In a world of abundance, we treasure taste.
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Make Something Heavy.
We're creating more than ever, but it weighs nothing.
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