The Sacrifices We Choose to Make

The factors in doing great work are factors in the literal, mathematical sense, and they are: ability, interest, effort, and luck. Luck by definition you can't do anything about, so we can ignore that. And we can assume effort, if you do in fact want to do great work. So the problem boils down to ability and interest. Can you find a kind of work where your ability and interest will combine to yield an explosion of new ideas?

Curiosity is the best guide. Your curiosity never lies, and it knows more than you do about what's worth paying attention to.

A special edition of <n>The Oxford Chronicle</n> commemorating the 19th century.

Miniature edition of <n>The Guardian</n> from July 22, 1969, covering the <n>Apollo 11 moon landing</n>.

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MAKING SOFTWARE

A page from the book <n>Making Software</n>, written and illustrated by <n>Dan Hollick</n>.

Introducing HealthBench

Graphic for <n>HealthBench</n>, a benchmark for evaluating large language models, by <n>OpenAI</n>.

A <n>Denim Setup</n> from <n>Lemaire</n>'s Spring/Summer 2022 collection.

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In computer programming jargon, a heisenbug is a software bug that seems to disappear or alter its behavior when one attempts to study it.

The best way to reduce anxiety is to take more action toward the life you want to live

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Digital illustration for the personal website of Cape Town-based Product Designer <n>Jackie Zhang</n>.

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People have a long-term important and curious advantage over AI: we are hard-wired to care about other people and what they think and do, and we don’t care very much about machines.

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Branding for <n>Future Fonts</n>, a marketplace for fonts in progress.

<n>Vintage Victorian Style Newspaper Design Template</n>, a <n>Victorian</n>-style illustration by <n>vectorpouch</n>.

“Do things that don’t scale” has rightfully become a mantra for startups.

In the most important ways, the 2030s may not be wildly different. People will still love their families, express their creativity, play games, and swim in lakes.

You can't think well without writing well, and you can't write well without reading well.

We have a class of products with deterministic cost and stochastic outputs: a built-in unresolved tension. Users insert the coin with certainty, but will be uncertain of whether they'll get back what they expect. This fundamental mismatch between deterministic mental models and probabilistic reality produces frustration — a gap the industry hasn't yet learned to bridge.

So you need to make yourself a big target for luck, and the way to do that is to be curious. Try lots of things, meet lots of people, read lots of books, ask lots of questions.

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What are you excessively curious about — curious to a degree that would bore most other people? That's what you're looking for.

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The trouble with planning is that it only works for achievements you can describe in advance. You can win a gold medal or get rich by deciding to as a child and then tenaciously pursuing that goal, but you can't discover natural selection that way.

<n>Lemaire</n> Fall 2024 Menswear, Look 1, shown at <n>Paris Fashion Week Men's</n>. Photo by <n>Filippo Fior</n>.