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Shaping paradise into existence – or: “a website is real estate”
A parallel between transforming a rundown piece of land into a cherished family home and creating your own website.
- Social media accounts are like standardised rental units with limitations.
- Owning a website gives you complete freedom to build and shape your own digital space that anyone can visit
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Value unearthers – a reflection on building value in society
The concept of "value unearthers" - people who discover hidden value that others don't see.
- Value unearthers identify a particular potential, questioning why others don't recognise what they find extraordinary.
- They don't merely discover value but cultivate it, creating systems that amplify and share it with others.
- Through deep knowledge of the systems they build, they become uniquely positioned to continue expanding that value
- Society eventually recognises their contribution, integrating their role into economic systems and compensating them accordingly
- Their work creates mutual benefit rather than coming at others' expense.
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AI reflection #1 Delegation and the question of skill atrophy
We face a a fundamental tension when expanding our projects.
Do we delegate work and risk diluting our mission?
Or do we work alone, limiting growth but preserving its integrity?
- When we delegate skills, we risk our own abilities atrophying from disuse.
- AI creates new opportunities for those without resources to delegate tasks. We all become project managers of sorts.
- There is a virtuous cycle when we first learn skills ourselves, and only then automate them. We can expand projects while maintaining our agency and understanding of it.
- The ultimate goal is human connection and community, not just project management.
Intelligent delegation through a "learn-then-automate" approach can help us transcend the delegation dilemma, ultimately leading to meaningful human collaboration.