Also, at a certain point, the "most valuable problem" is mid. Once you've solved all the intuitively highly valuable problems, you're left with:

1. Intuitively valuable, but meh.
2. Unintuitively valuable, but incredibly impactful.

If you over optimize for *provable* value, you'll only get #1.

I really love these analysis type posts. Would love to read more of them!

In both cases I think it’s more a moral argument masquerading as a strategic one. So I wouldn’t call either of them invalid (your morals are your morals), but do get frustrated by the masquerade.

When I’m confused that people don’t get this, I try to remind myself that there are also people who are completely opposed to taking on monetary debt because they view it as universally bad.

I'm wondering how this meshes with my theory that Candy Land is an allegory for Predestinationism.

Can't believe it's been 20 years.

That was a good one! Also in the vein of MySQL: primary key overflow day. The day writes stopped 😅

Randy in 3 weeks

This a hundred times over. I've been meaning to experiment with Claude, but have been dragging my feat because ChatGPT has so much memory and preferences encoded I know it'll be more work to use.

I went back and forth before upgrading to the paid tier as it feels a bit pricey for my use case. I don’t live in a CRM like a sales rep would. But it drives my sales pipeline. I also use it to manage professional contacts in general for networking purposes.

I use them for my consulting sales pipeline, highly recommend.

StreakCRM has a free tier AND a “job seeker” template that includes a pipeline just for these purposes.

Hard to prove but it sounds good!

AI will simply remove the bullshit from our jobs which will cause us to invent new bullshit that's harder to automate.

Think of the how the invention of photography forced painters to invent abstract expressionism.

The only down side is it doesn’t accomplish anything.

But the upside is we get to feel like we’re doing something.

What if we create a special team that’s in charge of innovation and let them goof off? Also, we have to let them have no interaction with other teams where they might get context on what useful things to goof off on are. They might infect others with their goofing off.

Does “justifying the purchase of a power washer” count as a challenge?

It's a control thing.