✳flâneur — a map of the web's best reading

Impact, agency, and taste | benkuhn.net

benkuhn.net · 2,530 words · saved by 23 readers

understand + work backwards from the root goal • don’t rely too much on permission or encouragement • make success inevitable • find your angle • think real hard • reflect on your thinking

Contents I've been thinking recently about what sets apart my coworkers who've done the best work. You might think that the main thing that makes people really effective at research or engineering is technical ability, and among the general population that's true. Among my Anthropic coworkers, though, we've restricted the range by screening for extremely high-percentile technical ability, so the remaining differences, while they still matter, aren't quite as critical. Instead, people's biggest bottleneck eventually becomes their ability to get leverage -i.e., to find and execute work that has

Explore this link on the map →

saved by

related reading