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Notion, AI, and Me | thesephist.com

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Over my last year of independent work, I built a lot of prototypes and stepped one foot into research land. I also learned a lot about how I work — what I enjoy working on, what I’m good at, what I’m bad at, and what I want to be doing long-term. One thing I spent a lot of time thinking about is the life cycle of ideas: How a good idea can die on the vines because of bad or premature execution. How a bad idea can become the “default” because it just happened to be what everyone adopted when a big paradigm change swept the world. And how ideas, in general, have many stewards over their lifetimes; the best ideas often start in niche communities or research labs, then get picked up by products or communities with progressively less niche interests and incrementally wider distribution until, if we’re lucky, they reach billions of people. Different kinds of people and companies excel at different parts of this grand propagation of ideas. Some people, often researchers, enjoy working at the

Cross-posted from my Notion . Over my last year of independent work, I built a lot of prototypes and stepped one foot into research land . I also learned a lot about how I work — what I enjoy working on, what I'm good at, what I'm bad at, and what I want to be doing long-term. One thing I spent a lot of time thinking about is the life cycle of ideas: How a good idea can die on the vines because of bad or premature execution. How a bad idea can become the "default" because it just happened to be what everyone adopted when a big paradigm change swept the world. And how ideas, in general, have ma

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