Jacob Mazelin

on the atlas — 10

• The Right Kind of Stubborn9 savers
• Writes and Write-Nots13 savers
• How to Do Great Work67 savers
• The Secret Power of ‘Read It Later’ Apps | by Tiago Forte | Praxis | Medium1 savers
• Is There Such a Thing as Good Taste?6 savers
• 🌴 Solera Apartments | Bright + Spacious Living in Santa Clara ✨ - apts/housing for rent - apartment rent - craigslist1 savers
• Don't Talk to Corp Dev3 savers
• High Agency19 savers
• RUDDER - Reinforcement Learning with Delayed Rewards | rudder2 savers
• Clone Robotics Internship - Google Docs1 savers

highlights — 6

• It's the same with most successful people. They're never more engaged than when you disagree with them. Whereas the obstinate don't want to hear you. When you point out problems, their eyes glaze over, and their replies sound like ideologues talking about matters of doctrine

  The Right Kind of Stubborn

• Not anymore. AI has blown this world open. Almost all pressure to write has dissipated. You can have AI do it for you, both in school and at work.

  Writes and Write-Nots

• That sounds straightforward, but it's often quite difficult. When you're young you don't know what you're good at or what different kinds of work are like. Some kinds of work you end up doing may not even exist yet. So while some people know what they want to do at 14, most have to figure it out.

  How to Do Great Work

• In practice you don't have to worry much about the third criterion. Ambitious people are if anything already too conservative about it. So all you need to do is find something you have an aptitude for and great interest in. [1]

  How to Do Great Work

• There is something deeply, deeply unsatisfying about repeatedly starting something and not finishing it. This is what we experience all day at work, being continuously interrupted by a stream of “emergencies.” The last thing we want after a stressful day starved of wins is to fail even at reading an article.

  The Secret Power of ‘Read It Later’ Apps | by Tiago Forte | Praxis | Medium

• So if you want to discard the concept of good taste, you also have to discard the concept of good art. And that means you have to discard the possibility of people being good at making it. Which means there's no way for artists to be good at their jobs. And not just visual artists, but anyone who is in any sense an artist. You can't have good actors, or novelists, or composers, or dancers either. You can have popular novelists, but not good ones.

  Is There Such a Thing as Good Taste?