Jay Hoffmann

Because work environments change slowly, it benefits your team more to give them feedback about how they can succeed in their current environment than to agree with them about how the current environment does a poor job of supporting them. Agreeing feels empathetic, but frames them as a bystander rather than active participant in their work

This is particularly true when you share your concerns with your team. You may have to acknowledge the problems around you to maintain credibility, but done frequently that creates a values oasis. It also frames you as an observer of the problem rather than part of the solution, which diminishes you in the eyes of whoever you’re talking with.

I’m wondering f what it would be like to have a machine that we ship around that downloads websites to physical media.

I'm very interested in the idea of collecting the things I know a little bit about or I'm exploring into different branches that make up a kind of map of my own interests.

And this approach, by Lisa Ko, to writing novels captures that idea wonderfully. It's a process that's measured in years and as my own years tick by that's much more appealing to me.

We aren’t using AI to expand our creative possibilities, we’re using it to commodify our already cheap ideas.

Democratizing creativity would be making sure every school in America has programs for art, music, podcasting, video production, and writing for reasons beyond passing standardized tests. Instead, we’re going to give them tutor bots.