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The most important question to ask on the job is not 'What am I getting?' but 'What am I becoming?' Wages and salaries are poor measures of the value of your time. The real return on your work is the set of skills, habits, and judgment you accumulate — because those compound, and your paycheck doesn't.
— Jim Rohn, The Art of Exceptional Living (lecture series) (1991)

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AI people need people

The intelligences we care most about are still organic, not artificial. The fortunes of the company that invented the large language model remain, perhaps more than any other in the trillion-dollar club, all about its people.

2mo ago

The best investment you can make is in yourself. But most people won't because it's not tangible—you can't point to it on a balance sheet. Yet it compounds faster than any stock.

7mo ago

The best investment you can make is in yourself. But most people won't because it's not a leveraged bet, and you can't borrow money to do it.

7mo ago

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