Daily Stoic

What’s Actually Stopping You From Doing Your Best Work

I find if I'm not at the desk working in the morning, the every hour I'm waiting to get started is substantially decreasing the quality of what I bring to the table.

The a16z Show

Rick Rubin on AI, Creativity, and The Way of Code

AI is best understood not as a replacement for artists, but as another creative tool, one that expands what's possible while making taste, curiosity, and individual perspective even more valuable.

Book of the Day

R.F. Kuang says there’s 'quite a lot' of herself in 'Katabasis' protagonist Alice

Alice feels betrayed by her own mind for a lot of the book. Um when I started the novel, I did it, too. And the reason why the prose is kind of jarred and chaotic and it's crammed with references that feel like they're about to spill over and just explode, that's because that's what living in her mind is like and what living in my mind was like.

The Week

AI, GLP-1s, and Scott's Iran War Reversal | The Week

AI is not built to do that ever. I mean the the the the tool itself is built to give you the most predictable outcome possible, the antithesis of what we're trying to do when we make a TV show or a film.