Hello there, friend!

Last week, I decided I have to make an exception and skip the newsletter, as my Friday thesis deadline was approaching. Well, that deadline was extended to this Friday instead, and because I want to make the most of it, this week’s letter is short too.

Last week’s dig-ups

Personal metawork

• Brian Rommele, who’s among other things developing “super-prompts” for LLMs shared some of his tricks:

  • "Hypnotize” ChatGPT into thinking it’s doing remote viewing 

  • Use triangulation (ask the same thing in different ways)

  • Leverage layers of inception

• Alex Hormozi mentioned how he makes content creation effortless – his team comes up with ideas worth expanding on based on his previous videos, and prepares rough outline. Alex then just riffs on that, and the team edits it.

  • Now, the reason I put this under personal metawork is that I think this is the best approach to content creation even without a team – using your existing content as a scaffolding for future one. What this needs is just a little extra effort to mine the ideas worth double-clicking on and creating the outline. If you do this, creating that next piece is going to be that much easier.

Collective metawork

• Indy Johar on the Boundaryless Conversations talked about

  • The Paradigm Shift From an Infinite World perspective which was based on separation to make the world graspable, to a Small World perspective that has to be based on the recognition interdependencies

  • The need for governance that matches future risks to present capital allocation, and for rethinking the concept of ownership

  • Such governance will require society-wide psychological growth to be feasible. Which might sound impossible, but similar leaps happened in the past.

  • The attention economy is inimical to decentralized governance (which is required to deal with complexity), because decentralized governance actually has to be grounded in the ability to find things everyone agrees on

Entrepreneurship

• Dickie Bush and Nicolas Cole talked about growing your business:

  • There’s a big difference between making $10k a month from several side hustles and making it from focused effort

  • To grow fast, pack your high-ticket offer into your low-ticket one to both delight your customers and force yourself to come up with an even better high-ticket offer

  • Aim for non-linear growth (~doubling your monthly income), and when you achieve a new level, take a step back to crystalize & tune up your processes

  • In general, you can’t charge as much when selling information as when selling results (i.e. support & accountability)

    • Alex Hormozi says the same

  • Building a business is the best path of self-discovery and development

• An interesting point from a very different perspective – having children is good for entrepreneurs

Philosophy & Sense-making

• Overemphasizing personal responsibility and the Hero myth raises the danger of hubris, which is the root cause of classical tragedies

• Reductionism Increases Local Efficiency But Also Maximizes Externalities

• Virtue Can’t Be Achieved If We Pursue It as a Means to an End

Reflection

• I’m really looking forward to being done with the thesis and going all in on building an organizational coaching business. But I’ll start by reflecting on my writing & insight-generating workflow.

And that’s it! Let me know what resonated, wish me luck, and look forward to finally some longer-form content next week.

Take care

Chris