Full Width [alt+shift+f] Shortcuts [alt+shift+k]
Sign Up [alt+shift+s] Log In [alt+shift+l]
10
“I don’t want to learn to be better,” is something we rarely admit. We don’t say: I don’t want to learn statistics, even though it will dramatically improve my decision making. I don’t want to learn a new programming language, even though it will get me a better job. I don’t want to learn methods […]
4 days ago

More from Seth's Blog

Checking all the boxes

The simplest way forward is to see which boxes your target market has and then check all of them. Unfortunately #1: The audience doesn’t publish their actual list of boxes, they conceal many of them. Unfortunately #2: They don’t all have the same boxes. Unfortunately #3: If it were that straightforward, your competition would have […]

yesterday 2 votes
Expertise and credentials

In the ideal world, credentials would be awarded to all experts, and withdrawn from all charlatans. But they don’t always line up as neatly as that. An expert is someone who can keep a promise. Point to the results that demonstrate your skill and understanding and commitment and we’ll treat you as an expert. Credentials, […]

2 days ago 3 votes
The weird arithmetic of coordinated action

Twenty handwritten letters received by someone in power are worth a hundred times as much as two letters. And when that becomes a hundred different personal letters, increasing in volume, from different people, delivered to an organization every week for a year… it’s worth a million times as many as just twenty.

3 days ago 5 votes
Trusting AI

For generations, humans have been entrusting their lives to computers. Air Traffic Control, statistical analysis of bridge resilience, bar codes for drug delivery, even the way stop lights are controlled. But computers aren’t the same as the LLMs that run on them. Claude.ai is my favorite LLM, but even Claude makes errors. Should we wait […]

5 days ago 11 votes

More in creative

To beat fascism, tell better stories

On false narratives and the stories we need to tell

an hour ago 1 votes
Checking all the boxes

The simplest way forward is to see which boxes your target market has and then check all of them. Unfortunately #1: The audience doesn’t publish their actual list of boxes, they conceal many of them. Unfortunately #2: They don’t all have the same boxes. Unfortunately #3: If it were that straightforward, your competition would have […]

yesterday 2 votes
The Unbearable Cynicism of Trump 2.0

Who cares, nothing matters, cry about it

4 days ago 6 votes
Which Music Was Underappreciated in Its Time? A Statistical Analysis

What music slipped through the cracks but eventually found its audience?

4 days ago 15 votes