one of the benefits of LLMs is the ability to summarize things
one of the dangers of LLMs is the ability to summarize things
read any AI product's value prop and it will say a variation of "it frees you up to do higher order/ value tasks"
nobody knows what these higher order things are
our attention is dwindling
the ability to focus for >10m appears to be a huge competitive advantage
if the author of a book was good, they will have spent months/ years pruning content
if I tell you a sequence of notes that comprise a song, did you get the same value as listening to the song? Melody is created through silences (see B.B King). Meaning and message is conveyed in pauses and structure
we are in a rush to get to the next thing, almost assuming the next thing is more valuable than the current thing. It usually isn't
