The End of Organizing, Flavored Software, and More

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The End of Organizing

Dan Shipper / Superorganizers

In a surprising twist for a man who writes a column called Superorganizers, Dan believes that organizing is over.

Specifically, he thinks that the time we've spent organizing our notes is mostly wasted. And that in the future LLMs like GPT-3 will do the organizing for us.

In this essay, he lays out what the problems with organizing are, and how AI can fix them.

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Beware Flavored Software

Nathan Baschez / Divinations

This week, Nathan wrote about a certain kind of clever product: flavored software.

In his view, flavored software is software that attempts to be different in a way that creates temporary excitement, but doesn’t create lasting value. Think: podcast apps, notes apps, or every new startup that just added an AI feature over the last few months.

Flavored software is exciting—but it rarely reaches scale. This essay unpacks why.

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How to Balance Meaning and Money

Simone Stolzoff

How do we balance the pursuit of a secure living with our desire for a meaningful life? That's the topic that Simone Stolzoff tackles in his latest essay and he finds a few answers:

Intrinsic motivation is more fulfilling than extrinsic motivation
Valuing time is more fulfilling than valuing money
Satisficing is more fulfilling than maximizing

You can find out more about the science behind why, and also about how you can apply it in your own life here:

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How to Live By Your Values This Year

Casey Rosengren

If today was the last day of your life, would you be happy with how you're about to live it? That's an extremely important question for anyone starting a business.

The only way to justify the amount of suffering and difficulty involved in being a founder is because you believe the work you're doing matters. But in the day-to-day grind of startup life, it can be easy to lose touch with that.

In this essay, Casey describes how you can identify and stay close to what matters—so that you can do the best work of your life this year.

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It Is Always Time to Build

Evan Armstrong / Napkin Math

Everyone thinks that now that interest rates are going up, it's going to be harder to start successful startups. Evan thinks these people are wrong.

If you go back and look at the historical data, some of the most successful technology companies were started when interest rates were considerably higher than they are today.

He unpacks why and what that means in this week's essay.

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