Curiosity Chronicle

AI is quite clearly the biggest buzzword of the year.

But one thing I don't see anyone talking about is just how much AI is shifting how rewards are earned.

Things are changing so rapidly that the frontier of accurate prediction has been pulled closer and closer to the present.

In this new world, the rewards will be earned by those who are willing to be beginners over and over again. The value seems likely to accrue to those who can combine curiosity and a beginner's mindset with bias for action.

This means that learning has become a core meta-skill. Perhaps even THE core meta-skill.

On Friday, I wrote about the Protégé Effect: the psychological phenomenon where teaching, preparing to teach, or pretending to teach information to someone else helps you learn and retain that information better yourself.

The new world will place an emphasis on adaptation. Rapid iteration. Learning and unlearning.

It sounds scary. It shouldn't.

If you're willing to be a beginner again, the future is brighter than ever...
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Last week I wrote about failing a marathon.
Six days later, at 5am, I drove back to the course alone and ran 26.25 miles in 2:48:47. Not because I needed the official result. Because when I say I'm going to do something, I do it.
In this piece, I talk about seven lessons from that solo marathon that have nothing to do with running — how to stack slow progress, how to stay in the long game, and why showing up through the valley is the whole game...
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In 1865, English economist William Stanley Jevons studied the impact of the increased efficiency of coal use.
The common economic intuition said that as efficiency improved, people would use less coal. Jevons argued that the economic reality was different: As technology improved the efficiency of coal use, demand for coal would increase as people created and justified new uses.
It became known as Jevons Paradox: technological improvements that increase the efficiency of a given resource lead to a rise in the consumption of that resource.
I think the most interesting application of Jevons Paradox is in your life. 
When you optimize for efficiency, you may find yourself doing more, not less, of the thing you tried to become more efficient at.
In this piece, I share a simple reminder:
Efficiency is great. But only when it gets you more of what you actually want...
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Last Sunday, I was scheduled to run a marathon with a goal of completing the race in 2:49:59.
I trained all summer for the race, building up to 70+ mile weeks. I tapered. I carb loaded. I meticulously prepared for every detail.
And honestly, I was certain I’d do it.
But…I failed.
After 21.45 miles at a 6:24 average pace, I stopped and walked off the course. I didn’t finish. DNF.
That’s not something you read in newsletters or see on social media every day. It’s all about wins. Successes. Achievements.
On Wednesday, I wrote about why failure is a good thing. It means you had the courage to go all-in. To try. To do something. To step into the arena.
You may not always get it done. But you’ll win at life along the way...
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The engineer took out an axe and slammed it into the brick wall.
It was June 1896. The young man had spent months working in a small brick shed behind his rented house, only to realize, at 4am, that the door wasn't big enough for what he'd built.
His name was Henry Ford. His creation, the Ford Quadricycle.
His atomic insight was simple: He began viewing the factory itself as the product.
While others obsessed over the car, he obsessed over the factory. By the early 1920s, Ford owned an extraordinary 60% of the U.S. automobile market.
But around 1921, the ground began to shift. And while Ford was destroying new prototypes and rejecting changes, Alfred Sloan was building General Motors with adaptation as its core principle.
Sloan had a different atomic insight: He began viewing the company itself as the product. Under Sloan's management, while Ford sputtered, GM's market share doubled, from around 10% at the start of the decade to around 20% by 1925.
The lesson isn't Don't be a Ford or Be a Sloan. Rather, it's Be a Ford, then a Sloan.
In this piece, I explored why the skill set that gets you to your first million isn't the same as the one that gets you from one to ten. And why, above all, adaptability is the key to life...
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Lemon - The Al agent that turns your voice instructions into finished tasks.