Excellence versus Number of Commitments:

"Your capacity for excellence is inversely proportional to the number of your commitments."

Shane Parrish

Deep Understanding:

"When you truly understand something, you can express it at any level of detail while maintaining coherence.

The master can provide the one-sentence version, the paragraph version, and the chapter version, all of which tell the same story at different resolutions. The novice can only repeat what they've memorized at one resolution."

Shane Parrish

Astronaut Scott Kelly on smart:

“The smartest person in the room, I’ve learned, is usually the person who knows how to tap into the intelligence of every person in the room.”

AI:

"What if AI is just another platform shift like the iPhone rather than the civilization-transforming revolution everyone's claiming?

Benedict Evans, technology analyst and former partner at a16z, challenges the AI hype machine, arguing that while AI represents the biggest technological shift since the iPhone, it's only the biggest thing since the iPhone, not the new electricity or industrial revolution."

Shane Parrish