Category: Discernment


  • Not Every Utterance is Sacred

    Not Every Utterance is Sacred

    Humans have always found strange ways to make big decisions. In the 6th century BCE, people seeking answers to life’s big questions traveled to a remote mountainside in Greece to speak with a woman seated above a crack in the earth. She inhaled vapors that rose from the stone, slipped into a trance, and began…

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  • The Ballmer Method for Prompting

    The Ballmer Method for Prompting

    In the late 2000s, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer always came off a bit unhinged. Sweaty and loud, he became a meme while ranting about Microsoft’s future. There’s an apocryphal story about how Steve figured out something important, that ended up being a prescient take about an AI-first world. I think about this story once a…

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