How to automate

Step 1: Do it manually. Enough time that you get a familiarity with the task. Learn the shape of it, pay attention to the edge cases, look for patterns. Record as much data as possible.

Step 2: Once you’ve noticed a pattern, build a system to replicate the manual steps.

Step 3: If the system is capable of operating by itself you’re done, else go back to step 1 but faster.

• An I’m bored app to replace instagram/youtube and redirect my attention to things that i endorse more (while still replenishing my mental energy)
• a recommender system for everything
• a dashboard i can use to keep track of tasks/priorities and an ai watcher that can help me avoid getting distracted
• an llm clone of myself trained on my dms
• a couchsurfing app for staying with friends across the world (and friends of friends)
• ai native object oriented note taking done right
• an app to make it easy for me to have a good morning routine

Derivatives matter. An exponential eventually dominates every polynomial because it’s nth derivative is always positive - it is always getting faster and the rate at which it’s getting faster is always getting faster etc.

I think it’s quite easy to focus too much on absolute positions when in reality, the derivatives matter so much more. In the last year, I think that a lot of the ways I’ve spent my time have been quite myopic - darting from one deadline to the other; thinking about how to get to each individual destination as quickly as possible rather than how to get to all destinations quicker.