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Outfitting creative minds to take action and make ideas happen. From the designers and researchers behind @GoActionMethod and bestseller Making Ideas Happenđź’Ą
New York, NY
Joined November 2023
Fascinating excerpt on Walt Disney's creative process from Scott Belsky's book (@scottbelsky), Making Ideas Happen Disney had 3 separate rooms dedicated to different creative modes of thought We must continuously put ourselves in all 3 of these rooms to produce great work:
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New study finds that AI reasoning models can succeed with only 1% of the training data previously believed to be necessary We've said it before and we'll keep saying it Constraints are a forcing function for creativity Resourcefulness > resources
🤔 How many examples does an LLM need to learn competition-level math? Conventional wisdom: 100,000+ examples Our discovery: Just 817 carefully chosen ones 🤩 With pure SFT, LIMO achieves: 57.1% on AIME 94.8% on MATH LIMO: Less is More for Reasoning 📝 🔗
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George Stigler, Nobel Prize winning economist, on what holds back otherwise talented people from achieving their full potential:
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LeBron James has missed more career field goals than any other player in history with 14,882 misses. Yet he is also one of the greatest players of all time. So much of success is just getting over the fear of missing and taking an unholy number of shots on goal.
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It took George Lucas three years to write the first Star Wars movie He was given so much criticism that the final draft was barely recognizable from the first But Lucas understood that all he had to do was keep showing up:
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No one ever says "never" to their biggest dreams and ideas. A small minority get started right away and everyone else just says "not yet." And then by the time that second group realizes that "not yet" has a remarkable talent for becoming "never," it's too late.
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Gym popularity has risen sharply over the past century as more physical effort has been outsourced to vehicles & machines Could we see the cognitive equivalent this century? A growing interest in cognitive workouts as many people's cognition is increasingly outsourced to AI
Wow, from a recent study: "The findings revealed a significant negative correlation between frequent AI tool usage and critical thinking abilities, mediated by increased cognitive offloading." What does the world look like with a generation of cognitive offloaders?
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@itswhitebrad This is certainly the principle underpinning the initiative! The interesting question then becomes what the most effective approach to barnacle scraping looks like.
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Charlie Munger coined the term “Lollapalooza Effect” Describes how extraordinary results are achieved by many ordinary forces working in harmony Those who win big patiently stack a range of skills and advantages that are all aligned toward one overarching goal
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George Lucas made his crew watch 4 films before shooting the first Star Wars: 2001, Silent Running, Once Upon a Time In the West and Satyricon Each contained elements of Lucas's vision Remember: SHOWING people examples of what you want is 100x more effective than telling them
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To be creative, we must transcend the either/or mentality We must learn to be both structured and spontaneous, traditional and rebellious, passionate and objective It's not about finding a middle ground - it's about dancing between extremes
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