“We’re not ambitious enough” is easy to post and hard to follow. Here’s a practical tutorial, with prompts.
Impatience: The Pitfall of Every Ambitious Person
Big splashes don’t happen. Overnight success doesn’t exist. We have to remind ourselves of that whenever we show impatience.
Chasing life goals is a recipe for disaster – so try these tiny experiments instead
Whether its our careers, health or relationships, we often set the bar too high and end up feeling disappointed when it doesn’t work out. Try this new way of thinking … and you may just see some real results
Crafting a good (reasoning) model
A recent talk I gave on model training, reasoning, and the next frontier.
What are Mental Models? — updated 2026
Harness the power of understanding and predicting user behavior with mental models. Simplify systems and enhance decision-making in your designs.
Claude Opus 5.5 Should Raise Your Ambitions
When it comes to making things, or doing most things in general, Fable 5.1 and especially GPT-6 Astra raised my ambition level.
A beautiful constraint – summary
A beautiful constraint. How to transform your limitations into advantages. By Adam Morgan & Mark Barden. Summarised by paul_arnold@me.com – Strategic facilitator, planner and trainer. Th…
Ambition - An Essay by David Whyte
Ambition is a word that lacks any real ambition. Ambition is frozen desire, the current of a vocational life immobilized and over-concretized to set, unforgiving goals.
Mental Models: The Best Way to Make Intelligent Decisions (~100 Models Explained)
The smartest people in the world use mental models to make intelligent decisions, avoid stupidity, and increase productivity. Let's take a look at how ...
How to do hard things
A fully general system for learning to do things you currently find difficult, only somewhat tongue-in-cheek.
The Optimization Trap: Why Too Much Efficiency Makes Us Fragile with Olivier Hamant
The Busy Person's Guide to Thinking
Thinking better isn't about learning more; it's about doing a few simple things that really help create unstoppable progress.
The Optimization Trap: Why Too Much Efficiency Makes Us Fragile - The Great Simplification
In this episode, Nate is joined by biologist and biophysicist Olivier Hamant to explore why living systems prioritize robustness over performance, and what that means for a civilization built almost entirely in the opposite direction.
Claude Opus 4.8: Capabilities and Reactions
You need a lot of data points to understand a new model, and what you have.
Yet Another Incremental Game But This Time About Coding
95❤ 2.7⭐ | by Poptocrack Yet Another Incremental Game (But This Time About Coding) is an idle clicker where your keyboard is your greatest weapon. Don’t worry, you don’t need to know how to code. Just roll your head on the keys, and watch characters magically appear as your projects take shape. There’s no “The End” (yet), but there’s always more code to generate, more upgrades to unlock, and more progress to chase. Features: Mash keys, spawn code – type anything (or nothing that makes sense) and your code grows. Hire AI assistants – automated helpers who type for you, so you can lean back. Recruit AI uber agents – specialists for one specific task, boosting production even further. Take on client projects – earn rewards by coding for imaginary customers. Unlock upgrades and achievements – keep pushing your efficiency to absurd levels. Idle progress – your AI keeps coding even while you’re away. Light narrative flavor – quirky messages and hints of a bigger mystery add some personality. Whether you’re here for the numbers going up, the absurdity of mashing your keyboard, or the dream of an AI-powered dev empire, this game delivers the core incremental loop fans love.
"There is a contrast between my biological development, confidently realizing its in-built norm, and my fumbling psychological development, realizing partially..one among many apparently possible orders .. Learning what to want is the most radical, the most painful and the most creative art of life"
