Hi Guys!
Greetings from Jakarta.
I just finished Write of Passage last week, and it was such a transformational experience for me. I never felt that a course has so much impact in me, it affects my world view.
I am never good at making friends. Well, I could make new friends, but I always having trouble keeping them close. Why is that? Because I feel insecure and inferior to others. Maybe it is because of my childhood, or maybe it just me avoiding the world. But, that is my previous self.
Write of Passage forced me to talk, discuss, brainstorm, contribute, and embrace the online community. I never feel so stressed out stepping out of my comfort zone, embracing people all around the world, and try to contribute to people who I think is better than me.
I was skeptical at first. I think I will never make friends during this online course. But, boy oh boy I was wrong. Not only I make friends from all over the world, I now have daily writing sessions with them! I have changed from an introverted, timid, and reserved guy, into this outgoing, sociable, and lively guy!
Write of Passage is a personal development class disguised as a writing class.
I am more confident speaking with other people, my English is more fluent, and I am ready to be a writer! (still trying to find my Personal Monopoly though, but hey! Rome was not built in a day right?)
I am truly grateful for David Perell and Will Manon for letting me undergo this transformative course together with you guys. Also, thank you my fellow #WoPers!
If you have not checked out my article, last week I published an article on How Tiago Forte Changed How I See Productivity. It's my personal experience learning Tiago Forte method, applying it, and radically change how I perceive productivity. I no longer see productivity as a ‘goal’. I now see productivity as a ‘lifestyle’.
Enough with my personal update, let’s hop into this weeks findings!
📲 Technology
GPT-3
[#Article] GPT-3 Will Accelerate The Privatization of Internet Communities by Adam Keesling
With the rise of GPT-3, people are asking, how GPT-3 will change the world? The answer is a lot, but with some adjustment period in between.
I recently tweet about this and I am very bullish about GPT-3. It can help writers avoid writer’s block by having a personal coach at your fingertips.
Will it replace writers with robots? Probably not, but Adam Keesling argues it will change how people interact with social media. Why is that? Because GPT-3 can impersonate everyone online. People will join a private, verified, human community, to interact with other people, not some doppelgängers.
📖 Philosophy
[#Article] My Life Pouring Concrete by Michael Humeniuk
An article about the life of a construction worker. Many people now works in a clean, air conditioned, comfortable place. No people wants to work in a dirty, dark, creepy, muddy, place pouring cement all day. They mostly receive negative sentiment,
High stress environment makes the workers do drugs. They don’t want to, but that is the only way to alleviate the pain. If they do not work, they cannot earn money. It’s a vicious cycle but, construction workers are really underrated.
Construction workers have strong work ethic, have a sense belonging in their community, and always have each other back. These sentence resonates with me:
A few years ago, while walking with a friend who had worked alongside me at the same construction company, we saw a car veer off the road and smash through the wall of a convenience store. Working a few blocks away, members of a construction crew heard the accident and sprinted over. They pulled the female driver out of her smoking car and laid her out on the sidewalk. These were the only people to help before the ambulance arrived, while the other, more “respectable,” bystanders held up their phones to record everything. My friend reflected, “It makes me proud to have worked construction.”
We are so plugged in into the social media we have lose what is the most important aspect of human beings. The capability to help others. Construction workers know well that their job is high risk. This is the very fundamental why they help each other out.
Are you stereotyping construction workers with negative attributes?
🧘🏻 Self Development
Derek Sivers
[#Podcast] Derek Sivers: Innovation Versus Imitation [The Knowledge Project Ep. #88]
I was introduced to Derek Sivers last week. I remembered reading a tweet on the summary of his new book “Hell Yeah or No!”
I saw the twitter thread and was thinking, “wow, what a wonderful insights!” I looked for him and found this podcast by Farnam Street. The podcast really has many insights, and one of them resonates well with me. Ideas as a multiplier of execution. You can hear the highlight of the podcast down below.
A great idea, without any execution, have lower value than, an okay idea, with a great execution. I suddenly remember the lessons David told during Write of Passage. In order to improve our writing skills, we just have to publish, publish, and publish. You can have all of the greatest ideas you have in the world, but without publishing your work, your great ideas only worth $20.
So get up, formalize your ideas, and start executing it!
Thank you! See you on the next issue!
Juan Christoferson