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  Trying to shortcut past necessary personal work always backfires, and real progress requires confronting oneself directly.

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  anything that feels like a way to get out of doing the work will come back to bite you. You have to go through yourself to get anywhere good.

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Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb; previously an infrastructure engineer at Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab, and co-author of Observability Engineering.

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  AI can be a shortcut around thinking or a way of thinking more rigorously, and for your core job function only the second one is wanted.

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  You can use AI as a shortcut to help you not have to think too much. And you can use AI to help you think more deeply and more rigorously. And both of those use cases have their place. But when it comes to your core job function, we primarily want the second one, right?

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  Writing is thinking on paper and there is no shortcut for doing that thinking, so handing the writing to AI hands away the thinking.

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  And I have decided not to sink anymore because writing is thinking on paper. And there's no shortcut for doing that thinking.

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Full-stack Laravel developer based in Madison, Wisconsin; maintains open-source Laravel, Livewire and Alpine.js packages and writes at randallwilk.dev.

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  I've never liked Spotlight on macOS, and previously I used Alfred as a replacement. However, now I've discovered Raycast. Raycast is my primary mode of navigating through macOS, as I've bound the keyboard shortcut to

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Wall Street Journal bestselling author on marketing and writing, partner at MarketingProfs, and writer of the fortnightly Total Annarchy newsletter.

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  When a shortcut is available to everyone, the real competitive edge is knowing when not to use it.

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  Because when everyone has access to the same shortcuts, the real edge is knowing when not to take them.

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Writer on learning and skill acquisition; author of Ultralearning and Get Better at Anything, known for the MIT Challenge and the Year Without English.

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  Expertise is an enormous accumulated library of small facts and skills, which is why no method can shortcut the sheer volume of learning it takes.

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  The boring truth is that expertise in most subjects is largely a matter of having an enormous library of knowledge and skill.

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Co-founder of Sundial; former vice president of product design at Facebook; author of The Making of a Manager; writes The Looking Glass.

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  The real danger of AI is not that it does our work but that it lets us shortcut hard feelings, the way a phone already lets us avoid a difficult conversation.

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  You can shortcut like hard feelings because now you can just watch TikTok instead of actually dealing with the very difficult emotion or tension that you had with a colleague or with your partner or with your children.

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