Adriana Lakatosova

leaving London fully inspired. #mapcamp #stories #usemapstotellstories

‘uncertainty tolerance’ is the greatest indicator of someone’s success

“The greatest people are self-managing. They don’t need to be managed. Once they know what to do, they’ll go figure out how to do it. What they need is a common vision, and that’s what leadership is.” — Steve Jobs

Genuine take: normalize fractional IC roles. I could handily PM 5 products and would probably be made better by exposure to diverse problems & cultures. How much of anyone’s 40 hours is performative nonsense? With AI I think we’re going to see the rise of gig economy knowledge work either within or between companies. Either engineers working at 5 companies or PMs pinch hitting as marketers on sprints. The only hard limit on capacity for an individual is waking hours, and with bg agents and the like, even that as a cap is starting to blur. Now before r/overemployed or whatever starts cheering this on: comp structures would have to change too. No more “if I do my assigned work I should get paid the same no matter how long it takes.” Everything becomes coin op, and the fungibility of talent devalues it. But at least it’s honest: employees get paid to produce. And employers stop pretending something magic happens at 40-or-whatever hours a week. This also feels like the natural conclusion of a talent base raised on ZIRP that has loudly insisted on full remote, get-out-of-my-room-MOM distributed operating models. Will the full remote revolution lead way to the full fractional team? Why not?

Programming was supposed to be for everyone. Maybe it still can be. New blog post—live now. unscripting.substack.com/p/beyond-the-g…

The hottest new programming language is English

A life well lived is a life well spent. Looking back on everything, I’ve realised that true fulfilment comes from creating. The act of making gives us the space to feel whole again and release emotional turmoil. unscripting.substack.com/p/a-life-well-…

The creator economy is very real. 🤍 Wrapping up this series of interviews with artists, each one sharing their unique journey of expressing themselves through art using digital tools. Next week also marks the end of this passion project 🎪🎟️. Join me. momentummusic.substack.com/p/krkv

If you could put one idea on a billboard for the world to see -- what would it be? Here's mine: Adults don't exist. If you dig deep enough under low agency behaviour, you discover a belief in a god-like adult class that is superior to them. There’s a Peter Pan perception of reality that has been frozen in time from childhood. The fictional beliefs of Santa and the Toothy Fairy were uncovered – but the belief in a god-like adult class that runs the world still remains. Teachers, politicians, parents, service staff, CEO’s – there’s this mystical group of adults who have figured everything out. In the low agency model of the world, there’s a world full of emperors – all wearing beautiful clothes. The high agency individual was told the same story in their childhood — but they began to see behind the curtain. Some gradually saw it — others were forced to see it all at once: The adults of the world aren’t a god-like superior class that have figured everything out, they’re just giant children putting on a show. Not only are the emperors not wearing any clothes, they are not even emperors. If you ever get to meet your heroes, you realize Superman was Clark Kent all along – but your mind beforehand was a movie studio falsely putting this human on a pedestal. A low agency fallacy to fall into is to see your backstage (inner dialogue, emotions, messy life) and contrast it to other adults stage performance (words, social media profile, job title). The low agency fallacy dehumanizes other adults: It puts them on a pedestal of a superior god-like class. One modern trope thrown around in the self-help world is the concept of “Imposer Syndrome” – and how the solution is to simply believe in yourself more. A more useful alternative is to just realise that everyone else is also just figuring it out: They started off as a sperm cell, fertilized an egg, came into this world screaming in a hospital bed with no sense of self, downloaded patterns of information from those around them that seemed certain — and now we call them “adults”. Deep down, everyone is just a child that has aged, with sensory inputs each day trying to figure out what reality is. If you could see behind the curtain of everyone, you’d humanise these people: They are not gods. They eat, sleep, cry and visit the bathroom just like you. Reality gives many red pill moments if you pay attention closely enough: 1. The Teacher Red Pill - One of the biggest red pill moments comes in your early 20’s: A person you know who has a messy emotional life and is unsure of what they want to do with their life decides to become a teacher. You then do the mental maths: A large % of the teachers you put on pedestals in childhood were also just giant children figuring things out. Your whole foundation of reality was a facade: The adults never existed. 2. The Milestone Red Pill - When you’re young and meet someone who is 18, 21, 25, 30, 40, 50…. You think they are a different creature to you. You can’t imagine what it’s like being that age – but you’re convinced you’ll have everything figured out by the time you are that age. You then hit these age milestones yourself – and notice you’re still the same creature. You never got the magic adult badge of figuring everything out. You have some experience, greyer hair and wrinkles – but you never transcended into the god-like adult class. The red pill moment happens: These different creatures never existed. It was all a lie. They were just giant children figuring things out too. The low agency mindset has built an immune system defence to these red pill moments. They live in a state of denial, and if a superior god-like adult gets undeniably exposed as just a grown up child — the vacuum gets filled with a new god-like adult: They have the red pill teacher moment – but they fill the vacuum with a new super guru they follow online. Or they find out their parent was just a fallible human – and now replace that void with a politician who has all the answers. Humanize the "adults' around you. Do not put them on pedestals. The adults don't exist. There’s just giant children figuring things out.

That's not a Tech Question open.substack.com/pub/sceniusmag…

Here's my conversation with Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) about the positive role of AI and technology in the recent history and future of human civilization. This was fascinating and fun! youtube.com/watch?v=-hxeDj…

Why @friedberg is insanely bullish on influencers replacing traditional brands: "In the future all advertising gets replaced by content creation." "If you don't have content creation in your blood, you have to buy a content business, or you're gonna die." @theallinpod

@absynthmind @bobvanluijt befriend your insanity 👥

love to share this rabbit hole @curiousadka, @bobvanluijt

My letter to the Airbnb team about @jgebbia

Emergence on Thoughtforms thoughtforms.substack.com/p/emergence?ut…

“Everybody in an organization is a strategist, even down to the individual.” — @RogerLMartin, Former Dean of the Rotman School of Management via @IDEOU

Hello my lovely network 🌍! I’ll be staying in the New York City for a few days so let’s catch up at a coffe or a beer in case You’re also here! 👊

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