I haven’t posted much here for a while - only 4 posts or so this year vs dozens in prior years.
I think the reason why was I stopped just writing about stuff I personally found interesting and using writing to clarify thoughts in a better way.
So going to do that a bit more again.
In January 2025 I wrote a post titled “Go all in on the biggest opportunity”
The concise version of this post:
Apply discipline & singular focus (go all in) on what you have researched and personally believe (knowledge) to be the biggest opportunity (timing) to you (personalised).
Personalised knowledge x focus x timing = sick results.
But I think timing is 2-fold.
Timing v1: The market, the wave.
Timing of an investment, or timing learning Ai early.
But Timing v2.
Timing v2 is a little more luck.
I started working with this person in June.
Had it been April, the exact same person in the exact same situation would have equated to dramatically different results.
With zero other factors. Literally none.
But luck timing isn’t something we can control as such.
But this idea of “Timed Focus” I think is.
I can choose when to be focused, both granularly (hourly or daily) but also weekly or monthly.
So I think there’s something else to this, go all in on the biggest opportunity.
I think it’s sequencing the biggest opportunities.
Planning what to learn and build is essential, but when is also key.
Sequencing is key to making extremely fast progress at key moments but also to know when to slow down or go into an unstructured research mode.
Learning AI properly has personally allowed me to do more in a few hours than I did in months prior.
Which is insanely useful, but doing a year’s “work” in a week also leads you to trying to fix the sequencing problem in a different way.
Learning how to use LLM’s effectively might be an effective way for timed focus currently.
Individuals who already have a step up in robotics or medicine when AI reaches these fields will be even more effectively positioned simply because of the timed focus they used prior.