Be the Golden Goose

Welcome to No Magic Beans blog, (not a newsletter! I have my reasons). I use this space to discuss how, no matter the pace of adoption of AI, or GLP-1s, or any other “life hacks”, there are no shortcuts to success, no magic beans. It’s a broad-theme umbrella. A lot of my writing will inevitably be about the hype of AI vs the reality of AI. But I also want to talk about the importance of doing the work when it comes to health, happiness, relationships, relevance and joy…all the things that are worth striving for, and none of the things that can be prompted in a chatbox.

My ideas are not rocket science, and they are not revolutionary. I enjoyed this Mark Mason’s post where he reminds us that ideas themeselves are not worth much and that it is the implementation of ideas that matters. Nothing is really fully original anymore. He includes advice his dad gave him: be the goose that lays the golden eggs rather than the person who steals them. In other words, generate ideas, and turn them into gold. Mark gives us a suggestion on how to do this: “You take the pieces apart and put them back together in a new way. Or just combine the idea with some other disparate idea no one else had ever considered before”.

I like this idea of being a golden goose, and I thought it a fitting sentiment to use as a title of the inaugural post, especially because the golden goose plays a role in Jack and the Beanstalk, the story that inspired this blog’s name. And I’m standing on the shoulders of giants here, which extends the fable’s analogy.

Welcome. And thanks for reading.

Eve

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