Summary: This week, Wisereads features insights on completing personal projects from Tomas Stropus and discussions on AI and art by Ted Chiang. It also highlights Paul Graham’s unique leadership approach and offers a classic reading of Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. Additionally, the newsletter includes interesting facts about airplanes and leadership styles from Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang.
The moment you declare a project “done,” you open it up to criticism, both external and internal. (View Highlight)
art requires making choices at every scale; the countless small-scale choices made during implementation are just as important to the final product as the few large-scale choices made during the conception (View Highlight)
“Founders feel like they’re being gaslit from both sides — by the people telling them they have to run their companies like managers, and by the people working for them when they do. Usually when everyone around you disagrees with you, your default assumption should be that you’re mistaken. But this is one of the rare exceptions.” (View Highlight)