Here’s your weekly guide.

This is a follow-up post to “You Spent Your Whole Life Getting Good at the Wrong Thing“ (from Feb 7th). In that piece, I walked you through the shift from thinking in terms of “how to do things” to thinking in terms of “what things to do.”

Today’s guide is about the main problem that happens after you do this shift.

The core argument is that AI can show you infinite paths to infinite futures but you remain tragically limited to walk only one. You are like Sylvia Plath sitting in the crotch of the fig tree, watching the figs ripen at the same time, starving because she can't choose.

This is an old problem in a new disguise: not so much the burden to do everything, as the burden to be everything.

My advice: choose one fig, eat it, let the others rot on the ground, and be content with their rotting, for their rotting itself is an enhancement of the taste of the one you ate.

More below.