I’ve become extremely enamoured with the idea of precision this last year. Not the shadow kind where you nitpick over barely relevant details, but the form of opiniated precision where you establish a clear scope of what is and what is not in the playing field and draw on very specific knowledge and terminology without hand wavy approximations, unless these are explicitly acknowledged. In the process, I’ve realised you can genuinely outperform most of the competition just by getting better at your craft, and learning to communicate very well, at the right level of resolution required by the situation. In the age of probabilistic discourse and reversion to the mean that AI engenders, there is something incredibly beautiful about very precise conversations between 2 or more competent humans that leads to complex compounding, refined context which in turn can transform into materially observable changes in reality, in a way that’s just not immediately accessible with a ChatGPT subscription.