[Weekly Retro] Consistent. Even if you fail.
#286 - Nov.2026
Weekly Retro is a short e-mail with a wrap-up of ideas from the week, interesting links I found, and food for thought before you head off for the weekend.
Happy Saturday!
Small insight on Creativity:
Think about the most creative people in history. Think about their body of work. Most of their work was not famous. In fact, if you measure only by their success rate, they are all on the lower end. For example, Picasso made thousands of pieces and only 0.7% were a big success.
Creativity is not about success. Is about putting the work to create and express something. Seth Godin put it really well in his book The Song of Significance: “Value Contributors aren’t consistently right, they’re consistently contributing.”
Consistent. Even if you fail.
🗺️ Assorted links I found during the week
An OpenAI model left notes about how to evade containment; we need more details — LessWrong
The OpenAI AI attack on Hugging Face wasn’t the first loss of control incident at OpenAI, Reuters recently reported, and perhaps not even the most co…
Alex Mallen
The Human-in-the-Loop is Tired
On reward functions, dopamine, and what it actually feels like when the code starts writing itself
Laura Summers
LLMs aren’t writing
I'm not an AI hater: I've used it for my fair share of projects that involve coding or for troubleshooting various technology problems. In my work testing Apple's Apple Intelligence releases, I've…
Dan Moren
🖋️ Quote of the week
“Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.” — Marcus Aurelius
