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“I built a friendship where we both get better instead of just comfortable.”
Most easy friendships are quietly built under, they ask nothing, challenge nothing, and leave you exactly where you started. You and this friend push each other, call each other up, expect more. That's rare and worth guarding. Seneca's whole rule for company is in it: keep the people who improve you, and be one who improves them.
Your Practice
- Name what this friend pulls out of you that comfort never could.
- Hold up your end, be the friend who raises them too, not just the one who's raised.
- Have the hard conversations this friendship can hold. That capacity is the whole value.
- Don't trade it for easier company when life gets busy. Builders are hard to replace.
The Architects
“This has been going on for 30-plus years, and LLMs are only going to make it worse. There's not enough dialogue about the implications of generative AI on the offensive side of the landscape.”
Nik Seetharaman, Interview in TechCrunch, "When generative AI cyberthreats arrive, Wraithwatch will be ready and waiting," November 2, 2023