The Importance of the Synthesizer

It is one of the most important skills you can have (and share).

March 17, 2024

Welcome to The Digital Renaissance

Hello, Happy Sunday! I hope you had a good weekend!

The labels you need to know:

  • The Rabbit Hole: A rabbit hole for you to dive and explore if it piques your curiosity.

  • The Career Hub: Links and resources to level up your career, business, and professional life.

  • The Personal Hub: Links and resources to level up your personal life.

Read time: 3 minutes

The Rabbit Hole

I have a question for you.

How long do you think it would take you to grow a YouTube channel to 10M subscribers?

10 years? 20 years? Maybe you would say never?

Ok, what about if Mr Beast got his channels taken away from him, how long do you think it would take him to reach 10M subscribers? One year, maybe two?

What’s the difference? He wouldn’t work harder than you or me.

The difference is the knowledge he has.

With this in mind, you can see how knowledge is critical to growing and achieving goals faster.

But today we have so much information that it’s difficult to find and learn the pieces of knowledge we need for our specific goals.

“We are drowning in information while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.” - E. O. Wilson.

This is why I believe we need synthesizers more than ever. People who specialize in curating the best information and sources possible, to then summarize and present all the options available so that you can learn and decide if you want to dive deeper into that or not.

Synthesizers will not be just the ones who curate for others. This is a skill that you should develop for yourself.

Learning how to consume → digest → understand → summarize → save that information for your future reference.

If you want to take the extra step, teach (or pretend to teach) that information to someone. We learn better by teaching to others and it’s a win-win for both sides.

Let’s say that usually, the big and important lessons take 5-10 years for us to learn.

If you get to live for 100 years, then you will ONLY learn 10-15 big lessons. That’s nothing!

You can advance so much more if you take lessons and knowledge from others who have gone through the same before.

Read books, blogs, and articles. Listen to and watch documentaries, educational videos, and interviews.

But don’t only consume. Digest and synthesize for yourself (and others) what you learned.

That’s how you can grow 10 years in 1.

And if you synthesize it for others, you will expand your network and net worth.

The Career Hub

  • Kids and in my opinion, adults also, should be learning how to work with AI tools, because that’s where we are going - it’s who can use them vs who can’t. (Tweet)

The Personal Hub

  • A quick tip from Yohei on how he manages “20k+ github stars, 45+ arxiv citations, 500eth secondaries on my nfts, welcoming 3 kids, while launching a venture fund” (Tweet)

  • Claude 3 (The AI) draws a self-portrait. (Tweet)

"The mind is everything. What you think you become.”

Buddha

That’s all for today, I hope you enjoyed it!

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