Accelerando brings up a very compelling idea: spinning off threads of your consciousness to go perform other tasks. Employment is like this, and in a way LLM tools are also, but neither are `little you`s.

Key challenges with this include retaining context, incorporating your judgment, and maybe something around cultivating inspiration. One potential argument against doing this is that "doing the right thing" matters a lot more than "doing a lot of things", with a retort being, "yeah but doing more things helps you do the right thing".

To bias between these, lets focus on improving from both sides: how do you make more bets, and make better bets?

# Making More Bets
I think this depends on a couple things: "spawning" the thread, and having a distinct set of probable useful outcomes. For spawning, you need to be able to link to literal resources, describe thread direction, and "validation" strategies (like automated tests).

Outcomes are a little more complicated, but invariably the possible outcomes are what motivate the threads in the first place. For databuild, the eventual outcome I care about is people using it, and developing my own understanding of the space. I'm not trying to gamify this, but having measurable outcomes is useful.

It feels a little like I'm nudging myself towards a "github issues" style system, but in markdown, which can be referenced and reference the codebase.

# Making Better Bets
How do we make these threads better? Where "better" means:

1. More inspired - representing net better expected value relative to other's understanding.
2. More likely to turn into "forward progress".




# FAQs
## Does "cultivated inspiration" matter more than "careful prioritization"?
Essentially, does the `je ne sais quoi` factor dominate in practical value over the bet portfolio, rather than the "I can predict the specific value of this outcome" side? I am inclined to say both. Work is the domain of "by the books", so no need for biasing too much towards "specific value prediction".

So, bias towards "cultivated inspiration" as the macro strategy, but still rely on literal bets that turn into threads.