[[Experience is the biggest wealth]] [[You have to be in there and in there for the experience]] [[Embodied experience is the foundation of the human conditions]] [[个人核心竞争力 = 独特的个性知识经验组合]] ## *Thisness* the "soul" of any artwork > it’s better when it’s personal, when it’s a story that only you can tell, given who you are and the life you’ve lived. In the work itself, this often shows up as specificity, of a particular shade of blue, an acetate eyeglass frame smudged with finger oils, a miscommunicated longing—of what critic **James Wood** in *How Fiction Works* calls *thisness*, or “any detail that draws abstraction toward itself and seems to kill that abstraction with a puff of palpability.” > This *thisness*, this specificity knowable only from personal experience, is what readers pick up on, and what ends up making a story universal and relevant—not catering to what’s hot in the market at any moment. And in order for a language model to truly map this terrain, you would have to feed it your entire life’s experience, everything you’ve seen and heard and read and felt, a map as multitudinous as you. The same goes for startups. When it’s so easy to prototype new ideas and spin up new products and businesses, and for others to do the same, I suspect more founders will find themselves asking: ==Why am I the right person to be building this thing? What about my personal experience do I bring to it that makes it more meaningful and true to who I am?==