In this episode of “Not Boring”, Packy Robinson talks to Brie Wolfson about her Flounder Mode, a way of building a career based on one’s curiosity.
Wolfson’s career has involved a variety of roles and projects, including founding Stripe Press, working at Dandelion Chocolate, and currently serving as the CMO of Positive Sum and Colossus.
Her essay “Flounder Mode” was inspired by a day she spent with Kevin Kelly, who has had an equally diverse career and has worked in a similar style.
Kelly calls this working style “Hollywood Style”, and both he and Wolfson believe that this kind of working mode will become more common as AI takes over more routine human tasks.
In this conversation, Wolfson and Robinson discuss how to effectively work in Flounder Mode, the difference between it and laziness, and the challenges of pursuing a less legible path.
They also talk about the importance of turning curiosity into output and creating from what one consumes, traits that are currently missing in AI.
