13-1a3.0a Always go for the best—work on the best project, work in the best industry, work with the best people

And constantly recalibrate what’s best because it changes.revisit

Business is about making the best. Investment is about finding the best.

Put the work in—read everything, go to places, become the most knowledgeable in the relevant field.

Related:

• Go for what’s best for you—and accept that they change
  • 12-1e0 Everything changes
  • 12-1e4 Nothing is objectively and independently good
• Catch up to the best first—since verification is the same as discovering except when it’s verified via zero-knowledge proof (e.g., see Scott Aaronson)revisit
  • 1-2g2q1 Science is about independent replication. Only trust as scientific truth what can be independently verified-replicated.
  • 9-1b0a When you have learned something, the way it exists in your mind is the same as the way it exists in the mind of the inventor
• You have to think for yourself, but you don’t have to come up with everything (e.g., investment ideas)
  • 1-1a4c2 The whole is greater than the sum of its parts
    • Often times I should just collect and connect ideas, rather than coming up with each ideas by myself
  • 1-1a5b4 ‘Release early and often, delegate everything you can, be open to the point of promiscuity’
    • 2-1c1 ‘Comparative advantage’ - If others can do it, let them
• 1-1c You need the best available epistemology because it affects how you see the world
• 1-1c6a3.0 The decision should be obvious
• 1-2 We are fallible
• 1-2d You have to know your problem-situation (and your web of ideas) as best as you can to judge the merit of new explanations
• 1-2e You literally MAKE a decision by creating the best explanation that you can from the web of ideas that you have at the moment (i.e., abduction-guessing)
• 2-1a1a3d ‘Relative satisfaction (or misery) tendencies’ - Your average five is important, and you can spend time with the best of the best with internet
• 2-1b2b5 Know the correlations between your bets. Holy grail is fifteen or so uncorrelated bets.
  • Best >>>>> Uncorrelated
• 5-1b1b2b Don’t try to be the best. Be the only.
  • 10-2g1f Imitation = limitation (imitation has limitation)
• 7-1a5 Startups work on technology because great ideas made viable by newest tech (itself a new technology) is the best source of rapid change and growth
• 13-1a Humans have problems because we have to choose because we could be otherwise because of the multiverse
• 13-1a3a2d5 Money is one of the best explanatory tools available, but not perfect
• QUE5 - What’s the best thing you could be working on, and why aren’t you
• RUL3 - “Staying Upwind” - don’t plan too much; instead, work on ambitious projects and flow to the most interesting that gives you the best options for the future
• RUL3 - Bounded commitment - choose one best thing available, commit for predetermined time period, then revisit. Similar to balancing depth-first vs breadth-first in search algorithms. Think of your time as quantifiable resource like capital.
• When you map out the alternatives via digitization, you get to pick the best—without it you live indexically, as it were, and the concept of the best doesn’t exist with index
  • 9-4b2a1d0.3 The essence of analysis is articulation - 分析の本質は分節
  • 10-1a5 Digitizing history means explaining each fork as contingent points (the could’ve been) for the history around an idea. History is the Idea Maze, and must be created symbolically (never non-digitally nor indexically) by the individuals.
• I guess it’s better to use Opus instead of Sonnet even the former costs more token per interaction since the feedback quality is higher (20260116)
  • Charlie Munger: “When you mix raisins and turds, you’ve still got turds”