“Give me a lever long enough and a place to stand, and I will move the earth.” — Archimedes
E.g., summary first over reading the source first: the former usually implies less chance of overly committing to something that’s not really worth your time.
Related:
- 2-1a6c5 ‘Randomness’ is the opportunity to reason abductively
- 5-1b1b1a Power-law curiosity - be professionally curious about a few topics and idly curious about many more
- RUL3 - Invert, always invert
Next:
- 2-3b0 Knowledge creation is not a function of time
- 2-3b1 ‘Sensitivity to fairness’ - What is fair changes
- 2-3c ‘Surface area’ - Manage your exposure to volatilities
Related:
- Against sunk cost fallacy:
- 2-1a0c1 ‘Failure comes from a failure to imagine failure’
- 安田隆夫: 「挑戦と撤退はセット」
- 2-1a1a3 ‘Availability heuristic’ - We easily recall what is salient, important, frequent, and recent
- 3-1c3c3a1 Don’t be so attached to anything because almost everything is contingent. Assume no self.
- E.g., vibe coding lets you build more stuff because there will be less emotional attachment to the products in general
- 2-1a0c1 ‘Failure comes from a failure to imagine failure’
- 1-2f1b3a Deutsch - ‘Nor is a person capable of making progress merely by virtue of being willing to drop a theory when it is refuted; one must also be seeking a better explanation of the relevant phenomena. That is the scientific frame of mind.‘
- 3-1c3c3a Realize that having invested time in something doesn’t make it good. There is no necessary correlation between the time you put in and its usefulness.
- 3-1c3c3a2 Time spent doesn’t mean much
Contradictory?