“To increase your curiosity is to indulge it, by investigating things you’re interested in. Curiosity is unlike most other appetites in this respect: indulging it tends to increase rather than to sate it. Questions lead to more questions.” – Paul Graham
Fractal curiosity
Next:
- 5-1b1b1a1 Things can become easier the more complexity you have (Network effects = Power-law)
- 5-1b1b1a1a Pareto principle (or law of the vital few) - 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes
- 5-1b1b1b Be more than what you are supposed to be. You have to be surprising.
- 5-1b1b2a If you follow the Fun Criterion, you’ll be good at things
Related:
- 2-1a7a Curiosity (i.e., the Fun Criterion) leads you to wealth, because wealth is knowledge
- 2-1a7b Work in a field you have both a natural aptitude for and deep interest in. It should become increasingly interesting as you learn more about it.
- 2-1b2b5 Know the correlations between your bets. Holy grail is fifteen or so uncorrelated bets.
- Fractal asset allocation (barbell strategy)
- 2-1b2b5.1 Brian Armstrong’s Rule of 70-20-10
- Fractal TODOs