“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
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- 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
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- 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
By definition, you wouldn’t know the attack vector of the opposing arguments, when you form an argument—you’d always have blind spot. Luckily, the reality is one and all connected. Why it helps to be curious.
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