“Once you’re good at some technology, when you look at the world you see dotted outlines around the things that are missing.” – Paul Graham (source)
E.g., if you understand math behind cryptography, you’ll know which systems are bullshit.
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- 1-1a2e9c Culture is technology means 1-1a2e9d Technology is culture
- 10-2g1 Culture is an implicit theory for its members. It dictates what to look at and how they reason about the world.
- 13-2.3 Learning is about changing your behavior
- 何をできるか (作れるか) が変わると色々変わる
- E.g., Claude Code → I started to revisit my app ideas (because they’re now all hackable within realistic timeline)
- What’s the implication for habit formation in general?revisit
- <> 2-1a1a3c Belong where your desired habits are the norm
- <> 5-1b4c1b You can easily replace the self-discipline with the four laws of habit formation - (1) make it obvious, (2) make it attractive, (3) make it easy, and (4) make it satisfying
- <> 9-4b3e3f The Two-Minute Rule - ‘When you start a new habit, it should take less than two minutes to do’
- 何をできるか (作れるか) が変わると色々変わる