1-1a6 To live is to live like a detective
1-1c6a1b Your ability to detect surprises will get better, and you will never be short of them
9-4b Writing generates ideas
9-4b3 Writing is acting
3-1c3d Problems should be well defined and should be actionable
9-2a3 Be long volatility with people
Crazy connections?
If you live abductively, if you actively look for surprises, you will be able to form objectively better virtual-reality
3-1b1b Problems encountered during projects are valuable. The harder they are the better.
1-2g New theory is constrained in terms of what it can say, since it must either be consistent with existing theories, or contradict them but address the problems thereby raised
9-4c Someone who never writes has no fully formed ideas about anything nontrivial