From 611d1e153f42177c628930e459461f30b1f7ce9d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: osmarks Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2024 14:58:17 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] =?UTF-8?q?Edit=20=E2=80=98helpful=5Flife=5Fadvice?= =?UTF-8?q?=E2=80=99?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit --- helpful_life_advice.myco | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/helpful_life_advice.myco b/helpful_life_advice.myco index 72a65e4..4e75b6e 100644 --- a/helpful_life_advice.myco +++ b/helpful_life_advice.myco @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ * Most life advice is hopelessly overfit and/or meaningless platitudes. -* Most of the time, everyone else doing a thing is either stupid or not paying attention. If you are not stupid and are paying attention you can do literally anything, except in rare highly contested domains where people have strong incentives. See also [[https://danluu.com/p95-skill/]]. +* Most of the time, almost everyone doing a thing is either stupid or not paying attention. If you are not stupid and are paying attention you can do metaphorically anything, except in rare highly contested domains where people have strong incentives. See also [[https://danluu.com/p95-skill/]]. * Money is fungible. Time is fungible, if materially less so. This is not sufficiently appreciated. * Nothing ever happens, apart from the inevitable construction of machine gods and the posthuman technocapital singularity. * You can just do things. You do not need, and do not need to wait for: approval from your peer group; nonessential-but-nice-to-have prerequisites; next year; circumstances to be perfect; research to imply the thing is good; approval from your tribe in general. @@ -8,4 +8,5 @@ * Large organizations are hypercompetent at some things compared to an individual, but nobody has managed to design one which doesn't have dumb blind spots somewhere. They can be beaten. * Frequently check whether what you are doing is actually valuable to your goals, and whether what you think are your goals are actually what you want. * You can conveniently ignore things which you cannot affect, saving time and reducing how much time you spend annoyed. -* \ No newline at end of file +* Specialization is for insects, which are wildly successful and make up the majority of terrestrial animal biomass. +* Math(s) is very good. \ No newline at end of file