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*. 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.
*. Type faster.
*. You can conveniently ignore things which you cannot affect, saving time and reducing how much time you spend annoyed. If you don't like it, become God.
*. Unfortunately, those things will likely not be fixed (see also [[https://www.theonion.com/smart-qualified-people-behind-the-scenes-keeping-ameri-1819571706]]).
*. Unfortunately, those things will likely not be fixed. See also [[https://www.theonion.com/smart-qualified-people-behind-the-scenes-keeping-ameri-1819571706]].
*. Specialization is for insects, which are wildly successful and make up the majority of terrestrial animal biomass.
*. Math(s) is very good.
*. Often, the last few details of a solution take up the majority of the time. If you want to, you can probably ignore them or write a good-enough heuristic.
*. Practice makes you better at things, but so does randomly being talented for no obvious reason.
*. In situations with discrete win/loss cutoffs you may be better off increasing variance rather than expectation.
*. If you predict that you will do/believe a thing in some circumstance, and predict that that circumstance will happen, update all the way and do/believe the thing now.
*. If you predict that you will do/believe a thing in some circumstance, and predict that that circumstance will happen, update all the way and do/believe the thing now.
*. When deciding on a course of action in an uncertain situation, commit to something and do it properly rather than inefficiently trying to handle every possible scenario. See also [[https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FMkQtPvzsriQAow5q/the-correct-response-to-uncertainty-is-not-half-speed]].