Lifestyle Philosophy

To Know What You Want, Take It Apart

Knowing what you want is extremely complicated Because most things you don’t have — you don’t have for a reason That reason is the cost And that cost itself often comprises multiple variables And of course the very value, the reward — often comprises multiple variables too   It is useful then to reason from …

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Lifestyle Philosophy

Fake Acceptance; The Problem vs. The Attitude

There’s something in you, around you, near you, about you, that’s LESS than desirable   Maybe that undesirability is clear — maybe less clear Maybe it’s justified, maybe it’s a fair trade-off — maybe not   But your attitude to that thing is what really matters   There are many attitudes to take   The …

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Lifestyle

Better to Do Too Much Than Too Little

-you’re ungrateful -you’re greedy -you’re distracted but other than that, you’re not doing enough, you’re not active enough not ALIVE enough   Setting aside motivation, and likely poison of delusion in it, setting aside frenzy, restlessness, compulsiveness, distractability DOING MORE is better than doing less   directionally it’s right doing LESS is closer to death …

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Lifestyle

Is It About The Journey?

Let’s be nihilistic and assume that all that you will have acquired, built, developed — is inevitably going to shit Because you die, because those that inherit it will die too, and because those that come afterwards won’t give a shit, your contribution will have became a drop in the ocean, finite you vs infinite …

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Lifestyle Philosophy

Always Run Top-Down And Bottom-Up

Top-down is a plan of how the WHOLE is going to work Bottom-up is how you intend to EXECUTE various subparts   By nature top subsumes the bottom, but it’s only at the bottom that you explore it in all practical nuance (i.e. literally execute). And only once you executed the constituent parts — do …

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Lifestyle Philosophy

Winning Alone Makes You Clueless

To approximate reality — you must measure it Measuring is done AGAINST something. It’s all relative E.g. cat is small next to a wolf, but large next to a mouse   If you only win — you’re measuring only against mice Which is great You get the information what you’re LARGER than But you get …

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Philosophy

FAITH Is A Proxy For Reason to Act

FAITH is a proxy for reason — to expose yourself to UNKNOWN   You rarely have all the data, all the reasons to do something Therefore you can’t perfectly REASONABLY articulate why you should DO something different, try something new   I mean, of course you don’t have all the data about the unknown That …

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