There’s the known the logical, the understandable, the measurable, the objective, the rational, etc. And there’s the unknown, the inscrutable, the subjective, the irrational, etc Our idea of the world is obviously a blend of the two Concepts which are logical, which are coherent, which are sensible, Observations which suggest a generalisation with greater …
Tag: Learning
Outcomes vs Methods, Imitation vs Realness
There’s the OUTCOME you want to attain. And there’s HOW you attain that outcome. The OUTCOME is concrete . But the “HOW” is more vague The “HOW” is sometimes clear and sometimes utterly obscure, and usually partly clear and partly obscure. To get the OUTCOME you are looking for the “HOW”. You follow, IMITATE …
There’s No Confidence, There’s No Humility — Only Action
It matters not what your ability is What matters is if you understand the extent of your ability, your competence, your knowledge “I know I know nothing” “All I want to know where I’m going to die so I’ll never go there” “To know what you know and what you do not know, that …
Value and Forgetfulness
Data has value. Just like gold has value. Data is stored. Just like gold is stored. We retrieve the data from the store in order to access it’s value. Just like we retrieve the gold from our safe in order to sell it and cash out on it’s value. Now, If you had forgotten …
We Underestimate Learning Ability, Overestimate Changing Capacity
We underestimate the extent to which we can learn. But we also overestimate the degree to which others can change. Intelligence makes you think faster, comprehend faster, learn faster. But if knowledge is fixed — then it makes no difference how fast you have learned it. Once you learned it — it’s learned. You …
Multithreading (And Learning How To Think)
Multithreading teaches you about all successful reasoning, single-threading or multi-threading the same. Successful reasoning is the same as successful travelling — it’s about successfully efficiently steadily getting from point A to point Z. A single thread has the purpose of going from point A to Z. Running multiple threads simultaneously means you’re getting multiple …
If You’re Not Learning All The Time — You’re An Ignorant Moron
We live in a complex world. To navigate in a complex system you need a detailed map. To navigate in this complex world you need a detailed understanding. To get a detailed understanding — you should be LEARNING ALL THE TIME. I’m usually very critical of the professor, the theoretician, the bookworm, the egghead, …
Be More Imitative AND More Original
You should be more imitative AND more original How’s that possible? Isn’t it mutually exclusive? It’s possible if you’re poor at imitating It’s possible if you’re poor at being original It’s exactly what happens: You call it originality — but you’re just poor at imitating Or you call it imitating and “doing what …
You’re CLUELESS About Risk Management
We all have some innate sense of risk-management. E.g. FEAR. And then we also have plenty learned methods of risk management. E.g. DIVERSIFICATION Alas we keep failing our “risk-management” in the modern world FEAR fails most of the time because most our modern “threats” are NOT mortal. Therefore you actually SHOULD take more …
I like when I can’t predict what someone will say
I play the “predicting game“ That includes men I ask myself if I can predict what someone will say I like it when I can’t predict what someone will say Makes it interesting Makes me learn something I can’t predict what someone will say because it’s either: -nonsense -or I’m too stupid/ignorant …