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, …
Tag: Learning
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 …
There Are No Ideas — Only Solutions
Nothing exists in a vacuum. Everything that exists does so because it relates to something, compares to something. Otherwise you can’t perceive it, can’t conceive of it. If there’s nothing to compare something to — then there’s just everything, which is nothing. It’s obviously the same with ideas. All ideas are relative. They only …
Politics Doesn’t Matter, Politics Matter
Politics won’t save you. Politics won’t solve your problems. Politics doesn’t make you a better human being. Not having a clue about politics is a virtue, rather than a vice. ….until it’s not. When politics go bad — it’s bad. When politics go bad — it can kill you. When politics go bad — …
The Falsely Humble, the Deluded Arrogant, and the Problem of Growth
-There’s what you say -There’s whether it’s true or not -There’s whether other’s find it true or not -The definition of arrogance is being very wrong when you say you’re very right -Therefore if others think you’re very wrong, and you are very confident that you’re right (and reveal it) — you are dubbed arrogant …
No, We Are Not Better Than Our Modern World
-There’s the mediocre majority -The excellent minority -And the backwards minority -I believe the whole is pushed forward by the excellent minority -The excellent minority, the heroes, the precursors, the visionaries, the saints, are miles ahead -The mediocre majority is slightly behind the average of the whole, because the whole is pushed forward by the …
Cycle Of Delusion, Pessimism, Enlightenment
It’s a cycle: -delusion, ignorance, denial -acceptance, pessimism, desperation -growth, enlightenment Examples? –Dunning-Kruger effect –Gartner’s hype cycle –Four stages of competence -and most people you know Let’s explain the cycle: DELUSION, IGNORANCE, DENIAL -Anything you’re not knowledgeable about, don’t have significant experience at — you’re basically ignorant about -Since you’re ignorant — …
You’re Forgetting Too Much
I do believe that FORGETFULNESS is the obvious natural ABSORBING BARRIER It’s just that for absolute majority of people the primary hindrances, even before memory, is simply: -not doing enough (doing in general, and doing new things, iterating) -blindness: some inborn (biases), most learned (einstellung effect, ego, sunk cost, it’s a looooong fucking list) But …