There’s the medium — and there’s the substance. There are words — and there’s their meaning. The meaning is the point, isn’t it? The meaning is indeed the point — however the meaning can not, and should not, be separated from the medium This is because the medium is the only proof of …
Tag: Understanding
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 …
Self-Sceptical
You want to be self-sceptical “You should be sceptical about your own beliefs” This is absolutely basic and has been talked of over and over again You should be sceptical not just of your beliefs. That is easy. You should be sceptical of every THOUGHT which emerges in you And you should be …
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, …
Explaining vs Knowing
There’s explicit knowledge and implicit knowledge Explicit knowledge is knowledge which can be readily passed, written down, coded, recorder, verbalised, conveyed… Implicit knowledge is knowledge which is difficult to convey, difficult to teach, and often difficult even to be aware of (e.g. try writing instructions on how to WALK properly, as a human being, or …
MISCOMMUNICATION IS CHEATING
Humans have many explicit AND IMPLICIT ways in which they communicate Likewise humans have different kinds of relationships (with closer relationships typically necessitating superior communication) The absolute fundamentals of communication are deeply wired: -you convey your feelings with your bearing -and others can feel how you feel -and human can always SENSE their place …
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 …