Life is composed of details so does everything, of course (whole comprises of parts), but LIFE is much more about the details, because LIFE is lived IN THE MOMENT i.e. life experience is IN THE MOMENT, not in abstract (so you can have the most glorious life story, the most glorious “life outcome” …
Tag: Work
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 …
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 …
Broad, then Depth, then OPPORTUNISM
-Let’s define broad as “the whole” -Let’s define narrow as the smallest division -Let’s consider “normal” breadth as the kind of breadth of subject matters that most people engage -Let’s consider “normal” narrow as the kind of focus that most people achieve in their single career First let’s acknowledge that those two are not …
Creation Transcends The Creator, And They Share VERY LITTLE
Beauty, ideals, virtue, art, creation — transcend the artist, the creator, the artisan and the engineer, the philosopher, the object Not merely as an idealised ideal, which we can’t touch Of course the ideal is our vision, then we merely strive to get closer to it, but can never reach it The former is …
Engineer Your Models Of Reality, Or Stay Stupid
If you ever studied anything complex — you know it is necessary to gradually develop one’s understanding complex like physics, math, respectable chess ranking, Even less complex subjects you don’t learn overnight, like driving a car Why would your own ideas be any different? Ideas and opinions and views Why would they magically develop …
do it MEDIOCRE vs PROPER vs EXCELLENT
Let’s consider the stages from SHIT to EXCELLENCE: poorly, mediocre, properly, excellently (robustly), too well POORLY will fuck you up almost immediately -the wheels will fall off -you’ll be late by 3h -MULTIPLE things will magically go wrong -everything is of obvious poor quality visible to the naked eye -unpleasant in taste -really dangerous, …
Act Like God, View Yourself as Scum
Act like God View yourself as no more than scum View yourself as no one, as a scum Scum that no one cares about Scum that people only deign to look at because they’ve still some benefit to obtain from you An animal to devour, an animal to mate with Act like god …
What is Urgency, Actually?
What is urgency, actually? Is it desire? Desire to have something as soon as possible? Is it effort? Incurring dramatic effort, in order to get it done faster? Is it prioritisation? Pulling all resources into that single undertaking first? Is it stress? A necessary, painful token validating one’s seriousness? A chicken …
Build Great Business or Help Altruistically — No Middle Ground
There are mostly only two modes: –You help yourself and others by BUILDING something that they will VOLUNTARILY pay you for — because it benefits them.. and you benefit from the revenue -Or you just want to help others — therefore you… just do There’s VERY LITTLE gradient in between those two The first …