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 …
Tag: Work
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 …
Extreme Urgency Is A Form Of Creativity
Extreme urgency is a form of creativity It’s creativity applied to SOLVING the problem… faster We get more creative when the problem is more hard We create a solution That’s what creativity is for, as far as I’m concerned We don’t customarily think of speeding something up as a CREATIVE process We think …
Judge People By Their WORST
Someone’s BEST can be result of many random factors: –LUCK -rare FLASH of brilliance -temporary MOTIVATION -even strategic effort to impress, get a job, etc Someone’s worst is far less volatile: -it at very least speaks of someone’s MINIMUM STANDARD -it’s the BEST for predicting the future — as it gives a RELIABLE BASELINE …
Knowledge Is One Objective Edge You Can Have
Knowledge is overrated Knowledge will not redeem you, knowledge will not be your salvation And knowledge won’t do shit for you, you have to DO things yourself Knowledge is UNDERRATED Knowledge is underrated too Most people are ignorant cunts Most people are incompetent dilettantes KNOWLEDGE HAS VALUE Knowledge is USEFUL I wrote …
Engineering = Practical and Rigorous = Useful Mental Models
Mathematics is perfectly rigorous — but nevertheless too abstract Spirituality, psychology, are abstract yet tangible — alas hardly rigorous Engineering is the perfect marriage of RIGOROUS yet PRACTICAL The world is messy Some of this messiness is impossible to make sense of Those that pretend to be making sense of it are typically delusional, …
Minimising decisions is Idiotic
Minimising decisions is like avoiding moving to conserve energy I can’t believe anyone can seriously believe this nonsense Does decision fatigue exist? Surely Does fatigue exist? Surely When you run a marathon — you may not want to still try do to 10k steps. You may want to minimise it. It may make you …
Ruthless With The Finite, Boundless With The Infinite
If it doesn’t help you — it harms you If it’s either benefit or no benefit, benefit or harm, progress or regress — then NEUTRALITY doesn’t exist And if neutrality doesn’t exist — then neither does NEUTRAL ATTITUDE, does it? It’s either positive attitude then — or negative It’s either great time — or …
Why Do We Ignore The Fucking Market?
Market gives you all the information of WHAT TO DO (FREE MARKET, obviously. If it’s not free, than instead of reality all you learn is what someone wants to believe) Look around you Look at stuff you own Stuff you use Stuff you buy YOU VALUE THAT STUFF Now you already know a little …