Bearings

  • Aim for the truth, build from there
  • Be comfortable with your intentions and don’t fear them being known
    • Trust your intuition. It will lead to better alignment with yourself long-term
  • Attention is scarcer than time
    • Be impatient; life is too short for “bullshit”; Aggressively ignore bullshit.
    • Move through the work; it’s not a finite stream
  • Go after your goals and don’t care about others
  • Think critically;
    • “Argue both sides, believe neither.”
    • Seek to understand, not respond
    • Submitting ideas to peer review
  • Keep your identity small
    • “the more labels you have for yourself, the dumber they make you”
    • “Always Produce” heuristic
  • “Slow is Fake” - do more.
    • Proof of interest < Proof of work
    • Doing things quickly makes you “contact with reality more often”
  • Sayes Law; Source of consumption is production not demand
    • “make up for it in volume”
    • doing as much as you can is a form of life extension
  • Simplify everything; keep thoughts and ideas simple; only add complexity when needed