the world is big
“Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
it’s just math
when I was at 50 or 500 followers if I said I was going to have 50,000, people wouldve said I’m arrogant. (I didn’t say ex
write your memoirs
(2024nov update/comment: while doing some recategorizing, it struck me that this post fit in almost every single category I ha
things I learned from my ex-boss Dinesh
in the 5+ years I worked for my ex-boss Dinesh (@dineshraju), he constantly would ask me about my goals & desired outcomes
don’t be gullible
Seen two separate things recently on the TL about how substack is a scam and how NFTs are a scam and my personal read is that
systems thinking
To me, “systems thinking” is just “thinking”. If one’s thinking does not naturally lead them to
problems are solvable: define, solicit, integrate
✱ (2020feb29 thread) I don’t usually think of myself as a very clear-headed person… until people come to me with the
troubleshooting arrogance
When I was a teenager, the dominant criticism my closest friends had of me was that I was too arrogant, and they were right. I
risk
Dec2024: I think this post is downstream of it’s just math post to be updated over time 2024oct19— the question I have
⚔️ optimize for survival
The big lesson of survivor bias is that you should optimize for being a survivor. You can’t win if you lose – so learn
🍀 the 4 kinds of luck
“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.” – apocryphal quote typically attributed to Seneca I&#
project management
(2024dec12) A couple of friends have told me that they found the project management section of my book Introspect to be incred
thinking
Hey, friends. So for today’s adlib, I’m gonna try and do 2 separate videos back to back or maybe I’ll just d
👓 different people have different mental models
People typically have high-res models of their own lives and lower-res models of other people’s. We are all born clueless wi
📺 we turn our lives into mostly-predictable sitcoms
(The following is from a conversation with a friend, after an acquaintance told us about feeling suicidal) it’s interesting
🚦 constraints
I’ve written a lot about constraints over the years, and this blogpost strikes me as the best “master switchboard&
👀 when arguing, strive to understand context
— 1. When arguing, seek to understand context — [Published 2016] Roughly between ages 13 and 23 I was thoroughly convinced