general life advice
- Make your default RSVP a Yes. Bias towards action when on the edge of decision.
- A sudden 10% increase in productivity means you are doing something new right. A sudden 10x increase means you probably stopped doing something old wrong.
- It costs you nothing to be nice.
- People will give you advice. Some pieces of advice will conflict directly with each other. It is up to you to discern what advice is right for you and understand why you received it. Form your own opinions and beware echo chambers.
- Consider giving yourself a geis. Self-imposed rules make you powerful under constraints e.g. a blind person has better hearing. Deep work Find your focus [todo]
- Complacency is a vice. Familiarity breeds contempt.
- Be non-committal (scheduling, judgements, job)
- Don't be non-committal (relationships, passions, job)
- Escape your local maxima
- Comparison is the thief of joy
- Bad outcomes != bad decisions
- Attention is all you need
- Live in the present moment
- Disagree more
- Be humble
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essays you should read in no particular order
- https://www.approachwithalacrity.com/101-things-for-my-past-self/
- https://milan.cvitkovic.net/writing/things_youre_allowed_to_do/
- https://jsomers.net/blog/speed-matters
- https://taylor.town/10-minutes
- https://www.brasstacks.blog/getting-much-less-slow-at-basic-mental-arithmetic/
- https://www.telelib.com/authors/J/JoyceJames/prose/finneganswake/index.html
- https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/what-is-man-that-thou-art-mindful
- https://sive.rs/htl23
Last updated 2026-02-08