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Ooh, this is a fun one. Let me try. Just gonna wing it. 1. The heat death of the universe. Realizing that there is a universal death ahead reinforces the preciousness of every moment. We are all tracings in the sand, so don’t trade a miserable life for a temporary legacy https://t.co/O24uHkih4n
2. Bottlenecks. The only meaningful improvement you can make in any system is at its tightest bottleneck. Progress at the second tightest bottleneck is still constrained by the tightest bottleneck, and it can actually make things worse, because of congestion. (@fortelabs remix)
3. Different people have different models of reality. Understanding this is a powerful frustration-release valve. A lot of the time, we aren’t in conflict - our models are. We‘ve each generalized from different assumptions, experiences https://t.co/wCjbstZLy9
People typically have high-res models of their own lives and lower-res models of other people’s. We are all born clueless with incredibly low-res models of the world - then we tweak and upgrade our models. Different people do this to different degrees depending on many variables
4. Social reality is a Game Of Signals. I grew up very averse to this game, but have learned that there’s no way to opt-out, so we might as well get good at it. Everything we do or say (or not-do or not-say) is a signal https://t.co/p5zp6oOJHd
42. "It's taking me a lot of time to process precisely which thoughts are useful to express, and how to best express them." This is a game of dogwhistles – I'm trying to signal my interestingness to interesting people without saying something I'd regret https://t.co/53xzTp34fP
5. Assholes - ie selfish people who take advantage of the goodness/neutrality of others - are a real, serious problem, and benign groups of people are generally terrible at handling them (because it seems rude & harsh) https://t.co/cN9lk79fSo
6. Radical Candor https://t.co/YShR0e3xrf
7. Contrary to popular belief, you CAN be too prepared. This is because preparation comes at a cost, and you have limited time/energy. Meta-insight here: be clear about the costs of everything (but not too clear if it costs too much! 😂) https://t.co/NKjgqeEUnC
8. Civilisation is an absurd, bureaucratic prison-zoo-farm-circus. Everything from clocks and calendars to nation-states and corporations is an elaborate system of humans regulating humans. You can’t really break free from this jail, sorry 😐 https://t.co/T47GfO8sln
9. “The hardest thing is managing your psychology. Everything else is just pushing buttons and pulling levers.” Related: it’s often easier and more interesting in the short run to self-flagellate (“oh I’m so terrible”) than to actually take action to make things better.
10. Precision. The more precise you are abt what you want, the easier it becomes to get it, and for others to help you. Lots of people actually LOVE helping others if it’s something finite and easy to do; what people are averse to is having to be responsible for other people
Encore: Mean Girls https://t.co/fw6yhURqHJ
Oh look, I have 30 more 😂 https://t.co/o6VSWe8AqE