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I have a term I use for myself called "truth in boxes", which are the truths that are so powerful that we keep them locked away in boxes because otherwise they'll force us to re-evaluate the rest of our lives. Which can be exhausting. Typically we hit "remind me later" on these
A simple but powerful truth I keep in a box is "sleep is the bottleneck limiting your brain's performance". Understanding this intellectually is easy; rearchitecting the rest of your life to accommodate it is hard. I know it's stupid https://t.co/DDQvEfwaJ9
This blogpost is 3 years old and I'm still circling nervously around my truths https://t.co/DwOv51fhlr https://t.co/Y9IKt4CnLi
this feels related https://t.co/Y87LIOxYjh
Eg of something that I believe to be true but it’s something I haven’t done very much about bc of all the restructuring and reorienting it requires https://t.co/ZEl0YeYfcU
a crazy thing i'm realizing as i go through my todo lists is that the # of things I come across that have potentially high-value is larger than I can meaningfully process... ... so I actually have to disregard high-value opportunities in order to sustain a high-value process
rearchitecting is hard, even when you’re trying to reorganize around a simpler, better principle https://t.co/ZTjjefYU4q
It took 50yrs for factories to transition from steam power to electric power, even though it was cleaner, safer, more efficient. Why? Existing systems were optimized for the former - you can't just swap A for B, you also need to change the architecture, production line, workers
We resist change even when the end-result of change is likely relief – because the *process* of change is painful https://t.co/A7QeTYUWI0
Conversation with wife: an existential crisis is really a sort of expectation crisis- it’s the horror of falling from the height of your expectations, down to the reality you actually already inhabit. It’s interesting to consider that staying up takes more effort than coming down