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“Take a simple idea and take it seriously.”
—Charlie Munger
Doing a few sets of pushups each day is a simple idea.
Saving at least 10% of your income is a simple idea.
Sending Thank You notes is a simple idea.
...but most people don't take simple ideas seriously.
—Charlie Munger
Doing a few sets of pushups each day is a simple idea.
Saving at least 10% of your income is a simple idea.
Sending Thank You notes is a simple idea.
...but most people don't take simple ideas seriously.
James Clear • Highlights From jamesclear.com
“It shouldn’t be like this [illegible/complex/chaotic]”
But not only is illegibility an acceptable trait of optimal systems. It is a trait that all systems optimized against complex realities will tend towards. The real world is complex and extremely high-dimensional. When we see a successful company that’s chaotic, we shouldn’t think: “wow, it succeeded despite chaos!”, we should think: “Of course! This is what a complex, optimized system looks like: an illegible forest.”
Most people understand that a forest "doesn't exist" in the sense that humans made up that word (the trees exist in a concrete way that the "forest" does not. Same with a "lake" vs water etc)
It just occurred to me that "a person" is more like a forest than a tree
Defendertwitter.comCosmic Harmony and Agency
Meta on self and agency
This is one of the greatest displays of the creative process I’ve seen.
It perfectly illustrates something many of my favorite artists have described.
When you go to the studio, Mayer was asked, what do you do to generate ideas?
“Well, I don’t always do it,” he... See more
Billy Oppenheimerx.comfor an idea to shape society it must be communicated. There are many technical challenges to communicating ideas, and one of the more important ones is applying a gears-level understanding of how people evaluate ideas.