Mind ability = Improvable = 1. Knowledge level * 2. Thinking speed * 3. Synthesis ability — Cloud Streaks

Paul Graham put it this way: “A good writer doesn’t just think, and then write down what he thought, as a sort of transcript. A good writer will almost always discover new things in the process of writing.”

As a novice most things are boring. As a master almost everything is interesting!

One strategy for an interesting life: learn lots about lots!

We need the culture to shift from asking “How intelligent someone is?” to asking “ how much upgrading one has done to one's brain?”