Optimise for Usefulness
This means that you may gain more utility by being competent (journeyman level) in 10 different topics than by spending the same amount of time to become an expert in a single topic.
Jacob Lund Fisker • Early Retirement Extreme: A philosophical and practical guide to financial independence
“I rarely have good ideas.
To overcome this limitation, I think about one topic (like habits) for an unreasonable amount of time. Then, I revise, revise, revise until only the best stuff remains. It’s slow, but it works.
You can either be a genius or you can be patient.”
To overcome this limitation, I think about one topic (like habits) for an unreasonable amount of time. Then, I revise, revise, revise until only the best stuff remains. It’s slow, but it works.
You can either be a genius or you can be patient.”
jamesclear.com • 3-2-1: On attracting luck, taking risks, and the ineffectiveness of anger | James Clear
I’m not saying there’s no such thing as genius. But if you’re trying to choose between two theories and one gives you an excuse for being lazy, the other one is probably right. Paul Graham
Once you understand the maximum power principle intuitively, it'll be quite easy to follow. In the simplest terms, it says that you can gain the maximum utility by being relatively competent in large numbers of topics by contributing a nontrivial but fairly small effort. This means that you may gain more utility by being competent (journeyman level
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