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Ergodic systems, in other words, exhibit a particularly safe and comforting sort of statistical regularity.

takes years of practice and effort to get good at identifying blind spots in ourselves and then expressing the affected emotions appropriately.

There’s a theory in evolutionary biology called Fisher’s Fundamental Theorem of Natural Selection. It’s the idea that variance equals strength, because the more diverse a population is, the more chances it has to come up with new traits that can be selected for. No one can know what traits will be useful; that’s not how evolution works. But if you

When we focus on novelty, we lose sight of behavioral outcomes. And while using validated pressures to inform our designs can help guard against the natural tendency to pursue interventions that feel unique, they aren’t a guarantee; just as data can be used to justify bad business decisions, pressures can be used to justify bad interventions.

An audience is the right people paying attention to you.

we mean that Mark Manson doesn’t care about adversity in the face of his goals, he doesn’t care about pissing some people off to do what he feels is right or important or noble. We

One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Nature has no use for organisms, variations, or groups that cannot reproduce abundantly.

6. YOU’RE ALMOST THERE. HAVE YOU ADDED SOME “LITTLE BETS”?