Avoid hyperbolic discounting
Hyperbolic discounting makes us favor the now, but compounding teaches us that exponential growth is driven by time. Long-term focus turns small, consistent efforts into outsized rewards.
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Are we are not communicating or thinking?
Common LLM uses:
- Generating verbose text to defer writing
- Summarizing verbose text to defer reading
Both hint at a shared struggle with communication, a desire to avoid deep thinking, or both.
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Strategy
Strategy answers what you aren’t going to do, roadmaps answer what you are going to do
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The nothings are all that matter
Most of events will seem inconsequential at the outset, but by chance be all that matters. Nothing and everything matters all at once, all of the time.
arbitrary, tiny changes and seemingly random, happenstance events can divert our career paths, rearrange our relationships, and transform how we see the world
— Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters, Brian Klaas
Some of the biggest and most consequential changes in history happened because of a random, unforeseeable, thoughtless encounter or decision that led to magic or mahem.
— Same as Ever, Morgan Housel
A few pursuits will generate most of your happiness.
A few people will meet most of your needs.
A few projects will result in most of your success.
Our lives are controlled not by what individual forces are acting, but on what’s left over in the balance.
— Storm in a Teacup, Helen Czerski