Curiosity

Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t. Your job is to discover what it is, and it won’t be obvious. Bill Nye.

• Never stop learning, practice rational thinking and internalize mental models and other concepts that will help you think more effectively.
• Knowledge is a powerful tool. The more you feel like a noob, the better. Feeling stupid now is better than feeling stupid in 10 years.
• Reality has a surprising amount of detail. Knowing more about the world makes you enjoy it more. Understanding how music is made increases the pleasure you get from music.
  • Real things exist in essentially infinite resolution. Looking closer always reveals more, and it’s often not what you’d expect.
• Do stuff! Whatever it is you work on, is worthwhile as long as you share your learnings. In the worst case, if your ideas don’t work out, the community will learn why that approach doesn’t make sense.
  • Remix ideas. Ideas are impacted by evolution. The most useful ones survive and evolve. Innovation is the product of combinations of ideas. Everything is a remix!
  • Fail early and often. There is only one guaranteed way you won’t get something you want, and that’s not to pursue it. Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
  • If you think you’re going to regret not doing something, you should probably do it. Most people regret far more things they didn’t do than things they did do.
• Find your way around the inertia of helpless mentality. You probably have control of more things than you think! Knowing this fact changes the way you see your circle of control.
• Practice hunting for bugs! A bug is anything in life that needs improvement. Even if something is going well, if you can imagine it going better, there’s a bug.
• Knowing what we really want is hard and takes effort. Explore yourself and your values.
• Experiment more! It is very very easy to do what comes naturally and never deviate from that. Break the pattern.
• Consume content that is hard to produce. If the producer can spam the content, it is probably not worth your time. E.g: audiobooks vs podcasts.