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    1.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Feb 10

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      other similar domains include stock picking, spirituality, and relationships, psychology, child-rearing, cooking a steak, etc.... all the "Serious Important Stuff" needs to have twice the amount of knowledge as everything else.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1359214964611837953 …

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      the opposite is active non-competition. e.g. a circlejerk where everyone is right even though they may be saying completely opposite things. it's like if i decided to believe in flat-earth and round-earth simultaneously to double the amount of my earth knowledge. 🙄
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    2.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Feb 10

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      the result of trying to integrate incompatible world views results in a "compromise" of heuristics and rules. it's a solid and virtuous attempt to reconcile everything. picking the "best of all worlds"https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1359517724372705287?s=20 …

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      large hierarchies of value and cults share an appetite for rule-based followers. they are like the concrete and steel with which skyscrapers can be built. their coping mechanism is perfectly suited for growth.
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    3.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Feb 10

      however, without a mental framework, it's like having 100 boxes of different christmas decorations without a tree. or like a very small tree where you spend most of your time swapping around decorations. no matter how much "effort" you put into the problem, you NEVER "solve" it

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    4.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Feb 10

      this is where depth can be more useful than breadth. depth requires creating a mental model from scratch. you have to grow the thing from seed, raise it through its teenage and young adult years, and sunset it as its time wanes. raising a pet or a plant is a similar endeavor.

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       🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Feb 10

      individuals who have personal mental models of similar height often recognize each other. e.g. a 5 star general, an elite athlete, a concert pianist, etc.... even if the specific topics are wildly different, there's mutual respect for the effort put into the tall christmas tree.

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        1.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Feb 10

          the steak and the christmas tree also point to traps around this kind of mastery. the steak trap is to read too much into something, seeing massive amounts of signal when it's mostly noise that doesn't matter. it's very hard to take 10,000 hr mastery of steak searing seriously

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        2.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Feb 10

          the christmas tree trap is to spend 10,000 hrs on something that's mostly pointless outside a social context. e.g. becoming a master designer/engineer to build the most awesome skyscraper sized tree

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        3.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Feb 10

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          the former is mastery that never gets started. "Expert Beginnerism"https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1347305828554993664 …

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          This ability to maintain a "beginner's mind" without discomfort is necessary to shift into new identities though. Otherwise there's a risk of "expert beginnerism" https://daedtech.com/how-developers-stop-learning-rise-of-the-expert-beginner/ …
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        4.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Feb 10

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          the latter is mastery that becomes a purpose unto itself and loses the plot. (e.g. "Glory unto God" that forgets the "Make life better for Life" part.)https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1303757155783176193 …

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          We adjust our shows to shove in a happy ending we don't really believe in to attract more views. Then we put on the show over and over again. We lose the plot because we never finished the plot.
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