Love this. Source?
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"Be Slightly Evil" by
@vgr I think it is only available via ebook: http://a.co/20PEB6n
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Great point. but hmm, I think I'd rather be on team "deliberate improvement" than team "fuck it and let's see what happens"... in aggregate, seems like the former approach will have higher expected value
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Maybe! Here is the whole essay if you want more contextpic.twitter.com/egASUL7ITa
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Is that a polite way of saying: Burners never change their habits? Buidling and BJJ have forced me to face reality more than anything I have ever done.
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I don’t think so? No idea what a burner is or what BJJ is
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Burning man evangelist :) Brazilian Jiu Jitsu :)
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This shows a misapprehension of zen, bigtime. Zen is not about self improvement.
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Ah ok the zen stuff is just supposed to be a one off random example I think. Swap in someone going to India to learn yoga with the hope of becoming more enlightened, for example.
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Yeah that would fit better. As someone who is mildly involved in zen I am both overly sensitive to the misuse of the word and also fully aware and non judgemental about its misuse :)
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Oh man, this is a nice face-slap to show me what I really meant by the idea that focusing on your goals ensures you'll only meet the ones you already know how to meet...https://autotranslucence.wordpress.com/2018/03/30/becoming-a-magician/ …
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You fell for a narrative version of Goodhart’s law basicallyhttps://www.ribbonfarm.com/2016/06/09/goodharts-law-and-why-measurement-is-hard/ …
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The "hack" is to stumble upon something beyond the self to care about so much that we ignore the risk. A mentor once joked at me "No need to do all those self improvement stuff. Just fall deeply in love with someone" which of course is harder than it sounds...
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Man I gotta reread this book. Sounds very smart.
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I like
@vgr’s dichotomy. I see it as being between “I want to learn to program and call myself a coder” vs “I want to realize this idea I have in software” “I want to found a startup and call myself an entrepreneur” vs “I want to realize this idea I have in business”Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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v true but unfair assessment of zen ppl and their close neighbours
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Great post. The ultimate adversary to improvement is comfort. Abandoning comfort is incredibly difficult, hence the rarity of experiencing real change.
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