For bonus points, you’ll realize that you develop new layers to the understanding of the same trivial bit of advice over the years. It stays the same but you discover the nuance, contours, reasons it is easy to discard in the moment, etc.
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And then you repeat it to someone and they say “lol that is obvious” and you wonder if you know the advice well enough yet to correct them on how not obvious it is going to be for their next 10 years.
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Which parts are those? Japanese parts, perhaps? Googling that phrase and variations turns up nothing interesting.
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There’s a tribe of folks who call themselves rationalists. That’s a deep hole of decidedly uncertain utility to go down. That said, I feel like explicitly noticing when one is surprised is instrumentally useful and a novel insight of that community.
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I had that exact experience a few days ago, reflecting on something
@andrewchen mentioned once about using blogging to position yourself as a thought leader on a topic before it gets bigThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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