If you have a healthy information diet, it's not this question. Just follow your curiosity and life forces.
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that's what got us all into this mess we're in lately, too many smart people doing that
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I think Richard Hamming's essay "you and your research" offers interesting guidance here (h/t
@paulg). To paraphrase a great essay, Hamming advises that you start by asking "what are the most important problems in my field." http://www.paulgraham.com/hamming.html -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1zDuOPkMSw … This is one of a series of videos of a class that Hamming offered at the Naval Post Graduate School in the mid 90s. Can't recommend them highly enough.
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How music impacts our creativity
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Easy. Key to think about things which increase your capacity for and efficiency of thinking, so as to benefit from compounding, and thus gain the ability to perform exponentially more thinking across your lifespan
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Examples: the time to figure out your optimal-performing diet, experiment with with biohackery, nootropics and eugergoics, polyphasic sleep, etc is in your early 20s. (Far less optimal to wait until 50 and then desperately seek to regain your lost edge)
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Bridging the gap between logical truth and statistical truth.
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optimize for amusement, surprise, interestingness
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There’s lots of big problems to think about that have small impacts but one main one that has the ability to change everything and that’s dark energy
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Sounds like a joke, but: if you can understand what makes up dark energy it’s possible also you can understand how to switch it to light. And doing so you eliminate all scarcity forever. The skeleton key for human problems.
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