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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 4 Oct 2018
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      8/ There are THREE ways to fail at this. a) Thinking you can be Great Minded all the time. b) Trying to be Great Minded on low latency information diet (upper left red box) c) Trying to consume high-latency information diet without aspiring to more than small-minded thoughts

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      9/ The first failure mode manifests as trying to consume only information at your target level. Like only reading Economist and journal papers and trying to produce in institutional modes. This will fail. You need some information diet input from ALL levels to work at ANY level

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 4 Oct 2018
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      10/ The second failure mode manifests as saving ALL your time for Great Thoughts. Even Hamming only saved Friday afternoons for Great Thoughts. Give yourself permission to inhabit any mind level from small-minded shitposter to philosophy book reader/writer

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 4 Oct 2018
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      11/ The final failure mode is trying to keep up with information at all latencies. Reading every trending tweet and every bestselling big history book and everything in between, but ALL at the same low level (ie as people gossip or play-by-play event tracking). Unsustainable.

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      12/ Each failure mode is an information diet that leads to patterns of betting that fail to deliver a positive return long-term. It's not addictive FOMOing that kills you, but not being able to translate the information consumption choices you're making into winning bets.

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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 4 Oct 2018
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      13/ The stable consumption/production positions are along what I've labeled the turnpike (a term borrowed from economics). You can move up and down along the turnpike. Get off the turnpike and your bad returns will start to kill you.

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      14/ The challenge in executing this turnpike roadmap strategy is that your mind-level chooses you rather than you choosing mind-level. If you choose to be small minded today, that's good. If you find you are always small minded and can't ever break up into mediocre, that's bad

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      15/ This is a bit like weight training. You have to increase the weights slowly and perhaps train your attention to exhaustion a bit. If you're in small mind zone and can only consume/produce tweets, try an essay. See how far you get. Strength-train attention from 10s to 10min.

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      16/ Note that this atrophying of attention and latency limits will happen REGARDLESS of whether evil designers are trying to hack your attention and keep you phase-locked into their preferred 10s latency information loop. Their designs are in fact the LOAD you're training against

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