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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 24 Sep 2019
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      Aging is like scaling. You have to re-solve every significant life problem every 10 years. Very annoying.

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 24 Sep 2019
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      The anti-aliasing is particularly exhausting since you don’t really get this till you’re 40. So when you grumbletweet about it, 20s/30s people earnestly give you what the think is lifetime guarantee advice you somehow miraculously missed learning.

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 24 Sep 2019
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      If you’re 40+ and habits you developed I early 20s still work for you, I’ve got some grim news for you: somehow you’ve managed to stay protected enough you haven’t grown. It’s not an eternal truth you’ve stumbled upon, it’s arrested development.

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        2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 24 Sep 2019
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          Example: Productivity. In your 20s is largely a motivation problem. You’re under- or overmotivated. Fix that with One Weird Trick and raw energy will get you Young Buck wins. In your 30s it’s a skills problem. Fix with a system or two and you’re good. 40s: It’s a taste problem

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 24 Sep 2019
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          Example 2: Meaning In your 20s, it’s usually a self-awareness and relationships problem. Look inwards, look inbetween. Meaning: Done. In your 30s, it is largely an IQ-EQ problem. You just think-feel your way through. In 40s, it appears to turn into an energy problem afaict

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        4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 24 Sep 2019
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          And solving these problems is not really optional if you have a normal mix of good/bad fortune. At a normal rate of life entropy increase, the cost of the previous decade’s solutions is unsustainable. The only way out — arrested development through luck — is a curse of resources.

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        5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 24 Sep 2019
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          Realizing this is why I pretty much stopped writing posts that even gesture at Advice on Basic Life Problems. Previously, I was ambivalent about it but occasionally succumbed to the temptation to at least write elliptically about them without descending into unironic advice.

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        6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 24 Sep 2019
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          Generalized advice is a genre of Noble Lies for 20s and 30s set, with a half life of 3-5 years. There’s a chance it will work and do good before the limitations bite back. Past 40, generalized advice has a half life of like 1 month. Decays to useless in a quarter, noise in a year

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        7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 24 Sep 2019
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          Exception: mediocrity advice. The advice I doled out in this thread is not actually in jest. If it seems that way to you, Interesting Times lie ahead for you.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1173065364374032384?s=21 …

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          Free mediocrity advice for the next 15 minutes. One-tweet way-of-mediocrity suggestions for your one-tweet life challenges. Limit 1 question per slacker-seeker
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