Aging is like scaling. You have to re-solve every significant life problem every 10 years. Very annoying.
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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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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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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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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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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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Can you elaraborate a little on the 'taste problem' part please? -a curious 41yo
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