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10/ Some people go through life never leveling-up this way. Their insight compression ratio is about the same at 22 as at 42.
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11/ Insight compression ratio is how much raw experience/learning (the boring story told with low self-awareness) can be compressed
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12/ A boring tale of a boring vacation told with the obligatory accompanying boring photos has compression ratio ~3 or 4 maybe
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13/ OTOH, a truly thoughtful person with a few staircase jumps under belt might tell the story of a complex project with 10:1 compression
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14/ So appearance of wisdom is mostly high-EQ acting accompanied by unchanged pithiness talking that is aphoristic because of low endurance
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15/ I've had maybe 2-3 staircase-jumps in my insight-density over 20y. About 90% of my compression ratio increases happened over ~10 days
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16/ These days I tweet more, post short things on Facebook more. Longer blog posts are rarer, book ideas seem like impossible mountains.
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17/ But I have NOT gotten pithier. My tweets have about the same compression ratio as my 4000 word blog posts. Last staircase jump was ~2006
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18/ So be skeptical of appearance of wisdom. It's 99% an act masking shrinking horizons, falling cognitive endurance, static insightfulness
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19/ One of the unspoken secret covenants among people of roughly the same age is to not call bullshit on each other's wisdom posturing
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