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by mock-possum
1071 days ago
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> real life is not about solving puzzles He says, before laying out the outline of the puzzle and giving suggestions on how to go about solving it Everything can be about solving puzzles if you let it. Given enough time and patience you can understand anything - the only interesting question is, how to you decide what to focus on? Navigating life is absolutely an exercise in puzzle solving, at every step you know where you’re at, you know where you want to be, and you know what resources are available to you - given all that, how do you plan your next step? If your first solution doesn’t work, you do a retro, learn your lessons, and move on to your second solution, and your third. It’s all engineering. |
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> It’s hard in real life, too: vanishingly few people are meta-rational enough to try really hard to falsify their own ideas. Your brain really wants to find reasons to support what you believe.
I don't think he goes with "meta" deep enough. It is great for engineering problem solving mindset But it is also a good way to end up like underpaid post doc, who needs second job just to pay rent.
And this type of advices are usually coming from someone who "made it", has its own house and is practically retired. Very impractical and harmful (to some extend) for young minds.
Practical implementation for young person is not "falsifying" and trying again again. But coming with solutions that takes minimal time, is good enough and comparable to coworkers who work on the same salary. Time you save can be invested into education, family, hustle and so on.