[Thoeu388]

From rule 2):

> 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.