reminders

• pay more attention to what you want to see more of.
• you are permitted to do what you believe is right.
• risks are less risky than you think. take as many as you can.
• the more you know, the easier it is to see the next steps.
• if you’re ever confused about what to do, do the right thing.
• you haven’t failed until you’ve given up.
• expectation of progress towards a goal is key to motivation.
• let people tell you no. don’t make the decision for them.
• decisions autoresolve to the scary one.
• focus on one thing at a time.
• strong intuition doesn’t mean intuition is right.
• seek ground truth and poke reality. don’t settle for proxies.
• send cold emails. assume that everyone is a friend.
• be suspicious if you haven’t felt awkward today.
• working on hard problems requires courage. acknowledge & embrace fear.
• the smarter someone is, the more they can afford to have terrible epistemics and still be successful.
• if there’s something on your mind, write it down & get it out. maintain full attention on what you’re doing.
• if you have a thought and you don’t like it, you can tell your brain that you don’t like it and drop it.
• avoid getting stuck.
• if you never feel a particular emotion, it’s probably the brain suppressing awareness of it or suppressing the emotion directly.
• read. a lot.
• write. even more.
• the richest people lose the most money, the most connected people get rejected the most, the most successful people fail the most.
• people think that others have the same motivations as they do.
• people protect themselves by projecting their fears on others.
• what’s the default decision?
• run, don’t walk. literally. there is no speed limit.
• you’ll learn 10x more by talking to the paper’s author for 30 minutes versus reading it for 30 minutes.
• you can’t improve what you can’t measure. if you want to improve on ground-truth, measure ground-truth.
• you think you want something until you meet someone who actually wants it.
• we become the people whose opinion we care about.
• we become the people we spend the most time (physically and mentally) with.
• get to the point.
• how do you feel – not think! – about your current top goal?
• fewer, better arguments.
• cherish friends who tell you things that make you angry.
• easy-to-replace systems get replaced by difficult-to-replace systems.
• do something courageous.
• be suspicious if you’re not asking dumb questions.
• feeling stupid now is better than feeling stupid in 10 years.
• some people are not your friends.
• saying things out loud shows inner conflict.
• make sure you trust your own word.
• writing makes thought visible.
• luck favors the prepared.
• everything is power-law distributed.
• everything is power-law distributed.
• if you’re not failing, you’re not operating at the edge. if you’re not operating at the edge, you’re not learning as much as you can.
• ask for help. especially when you’re scared of asking for help.
• grow a personal website.
• if someone you respect gives you dumb advice, think about it instead of discarding it immediately.
• let the world tell you no.
• have a concrete, positive vision of the future.
• seek people who don’t get angry at you for saying what you think, being yourself, and doing what you believe is right.
• love.
• you decide whether to live in the past or in the future with your every action.
• spend more money.
• know what you want.
• be loyal to your friends.
• ask the girl you like out.
• be gentle. be kind.
• don't die.

stolen from https://guzey.com/lifehacks/