Notes on Puzzles
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Notes on Puzzles
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#3Interesting observations, I would add my own:
- during long game, chess grand masters have physiology comparable to marathon runner, while he runs. Deep thinking for several hours, takes huge load on body. All the logic and critical thinking, is not going to save you, if you are not fit, and your brain does not work correctly.
- real life is not about solving puzzles. Real life is a rigged game where rules are not enforced. Instead of finding problems to solve, you need to find oportunities (and loopholes) and exploit them!
- game is rigged, and oportunities close fast. What worked a couple of years ago, probably does not work anymore.
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#4i am quite confused . It started saying good chess players are more careful and spent more time falsifying ideas but then he later gave startup examples which is the opposite ( not so careful with falsifying. Just jump into the water with conviction and figure things out on the way ) . Startup game is more like poker . It is very different from chess . Somehow the author drew the wrong conclusions. Very confusing
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#5Interesting observations, I would add my own: - during long game, chess grand masters have physiology comparable to marathon runner, while he runs. Deep thinking for several hours, takes huge load on body. All the logic and critical thinking, is not going to save you, if you are not fit, and your brain does not work correctly. - real life is not about solving puzzles. Real life is a rigged game where rules are not en…
I disdain this pessimism that is all over the internet.
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#6Interesting observations, I would add my own: - during long game, chess grand masters have physiology comparable to marathon runner, while he runs. Deep thinking for several hours, takes huge load on body. All the logic and critical thinking, is not going to save you, if you are not fit, and your brain does not work correctly. - real life is not about solving puzzles. Real life is a rigged game where rules are not en…
Sounds very similar to academic researchers.
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#7i am quite confused . It started saying good chess players are more careful and spent more time falsifying ideas but then he later gave startup examples which is the opposite ( not so careful with falsifying. Just jump into the water with conviction and figure things out on the way ) . Startup game is more like poker . It is very different from chess . Somehow the author drew the wrong conclusions. Very confusing
> Startup game is more like poker . It is very different from chess .
That’s the point of the article. It contrasts the thinking styles of ‘founder-types’ and ‘scientist-types’.
As a (in the terms of the article) ‘scientist-type’ who regularly gets lost in the weeds of the details, I found it a pretty interesting commentary.
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#8THIS concept-looking for all the ways that a solution won’t work (i.e. fail)-is the key to the ideation stage of a business startup.
Thank you for posting this.
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#9Interesting observations, I would add my own: - during long game, chess grand masters have physiology comparable to marathon runner, while he runs. Deep thinking for several hours, takes huge load on body. All the logic and critical thinking, is not going to save you, if you are not fit, and your brain does not work correctly. - real life is not about solving puzzles. Real life is a rigged game where rules are not en…
I think you're missing the point, while you are pretty correct IMO, viewing the world in such a dichotomic way misses the fine details along the spectrum
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#10Interesting observations, I would add my own: - during long game, chess grand masters have physiology comparable to marathon runner, while he runs. Deep thinking for several hours, takes huge load on body. All the logic and critical thinking, is not going to save you, if you are not fit, and your brain does not work correctly. - real life is not about solving puzzles. Real life is a rigged game where rules are not en…
I disdain this pessimism that is all over the internet.
I'm curious what strikes you as pessimistic in this comment versus just being realistic about the current social structures implicit to the US (I cant speak for the rest of the world)?