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To Become Wise, Do Less
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#12To appear wise, say less.
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#13I gotta say, articles(to use that term loosely) like this are really starting to grind my gears. There are so many of them. Every person and their dog is trying to become some sort of popular culture icon by sharing with us their incredibly profound inner dialogue. They all have advice for how to live our lives, and none of them can agree. If you take the sum of their advice, you have to do everything at once. Gotta…
I think articles like this just don’t belong on hackernews. This seems like a train of thought turned blog post. Maybe this guy thinks he is a guru, but it seems like it’s simply an attempt to formalize his musings. I’ve no qualms with this as a post, but it’s why I’m on this forum.
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#14To become wise, do everything, fuck up on most of it, and know what works and doesn't by direct experience. I am a minimalist (Essentialist) by choice, but a maximalist regarding knowledge and experience. Try and do everything you can, that way you know what does and doesn't work. Done. Anything else is overly reductive. You can't know how to do anything if you do or experience close to nothing. Leisure is good, I am…
If you are too busy, you will not think of the optimal solution to your intellectual problem.
I don’t know about other people, but I often have the experience of banging away at some problem for a few hours, then going away and not thinking about it for a while then a simple resolution pops into my mind without much effort.
Continuing to push hard when you aren’t getting any where on an intellectual puzzle isn’t always the best approach.
And there are some fields of inquiry where deep concentration and deep knowledge is useful. For instance, rather than recreating all the knowledge by your own trial and error you can read and then make truly novel mistakes.
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#15To become wise, think more, do less
Which actually means practice (or perform) thinking more and probably reduce "less meaningful" work (not just "meaningless")
Increasing efficiency & accuracy in thinking and performing actions
Above are my very rough thoughts.
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#16To appear wise, say less.
"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt."
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#17To become wise, do everything, fuck up on most of it, and know what works and doesn't by direct experience. I am a minimalist (Essentialist) by choice, but a maximalist regarding knowledge and experience. Try and do everything you can, that way you know what does and doesn't work. Done. Anything else is overly reductive. You can't know how to do anything if you do or experience close to nothing. Leisure is good, I am…
>> Try and do everything you can
Ars longa, vita brevis [1]
While I agree that experience by doing is the way to learn, the thing is we have finite resources and time while the things which we want to do are infinite. Which means when you choose to do something you are choosing not to do something else - think of it as an opportunity cost.
And merely doing without reflection is also not useful - and one can also reflect on the deeds of others too so that one can learn without a direct harm to ourselves.
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#18I gotta say, articles(to use that term loosely) like this are really starting to grind my gears. There are so many of them. Every person and their dog is trying to become some sort of popular culture icon by sharing with us their incredibly profound inner dialogue. They all have advice for how to live our lives, and none of them can agree. If you take the sum of their advice, you have to do everything at once. Gotta…
And so much of it is rehashed ancient philosophy, such as "moderation in all things". So much of is basically the Tao Te Ching, or astrology. That is to say, it's not true! but over millennia, humans have found it to be useful. Try not to get annoyed by writing that isn't meant for you (assuming you don't get any value out of it, it's a tautology that you are not the intended audience.)
>> So much of is basically the Tao Te Ching, or astrology.
I am having difficulty parsing your comment. You are equating Tao Te Ching and astrology in the same bucket ? One is a philosophy, a way of looking at life - the other I don't know what to call it. And if you say that both are ways of looking at the world then we can apply that yardstick to everything and it doesn't get us anywhere.
>> That is to say, it's not true! but over millennia, humans have found it to be useful.
What part of core ancient philosophies about how one should conduct oneself are not true but useful ?
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#19I gotta say, articles(to use that term loosely) like this are really starting to grind my gears. There are so many of them. Every person and their dog is trying to become some sort of popular culture icon by sharing with us their incredibly profound inner dialogue. They all have advice for how to live our lives, and none of them can agree. If you take the sum of their advice, you have to do everything at once. Gotta…
And so much of it is rehashed ancient philosophy, such as "moderation in all things". So much of is basically the Tao Te Ching, or astrology. That is to say, it's not true! but over millennia, humans have found it to be useful. Try not to get annoyed by writing that isn't meant for you (assuming you don't get any value out of it, it's a tautology that you are not the intended audience.)
I quite like nihilism that would lie behind a multi-paragraph rant that ends up loudly saying nothing more than "I'm not the target audience!". I find it simultaneously sad and hilarious.
Not saying IceDane is doing this, and ironically I find this line "Every person and their dog is trying to become some sort of popular culture icon by sharing with us their incredibly profound inner dialogue" ... profoundly accurate.
I'm afflicted by an innate desire to assert my own personal brand of intellectual profundity, but I can't settle on a platform (bike shed) from which to broadcast.
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#20Because Elon, Gates, Carmack, Eintstein , Feynman, Bezos, Sheryl Sandberg, Buckminister, Darwin did less.
Right.