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Contrast From Baseline Is Important
Although having stability and staying at a high baseline may seem ideal, it is more important to have contrasting variability. Generally, contrast…
Jul 25
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Travel Exposes You to Different Truths
From Discourse on the Method by René Descartes: For these reasons, as soon as my age permitted me to pass from under the control of my instructors, I…
Jul 22
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Discipline Equals Freedom
Freedom requires constraint.
Jul 18
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Errors Are Required to Stimulate Neuroplasticity
From birth to age 25, mere exposure to a sensory event can create plasticity, good or bad. After age 25, neuroplasticity starts to decline. Although…
Jul 15
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Trust the Process
“You have a right to perform your prescribed duties, but you are not entitled to the fruits of your actions. Never consider yourself to be the cause of…
Jul 11
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Do the Best That You Can
Do not focus on the outcome, which you can't control. Focus instead on what you can control, which is doing the best that you can - the purity of your…
Jul 8
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Innovation Can Come from Combining Different Fields
One way to innovate is to combine different fields to create something new.
Jul 4
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Creativity Comes From Constraint
The game I play [science] is a very interesting one. It’s imagination [creativity], in a tight straitjacket [constraint]. — Richard Feynman In order to…
Jul 1
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June 2024
Innovation Is Going From Zero to One
Coming up with something that has never been done before that causes everyone to adopt.
Jun 27
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Complex Structures Are Conservative
Complex structures do not often appear spontaneously, and are often built iteratively on top of pre-existing structures. Significant changes to these…
Jun 24
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Via Negativa
In theology and philosophy, the focus on what something is not, an indirect definition, deemed less prone to fallacies than via positiva.
Jun 20
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Less Is More
Absorb what is useful, discard what is useless and add what is specifically your own
Jun 17
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