In a perfect world, you’d be able to execute with both speed and accuracy. But this is rare. Perfect information is very difficult (impossible?) to have, so ultimately you have to make decisions without knowing all factors. At school, when we have to study for exams, the most academically oriented students (i.e the nerds, those […]

A quick heuristic that you can use to measure your progress in a certain area is to gauge what type of questions you’re asking, and to see whether they have changed over time. For example, if you set out to learn to code two years ago, an obvious question you may have asked yourself is […]

Ryan Holiday writes the following: “The mathematician and economist Eric Weinstein, has a category of individual he defines as a “high agency person.” As Eric would elaborate on Tim Ferriss’s podcast: “When you’re told that something is impossible, is that the end of the conversation, or does that start a second dialogue in your mind, how […]