Notes | Tutorial 51

prenotes

• reflection on getting to do some FI stuff a few days ago
• burnout? am I using it as an excuse? I worry I am
• project plan thing (in posts; left sidebar)
• review anything posted to curi.us?
• time management an issue - rushed and didn’t finish project planning examples
  • demonstrates some overreaching

practice

• can practice things while doing other things
  • can be more effective by connecting things to practice
  • have in mind 1/2/3 things trying to learn, fix some error
  • try to think of 1+ particular thing to pay attention to
    • make it productive and do aux stuff while achieving main goal too
    • mario example - active learning and practice instead of just like playing the game and getting better
  • lists existing is fine but you can’t pay attention to 20 things while doing
  • need enough mental buffer left to think about the other thing to practice
    • e.g. writing post on epistemology + pay attention to using commas well

• deceptively simple things
  • ppl say they agree
  • but they don’t do it
  • eg. #18523 ? maybe not a good example
  • citations - incentive to bloat bibliography
    • recursive problem

• overly complex for small projects – I wrote something about this
• trouble with overall project
  • mismatched sizes?
  • generalising too early?
  • ‘clever’ project?
• writing a short book on type-level programming
  • is this a potential way to learn something if there isn’t good material?
• ppl don’t write what they learn
  • vue typescript + plugins example
    • overhead to documenting
      • can zhs/bash do like saved + named history?
• write book thing
  • should get better at writing tech docs – I shouldn’t expect to be good now
    • practice methodology
      • shorter stuff one blogpost good
      • conflict:
        • do I feel like my goals are not well aligned to the minutia?
        • can I find better ways to connect small individual tasks to big picture goals?
        • prior commitments
          • it’s good to keep commitment
          • but I don’t like that
• burnout authenticity
  • July 20th -> 24th; tutorial 18 and around
• get rid of excuses
  • eg. get plenty of sleep
• For some particular things, like sleep, I usually come up with the excuse that might be legit but then make it worse

• prioritisation

• difficulty changing deeper ideas <- interconnection
• always be working on a couple of things

• t+55min

• getting stuck on the same things
  • time mgmt
  • mismatch between active projects and desired projects

• common excuses / list of categories to get a bit off / 64 min

time management vs not time-mgmt
  what am I choosing to do?
  what does it reflect?

• discussions; often in small chunks
  • appealing?
  • quick writing
    • benefits re autopilot
    • habits: time efficient value
      • learn not to make a mess and plan to clean later – there is no later
• doing post by yourself is a potentially bigger chunk

• learning cycle
  • get idea for something that might be an issue
  • observe, learn, understand issue
  • find solns
  • implement solns
  • master solns
  • repeat

easy way

• non-judgementally observe the smoking
• background things that aren’t bottlenecks but are changing

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• can tackling bottlenecks be overreaching? (arguably then overreaching is the bottleneck)

should expect a new thinking method to take like several months to figure out to apply and let it sink in.

• journaling re mental energy - could start sorta estimating over/under?
• 83 min
• overbook + underestimate

important to ‘see it for yourself’

the ‘wait 6 months’ plan of learning – I’ve done that a bunch. BoI is like that.

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• CEOs & business transparency
  • criticism seen as bad – can’t show up superiors
  • maybe can’t be sure you’re doing good, but there are some ways to be sure something is not good
• cost accounting / local optimisation
  • note to self: don’t understand this well enough; the goal 25% through or thereabouts

quickcheck idea

yes/no property of dependent/independent variables

• testing for dependence; is it useful?

• come up with examples and brainstorm ways this idea plays into it / is significant / etc

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