I watched her dance, arms curving like wings, her strong young legs in love with their own motion. This was how mortals found fame, I thought. Through practice and diligence, tending their skills like gardens until they glowed beneath the sun. But gods are born of ichor and nectar, their excellences already bursting from their fingertips. So they find their fame by proving what they can mar: destroying cities, starting wars, breeding plagues and monsters. All that smoke and savor rising so delicately from our altars. It leaves only ash behind.

- Circe, Madline Miller

Goals

Goals function as headings, not a drive but a north star, giving clarity. For all of the goals, I see a path where I can contribute.

• Create the hyperbolic time chamber (best personalized education system.)
• Automate the home.
• Contribute & help cure dementia.

Wisdom I Found Useful

• Two small steps are easier then one big jump.
• Keep things simple, the less things there are, the easier it is to get them right. You can squish a lot down into a single metric.
• The context is the system. A impenetrable mountain fortress is only relevant if it's near some fields or on a key mountain pass.
• We did not automate medieval craftsmen by recreating people, but by instead, breaking down the tasks and shaping the individual parts to take advantage of available machines.
• Depth > Breadth, but also, breadth comes with depth.
• Copying is allowed, "You don't own your strategies"
• Make the math on your side, power laws & exponentials.
• Reality is hard to model, rule of thumb is beneficial because it injects tacit slack.
• Make things a choice. Anki makes memory a choice, checklists make processes a choice.
• "It is the simple doing of certain small tasks can generate huge results.", Mundane Excellence
• "For instance, let's consider a lobby of 12 50th percentile players. If just one of those players was an 80th percentile player instead, corresponding to a 0.1 increase in raw team skill, that players team would have a 70+% chance of winning."

Future

We currently live in the most exciting times in history, it is important to be active.

To understand what is coming it's important to understand the mechanics of the system. There is an anecdote about a engineer in 1200th France who built a automatic log cutter on the river. Float wood in, out it comes cut. After a while it became unused, because everybody on the river had their wood needs met, and transporting it across land wasn't worth the effort. Keep this wisdom in mind when thinking about the future. The feasibility of technology is based on the laws of physics and economics. Selling to the whole world is precisely why both rich and poor have the same iphone, and the ability to build & transport globally is what enables it.

The scale of modern machine learning is creating one of largest transformation in history. But, nobody knows the limits, there is extreme uncertainty. Keeping in mind the two laws, anything is possible. Therefore, be active, adaptive, and don't ,what ever you do, don't be indecisive.
The only thing left to do is to act.

See you space cowboy...