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Genes are the primary policy-makers; brains are the executives. But as brains became more highly developed, they took over more and more of the actual policy decisions, using tricks like learning and simulation in doing so. The logical conclusion to this trend, not yet reached in any species, would be for the genes to give the survival machine a single overall policy instruction: do whatever you think best to keep us alive.
The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins
How to Debug Your Own Brain
Summary:
The business side of things is relatively fluid. It doesn't take a whole lot of mental effort or energy to keep those things in mind right now. You are the instrument that you use to get things done in the world. There's still a tremendous amount of effort and skill that's valuable in that domaind.
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Like when you're trying to get yourself to do something you know you should b be doing, but somehow there's some sort of barrier that's keeping you from doing that. I think at this point i've, i've worked in enough businesses and started enough of my own businesses, the business side of things is relatively fluid. It doesn take a whole lot of mental effort or energy to keep those things in mind right now. But you are the instrument that you use to get things done in the world. And so the the debugging your own mind and help and trying to anticipate how others are thinking and feeling and trying to optimize around that, there's still a tremendous amount of Effort and skill that's valuable in that domaind and i find myself thinking about tho sorts of things quite often.
#106 Josh Kaufman — Maximizing Our Locus of Control
The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish
A formidable person is one who seems like they'll get what they want, regardless of whatever obstacles are in the way. Formidable is close to confident, except that someone could be confident and mistaken. Formidable is roughly justifiably confident.
How to Convince Investors
Paul Graham
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