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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. Transcript: Speaker 1 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

Figuring out the right product is the innovator’s job, not the customer’s job. The customer only knows what she thinks she wants based on her experience with the current product. The innovator can take into account everything that’s possible, often going against what she knows to be true. This requires a combination of knowledge, skill, and courage.

Tren Griffin - A Dozen Lessons for Entrepreneurs

2017, Columbia University Press

That your strength as a rationalist is your ability to be more confused by fiction than by reality.

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

Eliezer Yudkowsky

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