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Pessimism: everything will be bad.
Complacency: everything will be great.
Reasonable optimism: if you can endure enough bad it'll eventually get pretty great.
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Novice User Tax
A Gorilla has a lot to lose if its products appear to create friction for its novice users. The friction might be pricing, a steeper learning curve, seeing advanced features, etc. That's why a Gorilla’s products are typically quite suboptimal for power users.
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[](https://www.adithyan.io/blog/richard-sutton-ai-slogans/#8-work-by-orthogonal-dimensions-work-issue-by-issue)8. Work by orthogonal dimensions. Work issue by issue.
"Orthogonal dimensions" implies **independent aspects** of a problem. This slogan is advising researchers to tackle problems by breaking them down into separate, non-overlapping issues, and solving each one in turn. In practice, you identify different axes of complexity in your project and address them one at a time, holding others constant. This way, improvements in one area won't mess up another because you've separated concerns (just as orthogonal axes in a graph don't interfere with each other).
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