2021-05-28

• {^Tom Chi's video on "Mental Debugs"}
  • I had seen this video years ago, but returned to it after talking to Tom today about my work at {Upstream Tech}. I feel like the clickbait title doesn't do it justice. There are some fantastic ideas in here that have guided how I approach learning.
  • Reading on different ways to envision a sustainable planet:
    • Hunter Lovens
      • {^https://natcapsolutions.org/l-hunter-lovins}
    • Paul Sheldon
      • {^https://www.greenbiz.com/article/fundamentals-sustainable-business-21st-century}
    • Laszlos
      • {^https://weatherhead.case.edu/media/videos/list/fowler-faculty/play/fowler-laszlo}
      • {^https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POisjO5GYY0}
      • {^https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVz4B_CVzug}
  • "Knowing is the enemy of learning"
    • Be in a state of unknowning; do not bring the experts in, embrace new possibilities and avoid matching patterns.
    • By posing "what else is there still to learn about it?" the mind becomes malleable again. Mirrors approaching challenges with addiction and difficuluty with curiosity, posed by a guest in an Ezra Kline interview.
  • Pick the practice gap over the knowledge gap
    • Learning without doing is not bringing closer to the master gap
    • The practice gap brings you to the start of the mastery gap
    • The mastery gap is infinite
  • Staying in the medium
    • We work on things as a massive series of handoffs. Impossible to create masterpieces.
    • The closer you can stay in the medium of your work, the greater the possibility of creating a masterpiece
  • Metabolizability is more important than truth, "service to person in front of you"
  • "How can I love my medium long enough to create my masterpiece?"