• Aim for the truth, build from there
• Be comfortable with your intentions and don’t fear them being known
  • Trust your intuition. It will lead to better alignment with yourself long-term
• Attention is scarcer than time
  • Be impatient; life is too short for “bullshit”; Aggressively ignore bullshit.
  • Move through the work; it’s not a finite stream
• Go after your goals and don’t care about others
• Think critically;
  • “Argue both sides, believe neither.”
  • Seek to understand, not respond
  • Submitting ideas to peer review
• Keep your identity small (http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html)
  • “the more labels you have for yourself, the dumber they make you”
  • “Always Produce” heuristic
• “Slow is Fake” - do more.
  • Proof of interest < Proof of work
  • Doing things quickly makes you “contact with reality more often”
• Sayes Law; Source of consumption is production not demand
  • “make up for it in volume”
  • doing as much as you can is a form of life extension
• Simplify everything; keep thoughts and ideas simple; only add complexity when needed

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