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Be pragmatic
You have 80,000 hours. First principles for direction. Pragmatism for execution.
I spent three weeks configuring neovim once. Zero work done. No direction. No problem to solve. Just idealistic drive to make myself feel good. Now I use Ubuntu. VSCodium. GitHub. They’re boring. That’s the point. When tools are boring, I think about the work. Two Questions Question 1: Does this wor…
Stop debating, start building
We enter conversations seeking connection but default to debate seeking victory. This is a trap. The moment you try to win the point, you lose the person.
You feel the heat rise. The words get sharper. You have the perfect counter-argument. The final piece of logic that will prove you are right. This is the moment. The moment a conversation dies and a debate is born. It feels like a battlefield. It feels like a chance for victory. But it is a trap. Wh…