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- [x] Rip surf training
- [x] What are we eating
- [x] I hit 15% body fat at ~10lbs greater bodyweight than in 2017
- [x] sleeping strategies: gone exercise was a one hit wonder; reading chess problems before bed
- [x] japanese study: ~~still haven't heard from~~ got in touch with ben, started ~~an~~ two "everything done for you" modern courses; bought the lifetime membership for one I decided against because I wanted to support them anyway (ended up using them in the end)
- [x] PN evil master plan
- [x] may 15 is 500 days of LRS: consistency over intensity gardener/grow a tree model of development: you can't speed things up (cubing, fat loss, language learning) you just do 80% of what's required consistently for a very long time
- [x] 100%ing Mario Wonder is ~~apparently~~ really, really difficult. my kids don't even know one person who's done it (100%ing all of the regular levels, but apparently there are 3 final special worlds that go from extremely difficult to insane). I ~~want to~~ will do it.
- [x] every.to and podcast about how to use AI
- [x] GPT 4o
- [x] market crazyness
- [x] pentathlon logistics and tech
- [x] MarioKart 8 Deluxe Skill band madness
- [x] servers, provisioning, GL, etc.
- [x] braid the game
- [x] loving "bad outcomes"
- [x] evolving thoughts on retirement
- [x] skip test revisited
- [x] I literally paused the Attia podcast so I could buy a Morpheus before finishing it
- [x] cholesterol, drugs, and you
- [x] Morpheus
- [x] what is the right sized goal? pushing, compromising other apsects of your life
- [x] First week with Morpheus
- [x] crypto confidential
to do
- [x] happiness is not the result of success but the cause
enjoyable?
- [x] what is trainable?
- [x] the first 10 hires
- [x] until the end of time book
- [x] listen book
- [x] Super Mario World
- [x] Daily Training
- [x] insights into getting new cubing personal bests while in maintenance mode
- [x] should I stay or should I go?
    - [x] developing expectations, defining consistency, structuring useful experiments, knowing when to reevaluate
- [x] something really crazy
- [x] justin's language acquisition theory
- [x] how do we see failure? how is failure useful feedback?
    - [x] check the email once and fail. framing success and failure and consistency rates (broken streak); how do we maintain momentum?
    - [x] failure rate goals
- [x] reading podcast series was really good, so many second-order takeaways
    - [x] everyone thinks they're doing the right thing (encumbent system believes challenger is profit-motivated and does not have children's best interests in mind, vice versa is also true)
    - [x] system of trust: everyone trusts efforts to read research (or even assumes not only that research has been read but has taken place) rather than reading and interpreting themselves
        - [x] beyond this: no one is testing for themselves what actually works. if there are two different systems, even if you ignore existing research, you can still test to see what works in practice for you. also "what works" is not something that's generally true or not. the documentary implies that most students learn to read on their own with effectively no formal instruction. how do we assess whether pedagogy is valid? we need to look at aggregate numbers (i.e. percent of students who can read at an X level) being taught with one paradigm or another OR even stratify these into different groups (i.e. one system may work even better for a majority of students but far worse for a minority)
    - [x] strong suggestions/associations with making money->moral compromise
        - [x] clearly there is a pattern showing people tend to morally compromise when there is the opportunity to profit from doing so. however, it's naive to believe that structuring systems as not-for profits solves this issue. in the later episodes, it seems clear to me that under-funded approaches are at a dissadvantage even when they are "correct" / more effective.
        - [x] given this is the case how can we align profit incentives with outcomes without incentivizing people to game the system (influence how assessments are done, get people to achieve high scores on the assessments while lacking the skills)
    - [x] getting away from the thing you really need to do and making life difficult in the process: family who "can't afford to send their kids to private school" spends $350k in legal expenses over a few years. would make sense in retrospect for one of the parents to quit and learn how to teach their kids, but people don't want to do this (I don't want to do this)
        - [x] frog boil?
        - [x] how do you know when you need to take matters into your own hands? when do you have to make tough calls?
        - [x] related: who is ultimately responsible for educating our children? hard truth is it's us, and for some kids this means they won't get a proper education. what is the best way to help these kids?
- [x] levelsio interview
- [x] founder mode (https://paulgraham.com/foundermode.html)
- [ ] what if the problem is that you love solving problems?
- [ ] skills vs metaskills or what are the most useful things to spend time learning
- [ ] Grit book equation
- [ ] avoiding shortcuts
- [ ] how do I make the work I'm chosing to do more 
- [ ] failure as it relates to language learning
  - [ ] measuring and targeting specific learning rates
  - [ ] pass/fail vs. remembered/need more practice 
  - [ ] cup metaphor
- [ ] personal issues with my father's best friend are proving to be a surprising challenge to me
    - [ ] what am I meant to learn from this?
- [ ] deoptimization experiments
- [ ] building a scaffold app
- [ ] end goals vs peocess goals
- [ ] I've achieved enlightenment
- [x] Effort™ a value
- [ ] anger being justified by intention
- [ ] time blocking revisited
- [ ] how to write great software
- [ ] taxes on investments as a corp and real math on what 
- [ ] how making more money yields anxiety
- [ ] (AoA) establishing company culture, learning
    - [ ] commuications
    - [ ] decision making
    - [ ] goal setting
    - [ ] being very clear about how to hire and fire / evaluation
- [ ] salary vs bonuses vs profit share
- [ ] engineering mentality vs entrapreneur mentality
- [x] how pn changed us
- [ ] hiring hasitha. regrets
- [ ] employment "fidelity", side hussles, hobbies
- [ ] working in world class teams
- [ ] grieving jobs
- [x] Assuming things will work out
- [ ] being okay with dropping things
- [ ] positivity baseline changing over time?
- [ ] chinese curse
- [ ] goal anxiety
    - [ ] not exciting
    - [ ] things to do 
    - [ ] have to push myself
    - [ ] why are you setting goals?
    - [ ] looking at the emptiness
    - [ ] not to have no goals, but a different relationship with goals
    - [ ] live what I preach
    - [ ] 
- [ ] when seriousness shows up it's a bad sign
- [ ] worshipping the problem
- [x] energy management
- [ ] how do start saying no to meeting
- [x] what is "pace" and how to measure it?
- [x] hire people who are 5x as productive and pay them "only" 1.5 times as much
- [x] shiftadapt
- [x] coherence breathing
- [x] meta anxiety
- [x] is anxiety "bad"? why do you get upset about it? is it "good" if you're not upset about it?
- [ ] feel as good saying no as syaing yes
- [x] where Luke is at
- [x] founders and vcs have the wrong incentives
    - [x] founders think they deserve all of the company
    - [x] scalers deserve way more than they get
    - [x] vc sells ability to pick founders, not leaders
    - [x] are WE getting fucked?
- [x] Dify workflow ai builder
- [x] founders being evil
- [x] we getting fucked by vc and founders
- [x] making friends, kids, and us
- [ ] doing the same things over and over again and being happy
- [ ] routine and repetition as a way to create space
- [ ] how do you know when you are at 80% good
- [ ] 5 out of 10 as a "good score"
- [ ] socialism
    - [ ] incentives
- [x] charlie guy, non-violent communication
- [ ] let it burn theory
- [x] big rocks first
    - [x] why are people blocked on you?
    - [x] is your approach the only way for people to be unblocked
    - [x] Alex Hormozi: maker/manager/hybrid schedules
- [x] early observations from no experiment: mostly delegation, stopping myself from going too far with various things rather than what was intended
- [ ] interesting philosophical point about embeddings on codebases
- [ ] howard marks cape adjusted returns analysis
- [ ] "good at chess"