Values
Overcoming Bias. I try as much as I can avoiding
Least Amount of Words Possible. “I am sorry that I didn’t have time to write a shorter letter” – Pascal. I try to distill knowledge into as little words as possible. I think this is one of the most important and neglected ideas about knowledge. The shorter the more valuable the message is (while simultaneously preserving its depth and quality).
Long-term view. New knowledge is both a blessing and a curse. It is a blessing when you compare medieval to contemporary findings in medicine, ethics, physics. It is also a curse because we have a
Through a Peasant's Reasoning. This is a Polish expression meaning to communicate without jargon, in the simplest possible terms. Knowledge is often a signaling tool – a vehicle for climbing a homo sapiens hierarchy ladder. "I am capable of using complex vocabulary", "I belong to this type of people", "I am smart". I feel this force is largely active in our culture and in my hunter gatherer. On this website, I attempt to drop sounding complex, sounding round, adding paragraphs to grip a reader with a better story. My north star is what
Mistakes
Validating is adding twice as much work. When I write about an idea I am spending disproportionate amount of time gathering evidence and phrasing examples to arrive at my thesis. It’s obvious that I must be subjected to
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