When you are willing to delete large chunks of your work for something simpler – that’s when you know that you’ve improved.
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Whenever you hear someone saying that something is an art…
…especially in a non-artistic context, it just shows that the person hasn’t grasped the concept well enough to approach it Mathematically and systematically.
A friendly reminder
Nothing actually matters in the end.
Let that give you the courage to be free.
Order from chaos
Study the actions of any single person and you’ll find chaos and unpredictability. Study the collective actions of thousands of people and order starts to emerge. The more humans participating, and the longer the time horizon, the more predictable it is. The human race evolves quickly in science and technology, but the fear and greed built into our genome will keep us predictable for hundreds and thousands of years to come.
If you want to impress others
First, do something that impresses yourself
Then, do it 10 times better
Otherwise, don’t bother
Mistakes
Mistakes are key to escaping the local minima of known art, and is an essential component of true creativity. A perfect machine that can’t make mistakes against it’s own established knowledge can’t create. General intelligence therefore must be imperfect, and be allowed to make mistakes.
Just a different processor
Programs are instructions for computers
Processes are instructions for humans
A software engineer is good in the former, but an engineer is good in both
The two engineers
The poor engineer makes good technologies.
The rich engineer makes good products.
The most obvious solutions…
…are the hardest to find.
Time amplification
It’s not how you work with the time you have, but how you make the time you have work for you.