Doing something the first time is how you learn the right and wrong things. You have to do it the second time to actually implement them

And a third time to get it right!

What’s the situation with anthropic? Seems like they are in a similar position. Will Google be the actual winner?

Good motivational post, been thinking on similar lines lately. Compounding might be the most powerful force. It’s hard to fight the temptation to quit when not seeing results but doing something small consistently for years will have a big impact. Just do a thing and keep doing it for a while and you will see big changes.

Ah yes, no doubt about it.

I hadn't thought about compounding at the time of writing this essay. One of the reasons was that I just felt like grabbing people by their necks and thrust their face in the screen while shouting "see...see..you can just do things.. don't wait.."

Sometimes, it is better to take the immediate, most feasible action: doing the thing in front of us. Then doing the next thing. Then the next..

Thanks for the suggestion. I’ll check it out!

I don’t practice meditation so I couldn’t tell you. I do find that when I do it, there are two regimes.

In the first regime the time goes somewhat quickly and it isn’t as difficult. I call this the zoning out regime. There usually hits a sudden point where zoning out is no longer quite as easy. This is probably the meditative regime where I have to be more mindful about keeping my mind blank.

I set a timer just to train my will, but I don’t prioritize spending a ton of time in that second regime. Just anecdotally, once I’m past the zoning out regime my focus is usually back.

There’s a lot of research on restorative environments (usually nature/outside)being good for focus. I definitely try to spend as much time outside as I can, but for some reason the wall works better for that 5-10 minutes. Being outside is much more enjoyable though haha

I remember first hearing about this from the book Deep Work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_restoration_theory

Interesting. I hadn't heard of that directly, but I've never found it to be true. I've found momentum and continuation to be more useful than rest or relaxation when it comes to tackling big things.

Cool idea not something I need. But based on the site design i probably wouldn’t try it. The site looks pretty dated/rough. You can do simple but use modern fonts and styling

Is this actually true? It's still listed on the site although some other sources I've seen seem to imply this.

Maybe this is legit or maybe this is just a psy-op to keep the hype train chugging

How beefy does the server have to be?