Current Focus
- Are You Learning, or Just Using Techniques: A technique only matters if it triggers the thinking the result requires. Beware clean-looking activity that avoids comparison, reconstruction, uncertainty, or judgment.
- First Principles of ICS: Overwhelm is disorganized information. Turn confusion into a question, then use the question to organize the next move.
- ICS System: Control the learning process: prestudy, encode deeply, retrieve intelligently, reflect, and upgrade the system one constraint at a time.
- Prestudy, BHS, and SIR: Turning Information into Usable Structure: Prestudy gives the frame, BHS builds the map, SIR keeps it retrievable. The goal is usable structure: building a stable mental model where information can sit.
- Balancing Multiple Interests: Breadth v Focus: Keep the full identity alive without making every interest active at once. Rotate deliberately, preserve momentum, and avoid false abandonment. Breadth belongs in Priority 0. Focus belongs in the active loop.
- How to Unlearn Old or Bad Habits Efficiently: Old habits win because they’re cheap and automatic. New skills lose because they’re expensive. Isolate the cue → old response, write a replacement script, rehearse judgment until the new move feels obvious. Practice the bottleneck.
- Minimalism as Systems Design: Reduce ownership cost so the environment becomes easier to act inside. Empty space is reserve capacity. Every object, workflow, subscription, and commitment charges attention, maintenance, and optionality.
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