🦾 4 Principles of Effective thinking
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Just imagine how much an advantage the technology-savvy individuals have today.
I feel like it's comparable to when the printing press was first introduced.
Those that learned how to read had an enormous advantage over the majority of the world that did not.
Here are a few tools in my tech stack that I use daily, and with each passing day, I get better at using them. (The latter part is vital since tools are meaningless if you don't use them effectively.)
Notion → I use it to run everything. Wild Foods, Podcast, this newsletter, my knowledge database, personal record keeping, and goal tracking. It takes a commitment, but you'll never leave once you're in it.
Substack → It's free to send this newsletter. For this sized list, if I were on something like Mailchimp, it would cost around $300 a month.
Adobe illustrator, photoshop, and premiere pro → I can't stand adobe as a company with their constant barrage of logging in every time you load up the apps and their move to only monthly subscriptions model. But the apps themselves are generally excellent and industry-standard. I pay $29 a month for the entire suite. (Tip: get a student subscription.)
Grammarly → Indispensable. I wish they had a "accept all changes" button. I would click that and then do a quick proofread/copy edit. Instead, it's usually a lot of redundant clicking.
Writesonic → see more below. A more powerful-than-I-can-fathom tool that I now use daily… and getting better.
Dashlane → password and CC management.
Boomerang for Gmail → brings emails back. It's why I'm very good at following up.
Tick Tick → Productivity app. I've tried many, and this one has the features I like. I use this for recurring and personal tasks, primarily business/project management.
Loom → free for 5-minute videos. The urge to have meetings is an urge we should all resist. A recorded video with an accompanying step-by-step process list is miles more effective at teaching someone a process. And once you build that process, you have it forever.
4 Principles of Effective thinking 👇 (+ AI-generated images)
1. First principles thinking
Your math must compute if you're building a rocket, bridge, or airplane.
One wrong computation and people die.
1 + 1 must always be 2 because everything is built on top.
This applies to your thinking. One carelessly defined word or idea, and everything above is at risk. People are more susceptible to this than they realize since so few have analyzed their biases, fears, and assumptions.
2. Definitions are paramount
Socrates obsessed over the definitions of words.
Most struggle to define the words they use. So assumptions creep into the foundation of their thinking.
If your foundation is shaky, everything built on top is fragile.
3. Think independently, not socially
Remove other people from your thinking.
You must find built-in biases based on what you want to believe.
Most fail to overcome the dissonance of Truth being inconvenient to the status quo, so they never see it.
4. Open
Stay open.
Every idea is an assumption. Even first principles could change if there is a breakthrough discovery (but seldom do).
The best ideas and right actions don't always lead to the desired outcome.
So pivot and go again.
Be fluid, flexible, and always moving.
AI fun
I’ve used AI writing software and image/art generating apps.
Both are so powerful that I don’t think I—or anyone—get their upcoming potential.
I feel it’s one of those early things that looks like a “toy” but is moving towards creating trillions of $$$ in value for humanity.
Paul Graham said this:
“Just as trying to think up startup ideas tends to produce bad ones, working on things that could be dismissed as "toys" often produces good ones. When something is described as a toy, that means it has everything an idea needs except being important. It's cool; users love it; it just doesn't matter. But if you're living in the future and you build something cool that users love, it may matter more than outsiders think. Microcomputers seemed like toys when Apple and Microsoft started working on them. I'm old enough to remember that era; the usual term for people with their own microcomputers was "hobbyists." BackRub seemed like an inconsequential science project. The Facebook was just a way for undergrads to stalk one another.”
I’d build a business around this stuff if I had more time. Since taking Wild back, I’ve been laser-focused. It feels great to have my purpose and mission back.
For now, I’m using these tools to produce more and better content.
Out of the few apps I’ve tried, my favorite ai writer is Writesonic. They also just released Photosonic, which is crazy good already.
If you write at all, try this app.
The more you use it, the better the app gets. Those early on with this technology are going to have a massive advantage. So it’s a tool/toy you should start using now if you have any use case for it whatsoever. I was hesitant to share this since part of me wants this to stay hidden for a bit longer.
Here are some of the images I generated while working on the thread above:
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No real comments here today since I’m in an “evergreen” mood. Generally, that’s my default. When I’m working a lot, I have little time to watch what’s “going on,” and I happen to be happier and more optimistic about the future when that’s the case.
And what you’ll see in those comments is individuals with TDS saying something like, “Whatabout this” or “that.” It’s all a circus of delusion that sidesteps the fact that the state is the ultimate monopoly of them all and, thus, the ultimate corruption of nature.
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