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Oct 3, 2021, 15 tweets

This is def my fave Hacker News post: "Name one idea that changed your life".

Here are 11 gold answers 🧵

1/ The limits of being "right"

2/ Premature optimization is the root of all evil

3/ Favor interrogative-led questions over leading questions

4/ Interrogative-led questions are also better for Google search

5/ Dealing with knee-jerk bias

6/ "My opinions are not mine and they are holding me back"

7/ News is entertainment

8/ You can't guilt yourself into doing things you want to accomplish

9/ Unknown Unknowns

10/ The dichotomy of control

11/ Assume positive intent

12/ If you enjoyed that, I write other interesting threads 1-2x a week.

Follow @TrungTPhan to catch them in your feed.

Here's a related one where Elon also notes that "premature optimization" is bad:

13/ I also discuss interesting topics like this once a week (with a healthy dose of dumb jokes) on the Not Investment Advice (NIA) podcast.

Sub here: linktr.ee/notinvestmenta…

14/ Def check the full Hacker News post: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=230926…

Here's one last idea (from endymi0n)

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