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21 Aug 18, 17 tweets, 7 min read
Choose something that lets you grow, not a dead end

The likelihood of boundaries in your growth is much greater w/ a boss than being free, eg freelance

BTW: What's worse? If the boundary is in your capability to create value or in getting rewarded for it
Your growth & freedom are also severely limited by some contracts; eg renting your brain 24/7, giving up all rights to any intellectual property for as long as the contract lasts

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As an entrepreneur, employee, or even a candidate: always be able to walk. Otherwise, there's no negotiation, and that ensures a bad deal, for you. Don't accept bad deals, you can easily find yourself losing (not winning!) to not lose even more.

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Do not restrict yourself to already walked & well known paths, go to the unknown (blue ocean), research, i.e. learn what nobody knows and cannot be taught, you will be the only one w/ your skills. Nobody is better than you at being you.

Focus on what brings joy to you, your intellectual interests. If you are good at something, the society will want more of that thing from you. If that is a virtuous cycle of joy & freedom or a vicious cycle of capitalist oppression depends only on you.

We all have have things we like to do, focus on what feels like work to others

You don't need to compete and be the best, but you need to be yourself, happy, free, different, and valuable for society, as an artist, engineer, creator, entrepreneur,…

Redefine what you do, who you are

Be the best in the world at what matters to you

Show the world:
1. Why they should care
2. Why you are the best

When:
1. They love the results, and
2. You love the process

You negotiate to get paid for playing

You cannot constantly force yourself to do something that you do not want to do

It is a civil war, you are on both sides. You lose, twice

You have to align the things you want, and pursue them in one single direction. Work on aligning

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If you are good at the alignment problem, you can save the world, and get rich in the process

trylks.wordpress.com/2018/01/06/the…

Not easy, but worth it



Change yourself, not trying to become a god, just 1% more deft each day

lemire.me/blog/2017/11/2…
If you do not enjoy the process, you might hate where you get at

- If you are good at it, you will get more of it, deeper in hell

- If you are not good at it, you will not get anywhere (a prison), escaping being increasingly difficult

You want neither

Arguably, you have the moral obligation to create as much value as possible by doing the things that matter to you (be the change that you want to see in the world)

Factually, it has to be profitable to be sustainable, i.e. capture value
Play games that you want to play even if you lose, then win

If you do not want to play a game, leave it for the people who want to play it

If nobody wants to play it, leave it for those who know no better than suffering it
Try to enjoy your life, you only have one of those, and they are always short

You can stay in a game you that hate until you win, and the reward will be more of it

It is entirely possible, but why would anyone sign up for such torment?

When in a hole, stop digging; do not hope for an inflection point where you will start to go up, there is no time for that

Try to save yourself, it is your life

Nobody is going to save you

But they may find ways to use you to save themselves

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If population was divided between immune & elder, then the elder should be the ones in their homes

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First: health

For every system, what allows it to operate in a wider range of situations in the future and for longer time, contributes to its health, it is beneficial (game & value theory)

Easy to see in systems like: body, mind, economy, ecosystems,…
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HR departments highly scientific algorithms may be (very accurately and systematically) selecting for lemons, discarding peaches

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