Q: How can I actually get better at life?
A: Curate a list of common failure modes, and form habits to avoid common failure modes.
As a human my L1-cache is tiny. So here is the compressed list:
L1
You might notice that if you made this into an acronym it would spell misss.
You might think that if we are making an analogy to cache, then a better acronym would have been hit. Fortunately this is incorrect. This has something to do with cats, and I cannot elaborate for legal reasons. But anyways, how to prevent something from getting evicted from cache?
Well, letâs assume that your cache is managed by LRU.
Then just say cache miss out loud every 30 minutes. Yup pretty simple.
health
sleep: 10-6. consistently.
exercise: when you wake up, and in the afternoon. As breaks from work.
technology: check communications once per day (namely, at 9pm). state purpose verbally; no aimlessness
social: talk to people
food: donât eat too much. wait till hungry to eat. avoid unhealthy food.
water: drink lots
mental health
have a schedule of fun things to do
go places
Avoid âminorâ concessions
- theyâre never actually minor (historically)
- except, also, donât fail with abandon, concessions can be minor!
ârecovery strategiesâ:
- good: human interaction, going outside
- bad: anything involving media
rationality
- stare into the abyss soon, but not when in poor condition.
- pain is not the unit of effort
- sunk costs, inconvenience, halo, motivated reasoning etc donât necessarily mean you hold incorrect beliefs, but they should cause you to be more skeptical
- Do you want to X or to have Xâed?