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Everyone I’ve met would be well-served thinking more about what to focus on www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/multi-armed-bandit

8520 sats \ 25 comments \ @elvismercury 4 Jan culture

This is one of those articles that makes me feel bad about myself, since it is so obviously, undeniably true, it's something I knew already, and it's something I'm doing a horseshit job of in my own life. It's by the same guy who wrote about how a blog is for finding your people so if you liked that, you'll like this.

If you have thoughts about how this manifests in your own life, I'm all ears.

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980 sats \ 5 replies \ @elvismercury OP 4 Jan

Heads up @siggy47 and maybe @k00b -- I tried to post this originally in the BooksAndArticles territory, and it kept saying "select valid territory" so I dunno what's up, if it's a bug or what?

Culture was my next choice, so I just did it here when that kept not working.

30 sats \ 2 replies \ @k00b 4 Jan

Gosh darn, I know what it is. Thanks for reporting!

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 4 Jan

at least this is a good meme opportunity:

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 4 Jan

Should be fixed. Let's see what else I broke.

31 sats \ 0 replies \ @roytheholographicuniverse 4 Jan

Happy to have you post in culture :) Thank you for sharing here!!

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 4 Jan

Thanks for the heads up! I might not have noticed for days.

160 sats \ 1 reply \ @siggy47 4 Jan

I know what you mean. That article made me feel pretty damn inadequate. I really like the whole explore/exploit discussion. I had never heard of this before, and I immediately thought of real life examples of both. Again, depressing as hell: those who spend their lives wandering without ever settling on anything productive, and those who set their goals too low, and limit their horizons and potential.

120 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryotosensei 4 Jan

Same here! I haven’t heard of explore/exploit until today. This pairs very well with the searching vs hunting mindset when it comes to reading, an article shared by @Coyote_Cosmico (https://www.overcomingbias.com/p/chase-your-readinghtml)

143 sats \ 5 replies \ @antic 4 Jan

Excellent read. I struggle with this myself, having a huge breadth of interest in drawing, coding, being a dad, running a bitcoin routing node, designing art in 3D modeling systems (I’m making a 1.6 acre stone wall maze for my future dream acreage).

43 sats \ 4 replies \ @siggy47 4 Jan

Damn! That's more than 3.

221 sats \ 2 replies \ @cryotosensei 4 Jan

For better or for worse, being a dad stays on the list! Haha

40 sats \ 1 reply \ @siggy47 4 Jan

Yep. For me too. A lot of successful people sacrificed their families to focus on other areas. I could never have done that.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryotosensei 4 Jan

Family is eternal; everything else is transcendental

298 sats \ 0 replies \ @antic 4 Jan

And that’s just the hobbies I’ve narrowed down without mentioning my full time job. I like the play the ukulele too.

110 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryotosensei 4 Jan

Thank you for the invitation. I’m glad I read this article so early in 2024, because I suspect the insights that I manage to internalise will play a pivotal role in shaping this year for me. I was just telling @birdeye21 in his post that I am aiming to be a multihypenate. He also shared about his desire to Refine this year (basically to sharpen his focus). While I understand the advantages of concentrating on less so as to gain more, my ENFP mind just wouldn’t let me focus on 1-2 priorities. I actually wrote down the four areas I’m interested to write about this year: AI, BTC, parenting and Japan.

I think reading how Henrik said that you can have 1-2 priorities, just not 3 or more gave me some comfort because I was feeling stressed out by not being able to narrow my writing interests down to 1. I like the idea that he proposed: that he will divide his time into 3 parts: 1) just exploration, 2) mainly exploration and a little exploitation, 3) solely exploitation.

Any structure that can hold my wandering mind by the reins is worth trying. In fact, before reading his article, I had told myself that I would focus on writing about Japan and BTC for the whole of this month. So, I hope to be less greedy and explore deeper at any one point in time.

107 sats \ 3 replies \ @nym 18 Apr

I tend to procrastinate sometimes and feel guilty about that, but what really is our purpose in life anyway?

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @elvismercury OP 19 Apr

What have you concluded so far?

218 sats \ 1 reply \ @nym 19 Apr

Being kind and helpful to others, family, and myself, as we are all connected somehow in this universe. I really don't know much else besides that.

6 sats \ 0 replies \ @elvismercury OP 19 Apr

Seems pretty fucking solid to me.

1059 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 6 Jan

This guy deserves to earn a living as a writer.

I'm repelled by pathological exploiters I think. They often know they're trapped but don't realize they've trapped themselves. I'm overwhelmed by this urge to shake them and have no right.

It reminds of this scene from Pig that I pinned to my twitter profile.

If you're struggling to truly explore, the best place to start might be doing the opposite of whatever you'd normally do. Often the handcuffs are the Chinese toy kind.

2235 sats \ 0 replies \ @elvismercury OP 6 Jan

Ironically, my biggest failing (well, among them) is being a pathological explorer. It's its own micro-tragedy, playing out on a tiny violin. Truly one of those things where it's important to get the balance right else wind up some burnt-out husk.