(see also search term “forward chaining vs back-chaining.”)
This seems like reasonable life advice for people generally trying to accumulate resources and do something cool. I’m not sure about people who actually have specific goals they want to accomplish. I think in the domain of AI safety, forward chaining is insufficient (seems like the kind of thing that gets you OpenAI and Anthropic)
The principles I sort of try to live by are, each 2-weeks, I should have done:
some actions that forward chain towards more compounding resources
some actions explicitly backchaining from longterm goals
ship something concrete to users
do something wholesome
Which is I think aiming to accomplish similar goals towards the OP, without losing the plot on my more specific goals.
I currently feel confused about how to integrate “the kind of thinking that is good at momentum / action” and “the kind of good that is good at creative strategy”. And it seems like there should be more of a way to unify them into a holistic way-of-being.
The four checksums above are there to make sure I’m not being myopic in some way in a broader sense, but they apply more at the timescale of weeks than hours or days.
You might just say “well, idk, each week or day, just figure out if it’s more like a momentum week or more like a creative strategy week”. I feel dissatisfied with this for some reason.
At least part of it is “I think on average people/me could use to be in creative/broader strategy mode more often, even when in a Momentum mode period.”
Another part is “there are strategy skills I want to be practicing, that are hard to practice if I don’t do them basically every day. They aren’t as relevant in a momentum-period, but they’re not zero relevant.
Hrm. I think maybe what’s most dissatisfying right now is that I just haven’t compressed all the finnicky details of it, and it feels overwhelming to think about the entire “how to think” project, which is usually an indicator I am missing the right abstraction.
(see also search term “forward chaining vs back-chaining.”)
This seems like reasonable life advice for people generally trying to accumulate resources and do something cool. I’m not sure about people who actually have specific goals they want to accomplish. I think in the domain of AI safety, forward chaining is insufficient (seems like the kind of thing that gets you OpenAI and Anthropic)
The principles I sort of try to live by are, each 2-weeks, I should have done:
some actions that forward chain towards more compounding resources
some actions explicitly backchaining from longterm goals
ship something concrete to users
do something wholesome
Which is I think aiming to accomplish similar goals towards the OP, without losing the plot on my more specific goals.
This maybe reminds me:
I currently feel confused about how to integrate “the kind of thinking that is good at momentum / action” and “the kind of good that is good at creative strategy”. And it seems like there should be more of a way to unify them into a holistic way-of-being.
The four checksums above are there to make sure I’m not being myopic in some way in a broader sense, but they apply more at the timescale of weeks than hours or days.
You might just say “well, idk, each week or day, just figure out if it’s more like a momentum week or more like a creative strategy week”. I feel dissatisfied with this for some reason.
At least part of it is “I think on average people/me could use to be in creative/broader strategy mode more often, even when in a Momentum mode period.”
Another part is “there are strategy skills I want to be practicing, that are hard to practice if I don’t do them basically every day. They aren’t as relevant in a momentum-period, but they’re not zero relevant.
Hrm. I think maybe what’s most dissatisfying right now is that I just haven’t compressed all the finnicky details of it, and it feels overwhelming to think about the entire “how to think” project, which is usually an indicator I am missing the right abstraction.