Thinking and decision-making

I don't want to be yet another "mental models guy". (Even if my Mind Expander project might tell you otherwise...)

Instead of covering the same stuff anyone else is, I try to ask somewhat original questions:

• What's the value of signaling in the digital era?
• How could we adapt our hunter-gatherer brain to the modern world of abundance, exponentiality and leverage?
• What mainstream things will feel bizarre in 50 years?
• What’s an idea that, once you hear about it, you see everywhere?
• What common knowledge is actually negative in value? What does everyone think is true but actually isn't?

Big ideas

• I believe almost anyone can get smarter by merely limiting their exposure to information - yes, limiting! - instead of acquiring more knowledge. Information can replace one's intelligence.
• Principles to improve your life and the world: Not “maximum positive impact” but “most reliable positive impact”; Focus mostly on your immediate circle; Improve real things, not numbers
• Debug your brain. The environment has changed. Your brain hasn't.
• Signaling may help you in the short-term, but not long-term.
• What would it look like if I solved this problem by reduction, not addition?