Metrics are not always useful.
I want to post with higher quality.
Writing a high-quality blog post every day is only feasible if it is your primary focus. For me, I want to blog for the purpose of teaching myself. To do this, I shouldn’t need to think, “What am I going to write today?” Recently, I’ve been watching a lot of interviews with Naval, and one major theme is that he was very unhappy when he was in the role of CEO at his company. It was only when he allowed himself time to think that he was able to stop avoiding the deeper issues within his company and his life. He then went on to hire a highly competent CEO and watched the company do even better without him at the helm.
Naval is now highly selective about how he spends his time. He doesn’t keep a schedule but is still constantly busy doing things he wants to do. The best learning is born of curiosity and free exploration. As I am fortunate to have the freedom I do at this point in my life, I am going to begin actively tearing down constraints on my time and energy. I’m not going to commit to daily posts. However, I still might post every day—no more constraints. I want to give myself the freedom to take a week to explore a topic in extreme depth, without any other responsibilities draining that energy.
In many ways, depth compounds. The more you grow in a specific skill, the more desirable you become to the world. The top 1% of artists earn more than the 99% below them. I am once again reading “The Beginning of Infinity” by David Deutsch. This is a book gaining recognition among people like Naval, Brett Hall, and many others deep in tech. David Deutsch is considered the godfather of quantum computing, having made significant contributions to the field of quantum electrodynamics (QED). He showed that a quantum computer could efficiently model the behavior of any physical system, solving problems intractable for classical computers. Deutsch now presents revolutionary ideas regarding the creation and evolution of knowledge (epistemology) in his books “The Fabric of Reality” and “The Beginning of Infinity.”
These are not easy reads and will likely take me years to fully digest. However, I won’t post summaries until I have something truly worthwhile to share. I am looking to make the most of my most formative years, so I have about eight years to learn everything that is most important. The information I gather before I turn 25 will likely have the most significant impact on my overall qualities in the years to come.
Thank you for reading. From now on, I will focus more on important problems, whether it’s reading, making progress on the design and implementation of the robot arm, or building different projects altogether. Expect detailed, topic-focused posts to come.
high signal, low noise.
