Journal entries

• 2025-03-26

  Two people, A and B, may have apparently different levels of “work ethic”, but will in fact have the exact same absolute amount, but only allocate it differently. Person A will put near a 100% towards a job and will be perceived as a “hardcore” worker. Person B will limit the allocation to a much smaller fraction, and will be perceived as normal. Bosses will want A more than B, but doing A only makes sense if your upside is not limited (which it is in most cases). If you are an entrepreneur, your upside is almost unlimited, but if you’re an employee, your upside is almost by definition limited, therefore it makes sense to limit the allocation.

• 2025-02-11

  Claude is getting a little bit stupid with probabilities. I think I’ve started believing the LLM a little too much, and have started forgetting how dumb they actually are. It’s not exactly an autocomplete, but it’s not a reasoning machine. To be fair, most people aren’t either. But at least you can have some reasoning episodes, and the LLM cannot (at least still cannot).

• 2025-02-08

  Discipline equals freedom. Except for those things where you should actually stop doing the thing because you obviously don’t want to be doing the thing.

  And except for those things where there’s a systemic pressure which you cannot overcome through sheer force of discipline.

  And except for those things where luck is the most dominant factor.

  And except for those things where you can only invest discipline in a small subset of things, none of which will perform the macro changes necessary for your desired change in life.

  But yeah, discipline equals freedom in all other situations.

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• 2025-02-07

  First entry. I want to have a short-form journal in addition to my main posts.