Operating Principles

Each of the following is something that I have learnt both 'conceptually', i.e. through absorbing other people's ideas, and 'viscerally', i.e. by running into it through my own experiences. I believe that these ideas are worth sharing:

1. 1. Writing is the cleanest way to catch yourself thinking.
2. 2. Impatience, audacity, and persistence are underrated. Do it now, do it wrong, keep doing it. Action/+error generates real information.
3. 3. It's our moral duty not to adapt to the world, but to re-engineer it and leave it less stupid than we found it.
4. 4. We are tied down by invisible orthodoxy; the laws of physics are the only limit.
5. 5. Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible. -- https://homebrew.nyc/manifesto
6. 6. Most people fail from respecting constraints that aren't real.
7. 7. Ask. Ask incessantly.
8. 8. Nothing is sacred, everything is sacred. The only sin is dissociation.
9. 9. Resist the urge to be legible too early.
10. 10. Provision independent judgment before you optimize anything else.