Taking time to reflect, trust your intuition, pursue things cheaply and quickly, and take a break can be beneficial for optimizing physical and mental productivity and creating value in uncertain ways.
Reflecting on my journey, I learned that it takes brutal honesty to figure out which projects are working and angel investing teaches humility.
I read dozens of textbooks, learned about nuclear engineering, AI, synthetic biology, and investing, traveled, reconnected with friends and family, and helped people in need.
Most of the projects I tried didn't work out, but the seeds were planted for things that worked in deep ways later.
It takes brutal honesty to figure out which projects are working and which you are trying to convince yourself are working.
Angel investing teaches humility and the magnitude of successes must pay for all failures.
Playing poker in college can teach you about the world, business, psychology, risk, and more.
Prioritizing focus and creating accountability groups can help increase productivity and create value in uncertain ways.
Reading books, biographies, and blogs about successful people and projects can help to understand risk and create value.
Focus and prioritization are key to getting things done efficiently.
Creating small groups of accountability buddies and following a simple weekly email and quarterly check-in system can help increase productivity.
People feel that all the innovation has already happened, but it is still happening and the Internet is a triumph of humanity where the best people want to work.
We're close to an answer on how to fund projects that don't have the same appeal as AGI, but will create value for the world on a long time frame in uncertain ways.