Starting something always has an entry / barrier cost.
And you kinda have to pay that every time you start. So focus on the thing (load it ihto your RAM) and then rlly do that.
Only ever compare yourself to yourself some time ago.
How to learn new things
Do not build them from scratch / go into miniscule details, trying to understand every bit.
→ Take a top down approach.
Use existing tools.
Get familiar with the concepts, write them down.
Talk about it / practice with others.
Get your hands dirty, practice.
How to master things
Build them from scratch.
Explain it to others (at different levels).
Essential learning routines / habits.
Read
Exercise
Write
Produce
Don’t compete with somone in an area where it is play for them but work for you.
Capitalism’s mis-alignment with humans is a huge productivity loss.
Long story short: Capitalism intrinsically and obviously - for almost every working class person experiencing it every day - does not align our work with our intrinsic motivations.
On a personal note: If I work on something I am uninterested in / I don’t see the immediate purpose of, my productivity is laughably low, it turns into mostly procrastination.
On the contrary, when I just go with the flow of what I feel like doing in the moment, I am unstoppable. This is specific to my circumstances, as what I feel like doing (if I am well rested and fed and temperature is right and - big and - my addictions are supressed) aligns very much with my terminal goals. To an extreme, that if there are multiple things I could be working on that lead to my terminal goals, then if I pick one that I am less in the mood for over another, say for some arbitrary internal constraint I set myself, then it will end up in procrastination all the same.
References
Nice talk by Yannic: https://video.ethz.ch/events/2022/masterfeier_d-infk.html
Key takeaways from How Generalists Win In The Information Age.
The RAM thing comes from karpathy tweets I think.