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Tome.gg: How to leverage what you master in games
If you have been following my blog, you would know that I love learning. I love learning so much, that I find myself drawn to it whatever it is I’m doing- whether that’s talking to my friend that just recently became a father, playing competitive e-sports games, learning about in-game economics as I optimize my…
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How to choose directions: What do I want?
If you don’t choose a direction for yourself, someone else will pick it for you. Someone else will also tell you what is right and wrong. Someone else will tell you what is good and bad. And Someone else will tell you when you’re happy or not. “Would you tell me, please, which way I…
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How to get started Doing A Shitty Job
Stop being a perfectionist. Just put in the work, and put yourself out there. Get feedback and evaluate yourself respectfully, truthfully, and briefly. Then, get back to doing what you love to do. Making sure that everything is polished, correct, efficient, and pretty comes after. But how exactly? Watch other people. You’ll feel a lot…
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Direction, Strategy, Tactics, and Execution
Abstracting problem solving into four different levels enables you to categorically assess which scope is the most appropriate for your analysis. A policeman sees a drunk man searching for something under a streetlight and asks what the drunk has lost. He says he lost his keys and they both look under the streetlight together. After…
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Engine and deck building: how to assess opportunities
When playing a trading card game, how many cards are you able to take per turn from your deck? How many different decks do you have access to? Do you leverage your present turns such that it reinforces the you already have? Today we explore the concept of evaluating life similar to how trading card…
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The past, the present, the future me
Treating my past, present, and future selves as individuals that I interact with directly helps me optimize my life: increase happiness, reduce regrets, address laziness, and more. It is a mental model that teaches me how to be a good person- to myself. This generally guides my life. From this intra-personal omni-temporal relationship, I also…
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Being human, wise, clever, and hardworking
There were only a few hours left until the culminating tech presentation my team and I were preparing for. I find myself grinding out the last few bits of code hoping, praying that things will work- a situation no developer wants to be in. Murphy’s Law comes to mind. Why am in this situation? I…