“A change of perspective is worth 80 IQ points.”
The restrictions we face on airplanes is what makes the experience so liberating.
Flying is accidentally the best ever environment for DEEP work and reflection.
Writers like @rickygervais do their best work on airplanes.
Here's 6 reasons why.
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“A change of perspective is worth 80 IQ points.”
The restrictions we face on airplanes is what makes the experience so liberating.
You can't find any escapes.
If you try to escape, you face death.
Negative incentives are built into the system.
"Incentives are a super power." - Charlie Munger
There's no newsfeeds to refresh. No emails to reply to.
It's like knowing your heroin dealer is in a coma.
Boredom is built into the system.
Your monkey mind can't access dopamine - so it starts creating its own.
1. No socialising - You don't know anyone. No small talk.
2. No sound inputs - The engine acts as white noise.
3. No visual inputs - The seating structure means you see barely anybody.
If you're flying, you're on your way to an experience. (Flying to)
Or you have just had one. (Flying back)
Meaning your mind is racing with ideas.
There's a built-in barbell effect of ZERO stimulation right next to INTENSE stimulation.
There's never 0% stimulation. And here's never 100% intense stimulation.
We are at a constant 50%.
There's no intensity. And there's no reflection.
Over time, life feels num
You know every few hours someone will come round and offer you food.
Your mind doesn't have to make food plans.
And the awful food is a feature rather than a bug - you eat less and keep a clear head.
The awful seating on planes forces you to stay upright
Meditation 101 - It's easier to calm your mind when you have an upright posture
And if you try and decline your seat by 10% - there's negative social incentives built into the system
There are no algorithms powered by years of viewing data that knows what exact content to distract you with.
It's awful Hollywood flops and TV series.
Another feature that people think is a bug - it's easy to not watch em.
1. High exit costs
2. Minimal external inputs
3. Opposite experience before/after to look forward to / reflect on
4. Nutrition taken care of
5. No access to distraction driven algorithms
6. Upright posture
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Twitter Advanced search on steroids.
Whenever you visit someone's account, see their most popular Tweets of all time in order.
H/T @Julian for this
https://t.co/8P2YJ3Jrf0
2. Good UI
Historical log of successful and failed A/B tests from the likes of Amazon, Netflix, Google
3. Blisk
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Got an Android user complaining how your website looks but you only have an iPhone? Use Blisk.
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I can second this observation through personal experience. I was only able to start writing because "it's just dumb weeb fanfiction quests, who cares." 100,000 pages of dumb weeb fanfic later, and I actually got better... but only because I was trying my best with every page.
"It's dumb weeb fanfiction" gave me permission to be bad, to vomit things onto the page that I knew fell far short of what I wanted it to be. To just write and write instead of laboring over six paragraphs for weeks like I'd always done before.
But I still *wanted* to be good.
Writing is HARD. And unfortunately, most people don't appreciate just how hard writing (or communication in general) is, and that cultural attitude infects writers, too.
You must give yourself permission to be bad. And realize that all writing is practice.
IT. COUNTS.
And as the folks in my mentions are pointing
... it's an excellent way to find out what actually resonates with other people - putting work out there. Even your early bad stuff you'll cringe at later.
What resonates is NOT easy to tell, because we all, inherently cringe at ourselves, a lot.
I think the mistake a lot of people make is that they write to make a good work instead of writing to make themselves a better writer (who will eventually be able to make good works). The second promotes training and builds humility while the first is just narcissism.
— Dan Kim (@CloneManga) October 31, 2020
"It's dumb weeb fanfiction" gave me permission to be bad, to vomit things onto the page that I knew fell far short of what I wanted it to be. To just write and write instead of laboring over six paragraphs for weeks like I'd always done before.
But I still *wanted* to be good.
Writing is HARD. And unfortunately, most people don't appreciate just how hard writing (or communication in general) is, and that cultural attitude infects writers, too.
You must give yourself permission to be bad. And realize that all writing is practice.
IT. COUNTS.
And as the folks in my mentions are pointing
It gave us hellcow, so it clearly worked
— Argatson (@warhammer651) October 31, 2020
... it's an excellent way to find out what actually resonates with other people - putting work out there. Even your early bad stuff you'll cringe at later.
What resonates is NOT easy to tell, because we all, inherently cringe at ourselves, a lot.
\u201cDumb weeb X\u201d is a concept with a lot of power.
— J (@Becquerl1) October 31, 2020
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Decoded his way of analysis/logics for everyone to easily understand.
Have covered:
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2. Workbook
3. When to sell options
4. Diff category of days
5. How movement of option prices tell us what will happen
1. Keeps following volatility super closely.
Makes 7-8 different strategies to give him a sense of what's going on.
Whichever gives highest profit he trades in.
2. Theta falls when market moves.
Falls where market is headed towards not on our original position.
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Decoded his way of analysis/logics for everyone to easily understand.
Have covered:
1. Analysis of volatility, how to foresee/signs.
2. Workbook
3. When to sell options
4. Diff category of days
5. How movement of option prices tell us what will happen
1. Keeps following volatility super closely.
Makes 7-8 different strategies to give him a sense of what's going on.
Whichever gives highest profit he trades in.
I am quite different from your style. I follow the market's volatility very closely. I have mock positions in 7-8 different strategies which allows me to stay connected. Whichever gives best profit is usually the one i trade in.
— Sarang Sood (@SarangSood) August 13, 2019
2. Theta falls when market moves.
Falls where market is headed towards not on our original position.
Anilji most of the time these days Theta only falls when market moves. So the Theta actually falls where market has moved to, not where our position was in the first place. By shifting we can come close to capturing the Theta fall but not always.
— Sarang Sood (@SarangSood) June 24, 2019
3. If you're an options seller then sell only when volatility is dropping, there is a high probability of you making the right trade and getting profit as a result
He believes in a market operator, if market mover sells volatility Sarang Sir joins him.
This week has been great so far. The main aim is to be in the right side of the volatility, rest the market will reward.
— Sarang Sood (@SarangSood) July 3, 2019
4. Theta decay vs Fall in vega
Sell when Vega is falling rather than for theta decay. You won't be trapped and higher probability of making profit.
There is a difference between theta decay & fall in vega. Decay is certain but there is no guaranteed profit as delta moves can increase cost. Fall in vega on the other hand is backed by a powerful force that sells options and gives handsome returns. Our job is to identify them.
— Sarang Sood (@SarangSood) February 12, 2020
