First off, “the boy doesn’t have a business plan,” so it’s worth asking, is THINKING what helps when I am in this doubtful state about What should I do next? --- Values First Would mean deciding what to do based on fun, forgiveness, simplicity, self-knowledge, and humor. --- ”Global Wayfinding” is a phrase I hear from Qiaochu on Tasshin, but I think “Global Wayfinding” actually comes from Mark Lippman’s [meditationbook.page/](https://meditationbook.page/) “So once you start reflecting on your own actions, you're like, what if some of the stuff I did was bad and I should do different stuff? Then you need some kind of way to figure out what to do, what to do in some kind of compass to navigate by. And from my understanding of global wayfinding is that it refers to the process of both following such a compass and also deciding what compass to follow, which gets very twisty because how do you decide what compass to follow? You can't do anything other than using the compasses you already have. So this is very twisty, recursive nature to it, where deciding what to follow involves deciding how to decide what to follow. For example, you might be like, oh, maybe I should, you start reflecting on your behavior, and it's like, oh, maybe I should do things that are morally good. Maybe I should learn what moral goodness is. Maybe I should go read some philosophy and adopt a moral philosophy and then try to follow that philosophy. So that's an example of the kind of global way finding you could do. For me personally, another thing[…]” From Reach Truth Podcast: Materialism and Metatherapy with Qiaochu Yuan, Dec 8, 2021 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/reach-truth-podcast/id1571237401?i=1000544268325&r=10556 This material may be protected by copyright. --- Dinesh Interview has a bunch of stuff about blind spots and starting off from a place of avoidance or cope, which turns into a bottleneck later. Dinesh is being interviewed in the context of Tasshin’s interest in mentorship. The mentor is the one who can help the mentee see into their blind spot, I think… Dinesh talks about models, faulty models and context-independent models. So the “step” I guess is making sure you’re updating your models. And maybe you find a mentor to help you update your models… --- Cedric Chin episode is basically about extracting expert knowledge, which is usually tacit, not easily expressed in words. So that framework for deciding what to do is, Look at what experts have done, try to understand how they did it.