Deliberate Once
Here's a question I get asked pretty regularly: OK, I'm sold on this whole "do the best you can" thing, but how do you actually commit? When I look at my available options, none of them look great. I can take the one that seems best (despite its
Here's a question I get asked pretty regularly: OK, I'm sold on this whole "do the best you can" thing, but how do you actually commit? When I look at my available options, none of them look great. I can take the one that seems best (despite its flaws), but then I keep doubting myself the whole time, and wondering whether there isn't something better I could be doing. For example, I'm currently [doing a PhD|running a startup|earning to give|working at an EA org], and I keep wondering whether I should instead be [switching majors|running a startup|earning to give|working at a different org], an
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- Tony Wang
- Klaudia U.
- Benjamin Laufer
- Katherine Slattery
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- Lydia Nottingham
- Arianne Ghislaine Rull
- Kevin Xu
- Carolanne Jiang
- Dillon Nguyen
related reading
- Dive inmindingourway.com
- Do Thing, Do One Thingjason.ml
- Staring into the abyss as a core life skill — LessWronglesswrong.com
- Conviction is the Scarcest Resource: Essays About Gaining Real Convictionblog.aayushg.com
- Obvious advicemindingourway.com
- The correct response to uncertainty is *not* half-speed — LessWronglesswrong.com
- Terminate deliberation based on resilience, not certainty – Gregory Lewisgregoryjlewis.com
- Conviction is the Scarcest Resource: Dialogues About Convictionblog.aayushg.com
- How to commit to the few right things | thesephist.comthesephist.com
- You're allowed to be inconsistentmindingourway.com
- Some Painful Questions We Ask Ourselvessashachapin.substack.com
- Don't Dithersarahconstantin.substack.com