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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- Kevin Xu
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- Dillon Nguyen
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- Dive inmindingourway.com
- Do Thing, Do One Thingjason.ml
- chemistry needs contactfishinapool.substack.com
- Conviction is the Scarcest Resource: Dialogues About Convictionblog.aayushg.com
- No one can teach you to have conviction | benkuhn.netbenkuhn.net
- Conviction is the Scarcest Resource: Essays About Gaining Real Convictionblog.aayushg.com
- chemistry needs contactsubstack.com
- Terminate deliberation based on resilience, not certainty – Gregory Lewisgregoryjlewis.com
- Hugging the X-Axis - David Perellperell.com
- you'll make worse decisions by thinking about themaadillpickle.substack.com
- How to commit to the few right things | thesephist.comthesephist.com
- On Commitment & Optionality - Andrew Reaandrewrea.substack.com