Skill: cognitive black box flight recorder

Table of Contents 1 The flight recorder 2 Altered states and lost information 3 The black box recorder skill 4 Why black box ...

Very short summary: It’s especially valuable to Notice while in mental states that make Noticing especially difficult, so it’s valuable to learn that skill. Short summary: If you’re going to enter, or are currently in, a cognitive state that is very irrational / overwhelmed / degraded / constrained / poisoned / tribalistic / unendorsed / etc., then you may as well also keep a little part of yourself paying at least a bit of attention to what it’s like and what’s going on and recording that information, so that you get that sweet sweet juicy valuable data that’s hard to get. As legend has…

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• Yudhister Joel Kumar
• Taymoor Farooq
• SUJASH AGRAWAL

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