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2025 year in review | Kevin Liu

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One step closer to the irreducible loss of the data

Value updates I find it helpful to keep a doc describing my values. (It’s like the Model Spec , but for humans.) The primary benefits I see: It lets you spend less time thinking through the same tradeoffs on individual decisions. For example, I didn’t know if I wanted to spend money on DoorDash vs. investing upfront and recurring time into learning to cook. At some point I got fed up with thinking it through every time and just wrote the decision down. You get the chance to think through tradeoffs more deeply. I think this is helpful to avoid falling into the trap of doing something because it

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