Fun and games
Having an adventure time cooking and making matcha for family. Learned you can’t really trust much that you see. Need to learn about craftsmanship and good primary sources. Just like career advice is biased by the experiences of the giver. You need to try to gain your own first-hand experiences to really learn and know what to do and if something is for you.
Lots of growth in delegating to agents, AI or otherwise, but good to have always done something yourself to know the nuances and difficulties. It keeps us sharp to go back to basics and doing things ourselves once in a while. Not sure what’s the right ratio. Must keep experimenting.
Experiments should have good hypotheses that you’ve got an educated prediction on. These help shape the specifications and outcomes you want to test for. They provide a safety net as you continually change.
From cooking to sports, you’ll want a recipe you’ve worked on and refined, but also testing small changes to it. Often times, these nuances are crucial for higher performance.
Even as just a consumer, you can order your favorite dim sum, and try out new dishes to expand your palate. The 1/e (37%) balance of breadth vs depth or explore vs exploit is applicable to so many parts of life.
In teaching the kids, you want them to master basic life skills like reading and writing. By working on colors, then, letters and phonics with games like “I spy,” you can quiz them for fun with easy things they know 2/3s of the time and new, harder things 1/3 of time.
It’s been great to see the kids grow as they naturally have new experiences with family members. From sliding down the snow on their butts, to their feet, to watching olympians at the highest level.
Growing is more fun when it’s like the entrepreneurial hustle. You keep discovering new things that people want and you help them get it. Money is just an easy way to keep score.
When you play games like Puzzle Fighter, no one really cares about the points you get. The fun is in the process, the back and forth, and only finally the victory.
Much like probabilistic games like poker, sometimes you can do the right thing and still lose. There’s always that chance. You need to be consistent and resilient despite these so you can survive and thrive longer term.