- 2026-03-15
- Just a really quick thing so I can get this out of apple notes
- I’ve already been trying to improve my thinking and knowledge for years. This framing of “I’m a shit thinker!” is imprecise and disempowering. I’ve made a bunch of progress in this realm, I’ve been praised at various jobs for meta-cognition and etc, blah blah blah
- I read part of the Jacobus book that Attila recommended here - Recommended readings from one of my mentors, 2026-03-13, the first introductory chapter on how to read critically, and was like, “oh sick, I’ve been doing this for years, I’ve figured a lot of this out”. I think I’m a few additional mental moves and some training in logic (<50 hours, <100 hours of training, surely, probably) from being really good, unusually good
- I notice how dreadful most people around me are at thinking. The inferential leaps they make without realising, the thought-stopping they do, the way they convince themselves of stuff immediately without considering alternative POVs, etc. How easy it is to break apart their arguments, their plans. Etc.
- So, I’m probably already like 90% there! And it’s been chanda the whole way (Chanda)
- Also - most people haven’t experienced kensho, haven’t realised that there’s layer 1 vs layer 2. Always peering at the world through their abstractions, etc. People are very confused, and believe their bullshit. They don’t realise how much delusion is in their system, their experience. (The whole maya thing, a part of the Jed McKenna books that I really like. Entire lives built on delusions, false sense of self, poor philosophy, confusions etc)