I think it’s sort of inevitable that general-vectors lists like this will have a lot of entries that have the “this is much easier to do when you’re already in a good position” property, but that the underlying effect is much more a divergent-feedback property of the environment and not specific to the list. So I’d say something like:
It’s important not to get stuck in the victim mindset where you give up and/or rebel because you can’t do the same things to obtain wins that are easy for people in better situations. In more collective, adversarial situations, the balance of social emotions may skew toward doing otherwise as a tactic, but communities where that’s a steady state trend unhealthy in the medium to long term, and I don’t think there’s a lot of cases where deciding it on your own is actually a win.
If you’re in a worse situation than allows the direct use of an idea, but not so much worse that there’s an uncrossable gap, most of these degrade gracefully to “maybe keep an eye out for this”. I can’t afford a second monitor right now (this is true in reality), but I can remember to revisit the idea if I have more money later. But someone who won’t realistically be in a position to own any computing devices for the next decade should discard that item entirely.
Adjacent to (2), if a gap looks uncrossable but you want it not to be, consider that some of that might be an illusion, and that you might be able to improve your imagination and look for possibilities you’ve missed. Extending your range of thought is something that’s encouraged a lot here. If you hold on too strongly to “you shouldn’t even be talking about things like that”, that can set you up to fall into #47 (which I think is one of the more universal ones).
All the same, calibration to “what level and type of things people are in a position to care about right now” is one of the big implicit cultural and situational specificity elements I mentioned in passing elsewhere. If you’re way off from the implied target audience for too much of the list, maybe it’s not worth bothering. #31 (which I also think is one of the more universal ones) sort of implies this. (However, I don’t think it’s practical to expect a list of anything more than platitudes to make no such assumptions.)
… but to combine (4) with (3), lines of thought go very differently depending on whether you use “you shouldn’t even be talking about that” or “I don’t care about this list right now” as an interpretation. The latter opens up more agency for doing something about it.
If what you mean is more like “hey, are you even thinking about the possibility that some of these might be impossible”, then I would agree with you that it’s generally a good idea to notice the context dependence when composing things like this (which is in fact why I mentioned it elsewhere), but stopping at that idea doesn’t lead to much. If you want a different outcome, starting by clarifying in your own mind what that would be like helps more; for instance, “I would like to see similar lists with different implied audiences” is not a bad idea (though there are ways of instantiating it unproductively).
All of the above, themselves, of course assume a certain amount of value compatibility…
Where is the tip when #57 and #58 are not avoidable and are #34 ?
Many of those tips remind me of the famous tip “It’s better to be rich and healthy than poor and sick”
Its technically true but miss the point.
I think it’s sort of inevitable that general-vectors lists like this will have a lot of entries that have the “this is much easier to do when you’re already in a good position” property, but that the underlying effect is much more a divergent-feedback property of the environment and not specific to the list. So I’d say something like:
It’s important not to get stuck in the victim mindset where you give up and/or rebel because you can’t do the same things to obtain wins that are easy for people in better situations. In more collective, adversarial situations, the balance of social emotions may skew toward doing otherwise as a tactic, but communities where that’s a steady state trend unhealthy in the medium to long term, and I don’t think there’s a lot of cases where deciding it on your own is actually a win.
If you’re in a worse situation than allows the direct use of an idea, but not so much worse that there’s an uncrossable gap, most of these degrade gracefully to “maybe keep an eye out for this”. I can’t afford a second monitor right now (this is true in reality), but I can remember to revisit the idea if I have more money later. But someone who won’t realistically be in a position to own any computing devices for the next decade should discard that item entirely.
Adjacent to (2), if a gap looks uncrossable but you want it not to be, consider that some of that might be an illusion, and that you might be able to improve your imagination and look for possibilities you’ve missed. Extending your range of thought is something that’s encouraged a lot here. If you hold on too strongly to “you shouldn’t even be talking about things like that”, that can set you up to fall into #47 (which I think is one of the more universal ones).
All the same, calibration to “what level and type of things people are in a position to care about right now” is one of the big implicit cultural and situational specificity elements I mentioned in passing elsewhere. If you’re way off from the implied target audience for too much of the list, maybe it’s not worth bothering. #31 (which I also think is one of the more universal ones) sort of implies this. (However, I don’t think it’s practical to expect a list of anything more than platitudes to make no such assumptions.)
… but to combine (4) with (3), lines of thought go very differently depending on whether you use “you shouldn’t even be talking about that” or “I don’t care about this list right now” as an interpretation. The latter opens up more agency for doing something about it.
If what you mean is more like “hey, are you even thinking about the possibility that some of these might be impossible”, then I would agree with you that it’s generally a good idea to notice the context dependence when composing things like this (which is in fact why I mentioned it elsewhere), but stopping at that idea doesn’t lead to much. If you want a different outcome, starting by clarifying in your own mind what that would be like helps more; for instance, “I would like to see similar lists with different implied audiences” is not a bad idea (though there are ways of instantiating it unproductively).
All of the above, themselves, of course assume a certain amount of value compatibility…