I tend to try to do things that I think are in my comparative advantage. This post hammered home the point that comparative advantage exists along multiple dimensions. For example, as a pseudo-student, I have almost no accumulated career capital, so I risk less by doing projects that might not pan out (under the assumption that career capital gets less useful over time). This fact can be combined other properties I have to more precisely determine comparative advantage.
This post also gives the useful intuition that being good at multiple things exponentially cuts down the number of people you’re competing with. I use this heuristic a reasonable amount when trying to decide the best projects to be working on.
I tend to try to do things that I think are in my comparative advantage. This post hammered home the point that comparative advantage exists along multiple dimensions. For example, as a pseudo-student, I have almost no accumulated career capital, so I risk less by doing projects that might not pan out (under the assumption that career capital gets less useful over time). This fact can be combined other properties I have to more precisely determine comparative advantage.
This post also gives the useful intuition that being good at multiple things exponentially cuts down the number of people you’re competing with. I use this heuristic a reasonable amount when trying to decide the best projects to be working on.