Generating an exo-brain/conceptverse for myself helped me level up by seeing the upstream skills that underlie many subskills more clearly and then practice them, which is much more efficient than practicing lots of highly specific skills. I would advise against feeling like they need to hang together coherently. Trying to generate such a ‘perfect system’ seems to mostly be a waste of time as your ontology/knowledge representation schemes will change a lot as you improve your mind.
I can see why spending lots of resources into creating a perfect system might be both costly and easily made obsolete as I update.
However, I don’t think that having a mental concept-verse is “enough”, in the sense that I wouldn’t trust myself to easily find the right instantiation of a meta-skill for a specific situation. I’d rather shortcut the thinking time for that entirely and just add it as a routine / TAP.
I’m curious what sorts of “upstream skills” you find the most value from and what sorts of practice schemes you have tried to integrate them into your life.
At least for me, if I’m not deliberately practicing something, I find that I really won’t remember it or get value out of it consistently.
Generating an exo-brain/conceptverse for myself helped me level up by seeing the upstream skills that underlie many subskills more clearly and then practice them, which is much more efficient than practicing lots of highly specific skills. I would advise against feeling like they need to hang together coherently. Trying to generate such a ‘perfect system’ seems to mostly be a waste of time as your ontology/knowledge representation schemes will change a lot as you improve your mind.
Here’s one instantiation of such that I still use sometimes: http://conceptspace.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Lists_of_Concepts
Hey Romeo,
I can see why spending lots of resources into creating a perfect system might be both costly and easily made obsolete as I update.
However, I don’t think that having a mental concept-verse is “enough”, in the sense that I wouldn’t trust myself to easily find the right instantiation of a meta-skill for a specific situation. I’d rather shortcut the thinking time for that entirely and just add it as a routine / TAP.
I’m curious what sorts of “upstream skills” you find the most value from and what sorts of practice schemes you have tried to integrate them into your life.
At least for me, if I’m not deliberately practicing something, I find that I really won’t remember it or get value out of it consistently.