I think a pattern that makes sense to me is cycles of exploration and exploitation: learn about the world, act on that understanding, use the observations you acquired from acting to guide further learning, etc. The world is big and complicated enough that I think you don’t hit anything close to diminishing marginal returns on asking “why?” (my experience, if anything, has been increasing marginal returns as I’ve gotten better at learning things), although I agree that it’s important to get some acting going on in there too.
I think a pattern that makes sense to me is cycles of exploration and exploitation: learn about the world, act on that understanding, use the observations you acquired from acting to guide further learning, etc. The world is big and complicated enough that I think you don’t hit anything close to diminishing marginal returns on asking “why?” (my experience, if anything, has been increasing marginal returns as I’ve gotten better at learning things), although I agree that it’s important to get some acting going on in there too.
I agree, but this probably wasn’t true in our ancient evolutionary environment.