guides across

1. difficulty's a qualifier of the path.  lifting is the norm. everything is on the other side of what you are now.

2. play. intuition comes with play. with intuition comes results. with results comes movement. so plonk your fingers on the piano keys until you're satisfied

3. expertise is territory covered. comes from movement

4. cadence is a super weapon. fire and motion. one true step a day. one boring thing done well for a year can beat geniuses in the field.  it's like trees

5. writing is a super weapon. cold cognition is a super weapon. intellectualising your own activity is in<cannot-do-without>. writing and shipping helps with that. so does having unbiased objective peers/colleagues/friends/partners.  a partner should be able to see your blind spots as you share goals but not egos. 

6. scruffy is good. being a walking blooper is normal when you're a learner/doer. you'll be doing half-baked cakes for a long time. if you're looking to ship perfect cakes from day 1 week 1 etc you are doomed. you'll rocket when you commit to learning but get the insight the doing is one of the best forms of learning

7. slow is fast

8. respect space and time needs of things

9. first and last be a good animal

10. some people have the tangentialism disease rampant. others have the zero-tangentialism disease. the balance is to be worked at every point, like all balances it is an actual equilibrium with forward and backward reactions running simultaneously. another interesting one is being-doing-having

11. fight back. don't fold easily

12. all growth is beyond seemingly unbreakable walls around you

13. feedback is life. life is consciousness. without feedback without consciousness, all is jus a black cat in an unlit coal cellar on a moonless night. Corollary - one way to get feedback is to do the opposite of what you are doing.go slow or fast if you were going fast or slow before.  or stop doing something.  do the same thing but stop using a key component. do it alone. do it with somebody else. see someone else do the same thing. Also see 5

14. whatever idea you have , rest assured, a million more have already had it or having it( especially in india). work hard fast and seek feedback quick. similarly, any problem you face, a million more will be facing it. solve it well, and charge for it, if possible, or give it away if you can't, it'll come back to you

15. cognition works by comparing, compounding, or abstracting.

16. critical thinking - things don't exist or not exist, rather a thing's existence is the set of behaviours, and boundaries where it stops . for eg, a cup's visual boundary is the plane of your vision. it's impinging on your retina is its behaviour.

17. lessons from the tao - surf the li, hold fast to the middle, remember the useless tree and the skilled butcher

18. the universe is fractal

19. the world is as it presents

20. when in doubt, take the next step. the journey of a thousand miles doesn't really exist, but manifests one step at a time. when stuck, remember, you only get better fighting a better opponent. the motorcycle you're working on is always yourself

21. incomplete information - you are almost always going to take decisions as an asshole or a jerk or an idiot. don't assume otherwise or get complacent. else you'll start seeing what you assume. Feedback from the real world will knock your teeth out and fracture your ribs. Feedback from a good partner will be a tight slap across the face if lucky, or absence if not. Also see 13

22. you see what you believe. so it is imperative that you keep faith in goodness. mcluhan with his twin-inlet-engine did so too.

23. originality is a fake god. there is nothing new on the earth. there have been billions of people already. your chance of being original is worse than winning a lottery ticket while being hit by lightning. do the boring tasks, copy good ideas, make replicas first.

24. your office and home are both places where you go to work. to give.