23 Years Old
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Mental Models about Necessary and sufficient conditions, and around your beliefs:
let’s say you say that “I need motivation to edit videos”.
- This seems to show that having motivation is necessary for editing videos.
- Formally, this means editing videos => having motivation
- but you can see that it’s not necessarily true
- You can edit without motivation.
- Then you can see that your claim is wrong
- Formalizing slows that down and lets you inspect it:
If i work hard, I will be successful.
- is this necessary, or sufficient? It’s not necessary, because people who win the lottery didn’t work too hard
- It’s sufficient, because if you work hard long enough, you will be successful. Your time will come
- So success is necessary for working hard (i.e. whenever hard work happens, success must also happen)
Also look at Causal Factors.
Also look at My opinions.
Thinking about the effort instead of the payout is the thing that keeps you being lazy.
- Overweighing the costs and underweighing the benefits
- hmm after a night, i dont know if i fully agree with this, because you need to do it For the love of the game
https://x.com/Adityapandeydev/status/2038113222931436011
You need a sense of urgency. Don’t you feel old? You’re already 23. Before you know it you will be 24. But there is perhaps this Sunk Cost Fallacy.
I find that I can lock in at the library pretty well, reaching flow state on demand. However, I should try to better to stick to my early schedule.
Things I want to achieve:
- Master japanese, korean, hindi
- 100k subscribers
- Publish paper to top conference (CoRL, RSS, NeurIPS), contributing to scientific literature
- (maybe?) Start company for robotics doing egocentric data and figuring out that recipe? It does seem like this is the way
- Make money on the side with startup
Reminders for myself:
- For 19-23 years old, you’ve been grinding. However, try to be really smart with your time. This is #1 advice that Jason Ma gave you. At every waking hour, be intentional with how you spend your time.
As yourself: Is this important to work on? Why are you doing this?
“I feel most alive when I build things that matter and people care that I made them.”
What are your metrics for the things that are important this year?
- Getting a few RL papers published under Jason/Dyna in the next 2-3 months, making core contributions in the RL field
- get to travel for this
- Getting multiple videos uploaded on YouTube related to robot learning / locomation
- inspire people
Get back on the toggl track grind.
I want to feel alive
You feel most alive when:
- You’re making something others couldn’t.
- People rely on you to move the needle.
- You’re pushing against the edge of what you understand — and pulling others with you.
That’s not fame.
That’s significance.
“I want to build something that only I could build — and share it so others feel the gravity.”
“I want to build intelligent systems that expand what humans and machines can do — and share that journey in a way that makes people feel like they can do the impossible too.”
That is: my youtube skills + engineering skills + research skills
“I feel most alive when I build things that matter and people care that I made them.”