• Don't think outside the box - find the box.

  • When faced with an impossible problem, identify the real constraints. Ask yourself: "Does it have to be done this way? Does it have to be done at all?"

• inside box thinking

  • advantages of inside the box thinking
    • wins in the short term fights
    • has optimization capacities
    • optimizes for the finite domain of the short term you are identifying
  • will often lose in the long term
    • errors continues to build
    • mania for maintaining its integrity continues to build
      • bullshit conundrum
      • then you have to go though some clarity hit rock bottom moments to shake your Psychology out of that.

• anker rationality at the ethical

  • its a disposition and a practice of maintaining of integrity and conformity with reality, superseding up do anything that is optimized, that will be locally effective but at the cost of reducing global effectiveness, is the basis of rationality

• linear-non-linear thinking

• infinite-game

Links

• You're Stuck in a Box Jorden Hall
• Squinting At Stories