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My one big fear right now is that a mod could delete my words, and they would be lost forever.
Sometimes I write long essays here. They are ideas that I think are important and original. I write them so people will be able to read them many years into the future.
It’s important that anything deleted by a mod or an admin can be saved by the creator afterwards.
I’d argue it’s necessary that nothing can ever be fully deleted, if you want people to ever write anything important here.
That’s why historically most of the most important world-change essays were written to newspapers. Once a newspaper is published, it is available forever. It can never be expunged.
This is actually not stupid.
I also laughed when I first heard about it (5 minutes ago).
We focus a lot on managing time. But there are other finite resources we have to manage within each day.
* mental energy
* attention
* physical energy
* concentration
* frustration
* creativity
* patience
* many more
You can only spend so much of each one before becoming exhausted.
Spoon theory deals with one of these things - physical energy. And the article is well explained. So it's a good introduction to this kind of thinking.
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You can go much further in this thinking than the article. Think about management. You normally assign tasks to whoever has the free time. But people have different amounts of patience to spend each day. So if one of your people has a lot of patience, you should assign him the task, because he can spend a lot before running out.
But if you have two tasks requiring a lot of patience, that guy might run out. So you assign the second task to someone else.
It's basically very intuitive. But it's helpful to think about it the same way we think about time. To quantify it.
Consider two contradictory statements—"All lemons are yellow" and "Not all lemons are yellow"—and suppose that both are true. If that is the case, anything can be proven, e.g., the assertion that "unicorns exist", by using the following argument:
We know that "Not all lemons are yellow", as it has been assumed to be true.
We know that "All lemons are yellow", as it has been assumed to be true.
Therefore, the two-part statement "All lemons are yellow or unicorns exist" must also be true, since the first part "All lemons are yellow" of the two-part statement is true (as this has been assumed).
However, since we know that "Not all lemons are yellow" (as this has been assumed), the first part is false, and hence the second part must be true to ensure the two-part statement to be true, i.e., unicorns exist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_explosion
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