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Everything, everywhere, everywhen; right here, right now, forever.

It’s a first principle guide, like the North Star or a stable feature on the horizon when you are hiking a substantial distance.

Of course I have to walk that first principle back, but I feel like super long term thinking is a pretty good guide.

Pretending I have infinite time, but want everything as soon as I can get it, motivates me to attack the most difficult problems I can, that would make the most difference.

These tend to be problems whose solutions help other people too.

We are only 13.8 billion years old! There are only 8 billion of us. So much future space and time, with so much to learn and do!



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