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Category: Theory

The importance trap

Doing unimportant things makes you lucky

Brian Lui Theory 4 Comments August 18, 2021August 19, 2021 2 Minutes

Upside decay

Why some people and some organizations never get lucky

Brian Lui Theory 21 Comments October 6, 2020 6 Minutes

Beware of tight feedback loops

Tight feedback loops are seductive because they give us the feeling of rapid improvement. And it’s true that in the early stages of learning a craft, tight feedback loops do help us improve quickly.

Brian Lui Theory, Tools 7 Comments May 10, 2020 11 Minutes

Harmful Progress

Creating value can harm you.

Brian Lui Theory Leave a comment June 18, 2019June 18, 2019 7 Minutes

Thoughts From The Bay

I recently visited San Francisco and met many people from a variety of tech and tech-adjacent areas. I also walked around the city and travelled to nearby Bay Area locations. I came away with several findings.

Brian Lui Stories, Theory 1 Comment December 27, 2018July 21, 2019 15 Minutes

Dimensional decoupling

Inversion asks, “what if something was the opposite?” Dimensional decoupling asks, “what if something wasn’t an opposite?”

Brian Lui Theory, Tools 2 Comments May 19, 2018January 18, 2019 6 Minutes

Useful models are better than correct models

The more correct something is, the more useful it tends to be. But this correlation is overestimated. Fixating on correctness cripples our personal growth.

Brian Lui Theory 2 Comments March 20, 2018August 1, 2018 5 Minutes

Correct models are bad

We may think that correct mental models are always good to have, but the reality is that some correct models are useless or even harmful.

Brian Lui Theory 6 Comments March 3, 2018January 18, 2019 6 Minutes

Wrong models are good

A common belief is that we should only use correct mental models, but the reality is that some wrong models are worth keeping around.

Brian Lui Theory 3 Comments February 15, 2018December 2, 2021 5 Minutes

Recent Posts

  • The importance trap August 18, 2021
  • Upside decay October 6, 2020
  • Beware of tight feedback loops May 10, 2020
  • Community building in a forgotten game October 29, 2019
  • Harmful Progress June 18, 2019

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