Thomas Dullien on the Three Insights That Shaped His Thinking
Three important steps in my maturation process
In a reflective post, Thomas Dullien (also known as Halvar Flake) shares three pivotal realizations that have shaped his worldview. He discusses the importance of understanding your own incentives and not believing everything you think, the illusion of monocausal determinism in a probabilistic world, and the cultural construct of the reason-emotion dichotomy. Drawing from personal experiences and observations, he offers a mature perspective on navigating complexity and making better decisions.
Anxiety about the impact of your work is self-flattering, and you have to recognize it as such, and keep it in check - it’s sugar for your ego, but history will largely route around you.