1. ~understanding how to interpret things that
other people are saying in situations where their goals do not fully align with
yours. A common rookie error that inexperienced leaders make is always agreeing
with the last person they talked to; this takes a while to get past, though it
becomes easy once you get exposed to enough people who contradict each other. A
good general strategy is reasoning counterfactually: if someone tells you that
X is true, ask yourself—( i) what would they say if X really is true, and (ii)
what would they say if X is false? If the answer to (i) and (ii) is “they will
say roughly what they just said now,” then their words provided you with
exactly zero information. In general, know when it’s really important not to
take people’s words at 100 percent face value. P 54
2. ~be interdisciplinary. In my case, I follow
quite a bit of research in computer science, cryptography, mechanism design,
economics, politics, and other social sciences, and the interactions between
these fields tend to very often inform strategic and protocol decisions. P 155
3. ~it’s always helpful to switch one’s focus to
something else at least for some time, perhaps by going on a walk. If it is
because of a technical problem (i.e., how do we get task X done?) then the best
way to get around an impasse is to put yourself in many different situations
and environments to try to get some new inspiration.
The more difficult kind to
deal with is social situations. In this case, it’s important to avoid falling
into the trap of seeing things from the perspective of the last person you
talked to, or even in general the people you spend more time with; you need to
try to find ways to neutrally evaluate the situation, and perhaps talk to
others who are outside of the circle that’s currently in conflict. P 155
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitalik_Buterin
https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
VITALIK BUTERIN is the creator of Ethereum. He
first discovered blockchain and cryptocurrency technologies through Bitcoin in
2011, and was immediately excited by the technology and its potential. He
co-founded Bitcoin magazine in September 2011, and after two and a half years
looking at what the existing blockchain technology and applications had to
offer, wrote the Ethereum white paper in November 2013. He now leads Ethereum’s
research team, working on future versions of the Ethereum protocol. In 2014,
Vitalik was a recipient of the two-year Thiel Fellowship, tech billionaire
Peter Thiel’s project that awards $ 100,000 to 20 promising innovators under 20
so they can pursue their inventions in lieu of a post-secondary institution.
Reference
Ferriss, Timothy. Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World (P. 153). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Kindle Edition.
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