THINGS I BELIEVE
(and might be wrong about)
Intelligence is leverage.
The returns on getting smarter compound across every domain at once. Most advantages are downstream of this one.
Most productivity advice optimizes the wrong variable.
Throughput of tasks is rarely the bottleneck. Taste in which problems to work on dominates everything else.
Physical fitness is cognitive infrastructure.
Training is not health maintenance. It is the substrate thinking runs on.
Previously (2026-03): Used to think fitness was mostly about health.