2026-05-25
Things that help personal performance.
| Thing | Notes |
|---|---|
| Lie on a hard floor | 5-30m, Good for physical health and mental performance, helps thinking through problems |
| Stress is fatal | “Does this actually matter?”, “Am I volunteering for extra stress?” acute stressors are fine, chronic are not - most of your time should be stress free |
| Stretching | Useful for nervous system and spine/brain health |
| Eat Light | Eat till 80% full, lots of fruit and veg |
| Exercise | Mostly cardio, some strength training |
| If you can be outside, be outside | anything you’re doing that can reasonably be done outside should be, you’d be shocked how often you can work outside on your laptop |
| Be slightly cold | It’s better to be slightly cold when working |
| You get 4 hours | You get about 4 hours of good work per day, anything past that usually isn’t worth it, act accordingly |
| Be prosocial | prosocial is the opposite of antisocial, you’re not an introvert you just have atrophied social skills |
- Learning maths and basic physics improves basically everything and is incredibly functional
- Learning statistics is very useful
- Game theory basically always applies