Tom Chi is a genius
People must know.
He is the savior of fools like me who have fallen into the reading trap. He is the pope of practicality and direct experience.
Here’s a nice video:
04:38
The second prototyping rule, which is "doing is the best kind of thinking." They teach you to think a lot in school, but I think it is a little bit overrated.
This video introduced me to the man, I love him. He pulls fools like me out of comfort of flipping through pages of a book and takes me to action. He is a man of action.
Listen to this:
Instead of chasing success, the only question to ask is: how to love your medium long enough to create a masterpiece?
From video: 5 Mental Debugs for Success & Global Prosperity by Inventor & Google Genius, Tom Chi
From halfway through starts real golden nuggets popping in.
He hates fools who play guessing games and have arguments over different abstractions in their heads. Instead he advocates minimizing the time to embodied experience, to maximize the rate of learning. I believe that, I believe for most things we can’t just try to figure out in our heads, even if we like to think so. So the best we can do is to get as quickly as we can to direct experience.
The latest nugget this man gave was to stay in your medium, stay as close to your medium as possible. It’s in the second video, check it out, I couldn’t explain it as well.
His lessons aligns with an idea of “environmental agility”. If going to the gym is hard, the best way to tackle that is to try to make it your home. Walk around it, look at it, smell it and get familiar with it, get agile. Or if it’s a software or programming language, just get familiar with it, modify it to your needs, click around and get familiar with it. Stay in your medium the best you can.
This is a fan girl post, yes! Check the guy out he has fantastic ideas for practicality and action
Niko