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40. If your personality is prone to addictions, redirect the addiction. I was addicted to videogames as a teenager. College was a wake up call. One day I just said, That's it, I don't play videogames anymore. Fascinating fast forward, it worked. And it worked because I realized what I was addicted to wasn't videogames themselves. It was the mental stimulation they provided. A good videogame fully absorbs you. You have to do dozens of calculations every single second and there's a great feedback loop embedded into the system. Once recognized, I was able to change the object of my 'addiction''. My logic was simple, if this is what my mind wants, let's find a healthier and more productive way to supply it. That's how I stumbled into reading. I despised reading in school; thought it was boring. But a few books in college helped me better understand why they were so powerful. I got a glimpse of how much a book can stimulate the mind and, wanting to redirect my attention, I started reading. Reading worked in much smaller doses than videogames did. When that's the case, a bit of discipline is required. I knew I wouldn't find a perfect substitute, so I settled for something that was good enough. You have to be honest with yourself upfront. You can fool yourself in many ways, but not in this one. You can't tell yourself something will be an absolute joy, because then you have to go do the thing. And the moment you realize it's not as fun as your earlier self promised, you'll drop it. Somewhere in this process I started thinking about addictions as obsessions instead. This was a very useful reframe. To some extent, there's some truth in the idea of your inner speech. What you tell yourself defines how you see things. If you think you're addicted, that's that. If you think you're obsessed, you know it's temporary and you can redirect it toward something else. A subtle change in wording works wonders psychologically. I'm not sure personality traits such as this can be changed, so you might as well use them to your advantage. Over 5-6 years, I read 200-250 books, letters, essays, watched many interviews and listened to podcasts. My new obsession became knowledge acquisition. Left at that, it means nothing, but it's way better than the alternative and has had some positive side effects: - Started writing (thousands of pages in 3-4 years) - Improved thinking - Understood a couple of things, which is fun - Led to an obsession over investing - More interesting conversations and higher quality people - Landed jobs out of writing and thinking, essentially - Failed a couple of times at entrepreneurship If you think you can't do something, you're right. If you think you can, you're also right.

There are a LOT of companies out there right now trying to build AI-native game engines where users can turn words into games. The video below shows exactly what they're trying to achieve. It turns out "words -> game" is much harder than it looks... How do you make vehicles and other machines operate correctly in a sandbox where anything can happen? How do you support tool-based items when everything you grab requires different poses and mechanics? How do you make sure that everything created works coherently with everything else and doesn't break? How can multiple people be in one game at once and see the same chaos happening at the same time all in sync? What about physics? How do we make it run well on every device, even phones? It turns out generation was never the real problem, coherence was.

Saber vender, en estos tiempos donde casi todo puede hacerse (y hacerse rápido), es FUNDAMENTAL. Y vender no es presentar tu solución. Ni (únicamente) ver el pain. Son muchísimas cosas...