Solocast: Metagames, Feedback Loops and Transcending The Muggle World
Today's episode is just me and you today, dear listener. We're exploring some of my Readwise highlights, weaving together ideas I've collected from authors like Rory Sutherland, Eliezer Yudkowsky, and Nassim Taleb.
The main ideas that jumped out at me from the books, blogs, and articles I've highlighted are playing the metagame and feedback loops. Both of these are ways to transcend the muggle world and start playing a different game.
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Favorite Quotes:
“In any system where there are norms, there are strengths and weaknesses to those norms. If you follow the norms of the system, the results you get are likely to be the norm. When you play a different game, a metagame, you have the opportunity to outperform.” -fs.blog
“Play the metagame in your domain too, whether you’re head of an organization or just starting out. Blowout the walls of your fish tank and transcend paradigms.” - Eric Jorgenson
“False barriers are accepted because they are the path of least resistance for the ego” -Eric Jorgenson