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You don’t need motivation. You need a higher pain tolerance.
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Changing Israeli policy toward Palestinians requires imposing costs on mainstream, not just settler, Israelis.Their words
We need to do something that inflicts pain on nicer, more sympathetic Israelis in Tel Aviv and Haifa, something that makes them want to actually change course and meaningfully alter the situation.
Sanctions on West Bank settlements aren’t enoughslowboring.com
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Rather than treat AI as similar to airplanes, we should treat it as something between airplanes and humans. We don’t know exactly where on this spectrum they will land, but we can no longer be certain that AI will lack any given humanlike motivation.
31 August
From one piece How to Accelerate Learning & Improve Education | Joe Liemandt 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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these kids have a block that they can't do it. You do whatever you can including paying them to break through the block. they then see themselves as a different person
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And that's why we say motivation is 90% of the problem or the solution because you have to be able to motivate the person to engage with these personalized lessons to learn it.
24 August
From one piece How to Improve Motivation & Overcome Procrastination | Dr. Masud Husain 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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there are some people who have pure apathy, no depression like David. And there are other people who can be depressed, they can be sad, they can be hopeless about the future, but they don't necessarily lose motivation. They can have pure depression.
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So it's a different way of framing why is there a reduction of action? Why is there bradicynesia, a slowing of movement in people with Parkinson's disease? That's really interesting. It doesn't just have to be about motor control. It could be the motivation to act just as we said with David, right?
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Dopamine in the human brain isn't all about motivation to action. There's dopamine in other parts of the brain. We know from some really classical work by Patricia Goldman Rakit, for example, that dopamine is important for working memory, short-term memory.
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You have to persevere. And that's the other really important part of motivation. You know, we know a lot of people who start things and then we also know the non-competers, the people who are always so energetic but actually don't finish, right? So, it's almost as important to be able to finish and complete as initiate actions.
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it was only about 15 years ago I started beginning to be aware that there may be a an important biology underlying motivation and when that biology goes wrong, it can lead to loss of motivation and even pathological apathy.
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This was a great motivation when I started running, but it’s a very niche book.
10 August
From one piece Using AI to Increase Your Intelligence & Enrich Humanity | Dr. Fei-Fei Li 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Learning takes time, effort and sometimes pain, and no tool changes that, because that is how the brain is built.Their words
Learning fundamentally respecting the hardware you're talking about takes time, takes effort, sometimes takes some pain. That is just how our brain is.
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The other kind of danger is in the name of agency and and uh and motivation the tools are denied to our students because we're worried you cheat or worry you only got your answer from Chad GBT. That is very bad as well
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The worst outcome of AI for young people is that it takes away their agency and their motivation to learn.Their words
The absolute bad outcome is that our young generation, their agency and human level motivation of learning and living is taken away by tools. So doom scrolling, passive watching of shorts, all this are not helping agency, human agency.
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China's tolerance of deflation has caused widespread underemployment and unemployment among its youth.Their words
Policy decisions have condemned a generation of Chinese youth to widespread under- and un-employment.
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In the current social media zeitgeist, pain is regularly rewarded over joy.
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And so having anything that's able to give you that green check mark that says even if this is going to be complicated to understand, even if it's going to be a pain, you at the very least know it is correct. Like every other field would kill for that, right?
7 June
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And so, I always kind of start with okay, where's our current pain and are there new technologies to solve that pain?
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Typing on a standard, non-split keyboard for extended periods causes hand and wrist pain.Their words
Using a keyboard in this position for a long time causes pain
27 May
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Pain and pleasure act as motivational backstops that keep reinforcement-learning agents inner-aligned.Their words
valences like pain and pleasure have a natural account as motivational backstops for inner-aligning RL agents capable of mesa-optimization
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From one piece Designing Data-intensive Applications with Martin Kleppmann 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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And so, the goal of this chapter is really just to give people the information in order to make an educated decision. But I don't want to make that decision for people. That's for businesses themselves to decide.
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Replication earns its place even in a small system, because what it buys is fault tolerance rather than scale.Their words
And uh replication is still relevant even at smaller scales because that's for fault tolerance, that's not for scalability.
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for me, reliability means fault tolerance primarily. So, meaning that a system should, on the whole, continue working even if like a network link is interrupted or a node crashes or something like that.
25 March
From one piece Thoughts on slowing the fuck down 2 beliefs · mariozechner.at
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And organizations have super high pain tolerance. But human-made enterprise codebases take years to get there. The organization slowly evolves along with the complexity in a demented kind of synergy and learns how to deal with it. With agents and a team of 2 humans, you can get to that complexity within weeks.
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With an orchestrated army of agents, there is no bottleneck, no human pain. These tiny little harmless booboos suddenly compound at a rate that's unsustainable. You have removed yourself from the loop, so you don't even know that all the innocent booboos have formed a monster of a codebase. You only feel the pain when it's too late.
11 March
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My my feeling is that probably people have a low tolerance for non-determinism. And these things are fundamentally non-deterministic. So, they can't just go replace customer call center software because they they could be wrong.
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But, your 'calling' will never involve constant discomfort. If you are passionate about a political issue but you hate crowds, you do not have to go to protests.
24 February
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The tariffs survived the case for them because their real purpose was the personal power they conferred.Their words
It has been clear from the beginning that a primary motivation for tariffs was that they empowered Trump personally.
10 February
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The "homework problem" described above might be much worse in practice for end users who aren't motivated to invest in their email triage systems, even if it will save them time in the medium term.
1 January
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The brain cannot process more than one source of pain at a time, so a stronger pain masks a weaker one.Their words
It turns out the brain can't handle more than one pain input at a time - the broken ribs put the nerve pain on the back burner.
5 December 2025
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Living according to a genuine purpose brings sacrifice, stress and pain rather than constant enjoyment.Their words
Because when you believe in something, when you become obsessed with something, you sacrifice yourself to it. And that sacrifice actually feels like pain and stress and doubt. Not fun.
5 October 2025
From one piece Finding hidden growth opportunities in your product | Albert Cheng (Duolingo, Grammarly, Chess.com) 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I actually in many ways see language learning as like their first vehicle. And what they have a superpower in is that again, the motivation, the habits, etc.
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Then you need a metag game, which for Duolingo is kind of like the path, but it's also the leaderboard, achievements, kind of long-term things that you're going to strive to such that you have like long-term, I guess, motivation uh to continue doing the thing. And then the profile is also critical because you build up a profile over time. It's a reflection of your investment inside the product experience. And so when you nail those three things, you can end up with a long-term learning journey that can be quite successful.
30 September 2025
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Yeah, I think overabundance paralyzes motivation and willpower. It's extremely harmful, particularly for young boys, to grow up in an environment where they can be proud, not of their own achievements, but of their father's achievements or their father's wealth.
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Action comes before motivation: you do first and feel afterwards, not the other way round.Their words
If you’re stuck in a depressive cycle, even when you really, really, really, really don’t want to do anything, to do something. Try to make progress because the good feeling comes on the end of that. The whole point is to do first and then feel, not feel and then do.
11 June 2025
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The high value human tasks, like understanding the client's true pain points and deciding on priorities and trade-offs, would be easier with a smaller, proactive team.
30 April 2025
From one piece Tim Sweeney: Fortnite, Unreal Engine, and the Future of Gaming | Lex Fridman Podcast #467 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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And by doing this, removing this from being a programming problem for the programmer to deal with, to being a language problem for us language designers to deal with. And we're moving a vast amount of pain that would be imposed on a million people, instead to a vast amount of pain imposed on a small number of people to have to actually make this work.
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A lot of what they're facing isn't the challenge of learning a new art. It's friction introduced by failures of programming language design.
23 March 2025
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And that's the problem with rewards is they just massively undermine intrinsic motivation. And that's why gamification doesn't work. And when gamification does work, it's because the underlying experience was already designed like a game.
3 February 2025
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until there are feedback loops of open source AI, it seems like mostly an ideological mission. People like Mark Zuckerberg, which is like America needs this and I agree with him, but in the time where the motivation ideologically is high, we need to capitalize and build this ecosystem around, what benefits do you get from seeing the language model data?
21 May 2024
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Rapidly growing organizations need a developer environment that works well out of the box for new engineersTheir words
In a rapidly growing organization, it's much more important to have a developer environment that "just works" out of the gate, with minimal setup pain for new engineers.
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The more addicts rely on these stimuli, the less pleasure they receive. At a certain point, this cycle creates anhedonia—the complete absence of enjoyment in an experience supposedly pursued for pleasure.
6 February 2024
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The right moment to migrate from an ad hoc data store to SQL is the moment you first need an index.Their words
I suspect, considering the process retrospect, a great deal of that pain can be avoided by committing to migrating directly to an SQL system the moment you need an index.
23 December 2023
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Regulatory and social tolerance for drug risk falls over time, and the ratchet is almost never loosened.Their words
it seems to be broadly true that regulatory and societal tolerance for risk declines with time
20 November 2023
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9 March 2023
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I Don't Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male DepressionTheir words
In it, Terry reveals how men can unearth their pain, heal themselves, restore relationships, and break the legacy of abuse.
14 June 2022
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