Vaniver comments on Boring Advice Repository - Less Wrong

56 Post author: Qiaochu_Yuan 07 March 2013 04:33AM

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Comment author: Vaniver 07 March 2013 11:30:32PM *  27 points [-]

Stop doing stupid shit seems relevant.

To summarize: if you're good at something and it doesn't seem like it's taken serious effort to get to where you are, there's probably some low-hanging fruit that you haven't picked, because you haven't looked for it. Put a serious effect into improving and fixing your small, frequent mistakes.

Comment author: Viliam_Bur 08 March 2013 09:52:58AM 17 points [-]

It's a meta-boring advice: Instead of looking for new cool things you could learn, do the boring work of fixing the mistakes you make.

Comment author: [deleted] 28 September 2013 03:08:25PM 2 points [-]

Link doesn't work.

Comment author: Vaniver 28 September 2013 05:05:08PM 3 points [-]

Updated to the web archive link; hat tip to KnaveOfAllTrades.

Comment author: therufs 11 March 2013 11:42:23PM 2 points [-]

For ramblier inspiration, see also Stuck In The Middle With Bruce.