moridinamael comments on Jocko Podcast - Less Wrong

9 Post author: moridinamael 06 September 2016 03:38PM

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Comment author: moridinamael 07 September 2016 10:10:12PM 0 points [-]

One cool thing about the podcast format is that hearing a person tell a story about their own life that exhibits a principle makes that principle so much clearer than the mere abstract statement of the principle.

Comment author: niceguyanon 09 September 2016 08:57:10PM 0 points [-]

I listened to ep.38 and you were pretty accurate in your descriptions. These podcasts are long but a fun listen if you have the time.

Just an observation, the military tribe definitely takes the cake when it comes to pointing out non-tribe members. They always use the term civilians, in a way that irks me slightly. "In the military we learned X" is different than "see what civilians don't know is that we in the military learned X". I love watching numberphile videos, because they dumb down math and make it interesting for a person like me, but it would get old real quick if all the mathematicians kept referring to us as "non-mathematician" or "civilians".