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NancyLebovitz comments on Rationalist Hobbies - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 18 February 2011 05:56:45AM 4 points [-]

The knowledge of when to get a new hobby when you've squeezed the juice out of your current hobby might be the master skill, though I supposed it can't count as a hobby in itself.

Comment author: David_Gerard 18 February 2011 12:28:06PM 0 points [-]

Remembering that almost all growth follows a sigmoid can be helpful.

Comment author: FiftyTwo 02 August 2011 12:16:35AM 0 points [-]

Once I understood the reference I realised that was very clever. So when is the optimum point to dettach?