I spend so much time rushing past moments, trying almost frantically to get through them by applying rules of thumb and not wasting attention. Of course if you do that too little you get stuck in the mud. But too much of it is a form of self-defeating panic. In survival mode you have to rush, eat things you normally wouldn't, put aside any non critical detail. But those details pile up when you stay in that mode for year after year. So my goal is to learn to apply my full attention to the details, and to work hard on picking the right ones.

Factorio teaches this. You work on some tiny little thing, like getting a belt to balance properly, and move on to the next. By iterating that you can raise up this great machine, like pointillist art. Mark Andreessen claims that is Elon's secret sauce. I'm not so much hoping to accelerate inter planetary diaspora as I am to figure out how to keep my shoes from coming untied. I'm considering making one small step for man and ordering those elastic shoe laces, and solve a problem that I've been faffing around on since about age four. And then repeating that.