Diff of Helpful Life Advice at cfe07e2

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 *. You can just do things. You do not need, and do not need to wait for: approval from your peer group; nonessential-but-nice-to-have prerequisites; next year; circumstances to be perfect; research to imply the thing is good; approval from your tribe in general.
-*. Clean general solutions are nice, but expedient ugly ones are what drives progress.
+*. Clean general solutions are nice, but expedient ugly ones are what drives progress. Brute-force approaches like enumerating every possible answer or combination of things are underappreciated.
 *. People are frequently biased against boring but practical things (e.g. actually reading anything), or simple but annoying/difficult things. There is thus alpha in doing them. See also [[https://www.betonit.ai/p/do-ten-times-as-much]].