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SA for your own life sounds intriguing. Do you have a concrete example that elucidates how this could be implemented? The concept still seems a little slippery to me.


Dating: give everything a quick try: Tinder, speeddating, okcupid, socializing (dancing classes). Then see what works best, and put your effort into that one.

Marketing: try everything before you start focussing on the best (I think the book Traction describes it like this).

When I was looking to make my own logo and pinned it down to hiring on fiverr, I let a few different artists do a quick, cheap sketch. Then I hired the best to do the full thing.

I think it comes down to: first, get a quick & cheap taste of everything ("go all over the place"), then slightly start focussing on the things that work for you.


Dating: it's better to try many partners to know what you like / don't like before commiting.

Imo it's a better way to keep people together than religion.


This is also known as “gradually shift from exploration to exploitation”




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