Ockham's Razors, and Other Idioms

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is like Occam's razor, which is the most common
razor that I've heard of. This is like the you know,
I don't know, as I don't know what the difference
between a razor and an axiom or a rule or
a law or whatever is OCAM's razor being. When you're
weighing alternative explanations for something, the one with the fewest

(00:20):
assumptions should be chosen. In other words, the simplest explanation
is usually the correct one for anything, which is a
good one to go with. But somebody was posting a
whole bunch of these yesterday that I had never heard of,
and they're pretty good. I thought, I'm gonna I'm gonna
tell my kids some of these. Uh, the invested versus
spent razor. Time is either invested or spent. Invested time

(00:47):
are actions that compound, like reading, physical activity, mindfulness, and
relationship building. Spent time, as opposed to invest in time
are actions that don't pretty easy to come up with.
All kinds of spent time that you can think of
that don't really add up to anything. When choosing what
to do, prioritize investing time, not spending it. Yeah, we

(01:07):
gotta all do better on that. I suppose the rooms
from a dynamo of productive activity. Oh yeah, yeah. I
take three minutes to have fun between seven or five
and seven a eight in the evening, and boy do
I have a good time. Then it's back to work.
So you just heard about the golf tournament over the weekend.
You didn't, You didn't watch any of it. Just oh,

(01:28):
I watched a three minute quadruple speed encapsulation. So quadruple speed.
It was obviously like forty five seconds. You you were you,
you heard somebody talking about it while you were hand
hewing a grand piano and taking Spanish lessons. Exactly exactly
this finishes, boy, now, I said to my instructor, as

(01:50):
I painstakingly sanded it and studying for your l S
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