Ablation experiments are crucial for your own development. …
Ablation experiments are crucial for your own development.
Ablation experiments are where you subtract one element from your model of reality as a way of understanding the contributions of each component.
Understanding causality in your model of reality is the most straightforward way to generate reliable knowledge, and ablation is a very low-effort way to look into causality.
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The idea comes from state-of-the-art machine learning. You can make an ablation experiment yourself by removing one element of your life for a defined period of time.
For example: stop watching TV for a week, or stop using social media for two weeks.
Then assess if that component was really valuable to you & you should add it back, or it was actually draining energy & focus from you and you are better off without it.
I do things like this all the time. Thanks for putting a name to my craziness and posting about it.