How to Walk Through Walls | Henrik Karlsson
Appreciation
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Importance
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Date Added
6.3.26
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We move through a world of abstractions. The walls and rules that govern our lives are conventions, not facts. Speedrunners complete video games in minutes because they stop seeing villages and walls and instead the underlying code, memory, and exploitable mechanics. Most systems work this way: a job market, a film industry, a bureaucracy each pretend to be made of fixed rules but underneath they're just people and machinery you can learn to manipulate. Get your hands dirty in the actual mechanics of something for long enough and you start to see through it, and then you can make moves that look impossible to everyone still playing by the surface rules.
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Also, it is only the first time that it might take years. After you’ve developed a hacker mindset in one area of your life, it is much easier to see the rest of reality in the same way.
Having seen through the superficiality and clumsiness of the normal way of doing things, you are less likely to trust conventional wisdom going forward and more likely to trust your eyes. You know that there are deeper layers to reality and have a sense for how to access them.
And then all of reality becomes something you can horse around with.