9. Thinking levels
0: I know nothing
1: What do I have?
2: What does my opponent have?
3: What does my opponent think I have?
4: What does my opponent think that I think they have?
5: What does my opponent think that I think they think I have?
=> To beat a player, play exactly 1 level above him/her
10. Thinking levels
0: I know nothing => learn the poker rules
1: What do I have? => Which starting hand might be profitable
2: What does my opponent have? => Which hand might be
profitable assuming the range of my opponent and poker odds,
postflop play
3: What does my opponent think I have? => Which hand might be
profitable assuming the range of my opponent and the range my
opponent assumes I have, odds and postflop play
11. Leveling up
Learn new thing => Practice, practice, practice => Intuition =>
Learn new thing => Practice, practice, practice => Intuition =>
Learn new thing => Practice, practice, practice => Intuition =>
Learn new thing => Practice, practice, practice => Intuition =>
Learn new thing => Practice, practice, practice => Intuition =>
Learn new thing => Practice, practice, practice => Intuition =>
Learn new thing => Practice, practice, practice => Intuition =>
Learn new thing => Practice, practice, practice => Intuition =>
Learn new thing => Practice, practice, practice => Intuition =>
Learn new thing => Practice, practice, practice => Intuition =>
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12. Poker professionals play roughly
100K
hands/month
(5K/day or 1K/hour or 17/minute)
Practice, practice, practice
14. Leveling up
Learn new thing => Practice, practice, practice => Intuition =>
Learn new thing => Practice, practice, practice => Intuition =>
Learn new thing => Practice, practice, practice => Intuition =>
Learn new thing => Practice, practice, practice => Intuition =>
Learn new thing => Practice, practice, practice => Intuition =>
Learn new thing => Practice, practice, practice => Intuition =>
Learn new thing => Practice, practice, practice => Intuition =>
Learn new thing => Practice, practice, practice => Intuition =>
Learn new thing => Practice, practice, practice => Intuition =>
Learn new thing => Practice, practice, practice => Intuition =>
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40. In today's knowledge economy,
it is not the tech stack that will
give a competitive advantage.
Anyone can google, download
and install a tool.
41. Competitive advantage from
software development should
come from exploring the core
domain, not from infrastructure.
Small baby steps providing real
business value is the way to go!
42. Focus on process,
not on infrastructure.
Reduce friction using automation,
optimize for happiness *
* http://tom.preston-werner.com/2010/10/18/optimize-for-happiness.html
49. I am a great believer that any tool that
enhances communication has profound effects
in terms of how people can learn from each
other, and how they can achieve the kind of
freedoms that they are interested in.
Bill Gates