Created at 250223 # [Anonymous feedback](https://www.admonymous.co/louis030195) # [[Epistemic status]] #shower-thought Last modified date: 250223 Commit: 0 # Related # TODO > [!TODO] TODO # Overoptimization When optimization becomes a [[Iatrogenic|iatrogenic]]. [[Entrepreneur]]s are fundamentally optimizers because [[Entrepreneurship|entrepreneurship]] is about running a marathon very fast, reducing all [[Philosophy/Rationality/Models/Noise|noise]] from your life, instead of a job and working for decades at an average cadence, average [[Environment design|environment]] and [[Types of gains|reward]]. Examples (some from my own experience): - Wearing the same clothes every day, boring colors -> lack of randomness -> turn into a [[Nihilism|nihilistic]] machine - Eating only the most nutrient dense food, regardless of the [[Aesthetic, taste, price and nutritiousness|taste and aesthethic]], causing social friction - Disabling all notifications and similar [[Philosophy/Rationality/Models/Noise|noise]], to the point of becoming blind to [[Signal]]s - Heavy cognitive load to gain a small amount of time which will be a burden on the [[Mind|mind]] during the day