Ask HN: How did you all figure it out? Since your so smart

We are not all actually “so smart.” Though some of us operate with varying cognitive advantages.

Here’s what worked for me…

In a Universe governed by entropy, ignorance and confusion is the natural state of mind.

Success is a function of persistence, perseverance, tenacity, endurance, application, willfulness, doing it. Do not forget that.

Everyone is a pathological lier, stop listening to whoever the hell that is.

Simple truths, no matter how boring or unpopular are better in the long run than made-to-believe, whatever it pays.

Oh, and do things the hard way, it is the only way you will truly own it. If you haven’t noticed, everything else is over leveraged.

I used dogs. I used probes. I used cardioplate crossoffs. I used teepers. I used bribery. I used stiktytes. I used intimidation. I used torment. I used torture. I used finks. I used cops. I used search&seizure. I used fallaron. I used betterment incentive. I used fingerprints. I used Bertillon. I used cunning. I used guile. I used treachery. I used Raoul Mitgong, but he didn't help. much. I used applied physics. I used techniques of criminology.

(with apologies to Harlan Ellison)

It’s you’re not your. :) but seriously be specific in what you want figured out.

You gotta know the odds and the Pareto principle may help.

Trial and error.