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I turn 33 today. I can only hope that age brings wisdom.

We\\u2019ve been talking recently about the high-level frames and heuristics that organize other concepts. They\\u2019re hard to transmit, and you have to rediscover them on your own, sometimes with the help of\\xa0lots of different explanations and viewpoints\\xa0(or one very good one). They\\u2019re\\xa0not obviously apparent when you\\u2019re missing them; if you\\u2019re not ready for them, they just sounds like platitudes and boring things you\\u2019ve already internalized.

Wisdom seems like the accumulation of those, or changes in higher-level heuristics you get once you\\u2019ve had enough of those. I look back on myself now vs. ten years ago and notice I\\u2019ve become more cynical, more mellow, and more prone to believing things are complicated. For example: