No because you don't understand what Andreessen means by reflection / introspection.

He obviously thinks you should learn from your mistakes and that you must be an avid and quick learner.

But learning skills is not what introspection / dwelling is.

It's spending times on thoughts like "what should I be doing with my life". "I can't believe how much of a victim of the system I am".

And he specifically contrasted it against doing stuff.

Writing code >>> walks in the woods.

Obviously reflection is necessary to recognize mistakes of the past. What Andreessen was talking about that you should spent majority of your time acting not reflecting. Not that you should spent 0 time reflecting.

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triceratops 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> It's spending times on thoughts like "what should I be doing with my life".

How else do you decide what to do?

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jjk166 7 hours ago | parent [-]

There are those who would argue doing anything is better than doing nothing while you try to figure out what to do. I'm in a position where I know what my passions are and am sufficiently constrained by resources that I can't afford major mistakes; but if I were sufficiently wealthy and indifferent, throwing darts at a board with a couple of ideas on it and just doing whatever has a certain romance to it.

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triceratops 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Don't do nothing while figuring out what to do. But you should still spend time thinking about what to do.

If you're wealthy time and personal energy are the most valuable, irreplaceable resources you now possess. Why squander them on fruitless, random pursuits if you could think strategically and do something that really matters?

	▲	jjk166 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
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philipwhiuk 17 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> introspection / dwelling

It's surprising to me that you consider these equivalent.

Introspection is a process of discovery, to uncover a deeper cause why you did something.

Dwelling is when you can't let go.

Introspection is important. Dwelling is problematic.

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lovich 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Did we not understand when he said introspection was something made up in the past few hundred years? I was aghast when he said it right in front of my copy of Meditations given how much these guys also obsess over the Roman Empire

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manicennui 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Not trying to defend these assholes, but the author of Meditations was not exactly a good guy.

	▲	lovich 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I was commenting more on the fact that it’s a work that is all about introspection and is from like 2000 years ago