These are all false dichotomies; there is a fine balance for each of these that is heavily context dependent.
- Is progress desirable?
- Being in motion vs. being in action
- Convergent thinking vs. Divergent Thinking Two Types of Thinking
- Massive Input vs Spaced Repetition
- Planning/Having Clear Goals vs Letting Serendipity Happen
- Consumption vs Thinking
- Massive Input vs Spaced Repetition
- Storytelling vs. Knowledge Transfer
- From Superforecasting: How to make good predictions
- Being underconfident vs overconfident
- Under-updating vs over-updating (Against Learning from Dramatic Events)
- Inside vs Outside