While there are some useful techniques at the end of Inadequate Equilibria which begin to create an “inside/outside view” decision framework, some of this ended up feeling like “surely, anyone reading this book is smarter than the average person, by dint of deciding to read a book about rationality at all, so you should probably apply the inside view more often”. Difficult Problems and Hard Work The distinction is roughly that something is hard work if you have to put a lot of time and effort into it and a difficult problem if you have to put a lot of skill or thinking into it.