Take my attempt here with a grain of salt. Many book length treatments have argued different sides of this. I only hope that this can serve as a starting point for your own experiential investigation
People doing trauma work in themselves or others often talk about digesting shadow sides to things. I think I have a better understanding of what this means than I did before. I'll explain by way of r
e book cover on my bookshelf caught my eye. It was the original edition of Getting Things Done, the classic book on personal productivity by David Allen. I had read it a couple months before, and even ran a book club with my colleagues to discu
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June 2021 It might not seem there's much to learn about how to work hard.Anyone who's been to school knows what it entails, even if theychose not to do it. There are 12 year olds who work amazingly ha
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Estimated reading time: 6 minutes Learning productivity is a journey. We have a good map of the territory, in the form of the Digital Productivity Pyramid . Often, when we embark on this journey – lea
EDIT: Update To JANKI Method For many years after I wrote this post I have continued to use flashcards to learn and have made a number of refinements to my recommendations. I summarised these points i
Estimated reading time: 14 minutes Last month I published The P.A.R.A. Method: A Universal System for Organizing Digital Information . It describes a simple, lightweight, yet extremely flexible system
Estimated reading time: 12 minutes Series Navigation: The P.A.R.A. Method PARA Part 2: Operations Manual >> This article is also available in Dutch Imagine for a moment the perfect organizational syst
Transcript of a talk given at the Oxford Karl Popper Society on 16th May, 2021 Sarah Fitz-Claridge, 2021 [I recommend watching the actual talk instead of reading this transcript. [youtube] – SFC] Taki
Around anything cool you want to pursue, you will find a Moat of Low Status. Each moat is different, but they are never pleasant to be in. They’re always scummy, cold, and terrifying. The Moats that s
Spaced repetition is a centuries-old psychological technique for efficient memorization & practice of skills where instead of attempting to memorize by ‘cramming’,memorization can be done far more eff
Updated Jul 2021 What do you worry about more: Getting exercise, eating vegetables, or the air you breathe? While most things that clearly improve health are well known, one is insanely underrated: Fi
It's been almost exactly three months since my last research update and I have been a very busy lady--although my focus has been on business and work rather than primary occult research as much as I w
i into his presence, and after ascertaining that Sāti will not abandon his view even when reprimanded by the Buddha himself, he abandons Sāti as too recalcitrant to teach, and turns to cross-question the monks as to the relevant right view of how consciousness functions in the process leading to…
Theory of Change I am increasingly convinced that the difference between effective and ineffective people is their skill at developing a theory of change. Theory of change is a funny phrase — I first
Before I get into it, I must say that I don’t recommend that you do this. I’m sharing this strategy for information purposes only, so that you can understand the playing field you’re working with, and
18 Apr 2021 One thing most people don’t realize about starting a small business, particularly in the context of something with low overhead and low fixed costs, like software or media: not-enough reve
Planning to publish this on guzey.com 12 if this continues to work for a couple more months (such productivity revelations almost always stop working in
Maybe you think you don't need a step-by-step guide to writing a great business plan . Maybe you think you don't need a template for writing a business plan. After all, some entrepreneurs succeed with
Nassim Taleb is one of my favorite authors right now. I’ve read Antifragile, Black Swan, Fooled by Randomness, and Bed of Procrustes twice each, and regularly use Bed of Procrustes for writing inspira
With well over 50 billion dollars to his name, Warren Buffett is consistently ranked among the wealthiest people in the world. Out of all the investors in the 20th century, Buffett was the most succes
A lot of the enjoyment from performing an activity comes from developing some level of competence or mastery with that activity. This creates a positive feedback loop where you perform well, feel good
As we start 2016, I’m thinking about a question that I’ve been asking myself the last few years, and that I’ve encouraged anyone who will listen to ask themselves too: What kind of life do you want? I
Next time you say something like: “I want to learn to play piano” “I want to write a book” “I want to get more muscular” Ask yourself an important question: Do you really want to do that? Or do you wa
In 2018, I was a bright-eyed grad student who was freaking out about AI alignment. I guess I'm still a bright-eyed grad student freaking out about AI alignment, but that's beside the point. I wanted t
Dancing With The Gods Back to Eric's Home Page Up to Site Map 10 Jul 1995 An autobiographical account of my `religious' beliefs and how they gotthat way. If you start this, please read it through. Sto
Natali Morad Nov 20, 2017 · 9 min read Credit: Unsplash In Part 1 I introduced a new way of viewing adulthood, based on Dr. Kegan’s Theory of Adult Development. According to Kegan, becoming an adult i
Top highlight Natali Morad Sep 28, 2017 · 9 min read Credit: Unsplash Ever wondered what it means to be an adult? I’m not talking about buying guest towels or renters insurance. I’m talking about how
Sundar sent the following email to Google employees earlier today. Hi Googlers, We’ve spent the last year focused on supporting employees during the pandemic. I hope the extra benefits such as Carer’s
So far, three cryptocurrencies—Bitcoin, Ripple, and Ethereum—have hit a market cap of $100B. Notably, they all did so within three months of each other. These cryptocurrencies first hit market caps of
To reject gods and spirits is easy: just bully them away in the name of science. But to accept them, or at least our experiences of them, and yet give them a scientific explanation: there's a task wor
Preamble: Hello everyone! This post has been getting shared a little bit, so I thought it might be worth taking some time to put together a bit of context? This blogpost is basically a “cleaned-up” or
These are excerpts (emphasis mine) from William James’s 1890 classic, Principles of Psychology , Chapter IV, “Habit”: The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally in
Last Tuesday, between my late dinner and early bedtime, I was able to catch up with The Man, best known for being the head of The Establishment, and the developed world’s biggest employer. Millions of
Growing up Jewish, I thought that the traditional rules around the Sabbath were silly. Then I forgot to bring a spare battery on a camping trip. Now I think that something like the traditional Jewish
Epistemic Status: Reference post. Strong beliefs strongly held after much thought, but hard to explain well. Intentionally abstract. Disambiguation: This does not refer to any physical good, app or pi
Well I’m in the working world again. I’ve found myself a well-paying gig in the engineering industry, and life finally feels like it’s returning to normal after my nine months of traveling. Because I