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When I was a teenager I often used fantasy as a vehicle for escapism. Some people, when they fantasise, think about sex or dragons or wildly unlikely events like winning the lottery. I fantasised abou
from the book “ Hell Yeah or No ”: There’s no speed limit 2009-12-01 Whether you’re a student, a teacher, or a parent, I think you’ll appreciate this story of how one teacher can completely and perman
I start each of my weekly reviews by re-reading one of my favorite essays of life advice—a different one each week. It’s useful for a few different reasons: It helps me get into the right reflective f
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When I was working in marketing, I had a habit that surprised my peers: I didn’t read any marketing blogs. I had no feed set up to track the new articles being put out by my peers. Instead, I went out
These past couple weeks represent the biggest shift in my understanding of personal finance in many years, maybe even decades. Things that never made much sense to me (and which I dismissed as foolish
There is nothing fundamentally wrong with you. You are just fine—just as you are. That is tantra’s main claim about the self. “Ego” is not evil. It is not a spiritual problem. No upgrade required You
Apple's current mission statement comes off as a bit myopic, doesn't it—especially in relation to Jobs' original mission statement. Jobs was tortured in his quest to create great products. Clearly, that type of passion is only present when someone is working for a greater purpose. The most…
Ideas not mattering is a psyop created: 2021-02-22 ; modified: 2021-02-22 Table of Contents Introduction Conventional startup and business wisdom has become “there are plenty of good ideas, all that m
Most people know Alexander Technique as something about posture, or something to remove muscle tension or aches. It can have those effects, but that’s not what I’ll be discussing here. This article ex
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Credit... Illustrations by Jon Reinfurt Slate Star Codex was a window into the psyche of many tech leaders building our collective future. Then it disappeared. Credit... Illustrations by Jon Reinfurt
This is long, but it's the shortest length I could cut from the material and have a complete thought. 1. Alien Space Bats have abducted you. In the spirit of this posting , I shall describe a magical
This is part 18 of 30 of Hammertime. Click here for the intro. Up until today, Hammertime focused on improving one’s ability to achieve one’s goals. The next two techniques, Goal Factoring and Interna
Tl;Dr version: Pavlovian conditioning can cause humans to unconsciously flinch from even thinking about a serious personal problem they have, we call it an "Ugh Field" 1 . The Ugh Field forms a self-s
More than 10 years ago, researchers suggested that money can buy happiness, and that it costs about $75,000 a year. A complicated and nuanced study by Nobel Prize winning economists explained that mon
The days are getting shorter in the northern hemisphere, and with the ongoing pandemic, most of us expect to be spending more time in our homes than normal. Creating a healthy home environment is more
What do you want to be doing in 30 years? Each of us has work that energizes us and work that drains us. Writing energizes me. Sales drains me. A good test to figure this out is: how do you feel when
Photo by Scott Webb/Unsplash At a conference in 2012, Luc van Loon was presenting some exciting data from a newly published study . After a heroic research effort that took 2.5 years and 500,000 euros
2006 wasn’t a great year for our brains. In July, Twitter launched to the world, and in September, Facebook added the News Feed. But neither was particularly popular yet and if you look at the top 10
Back in college, one of my best friends was a prodigious chess player. He'd won a few regional championships and was pretty highly rated. Before I met him, I'd considered myself a competent player. Ba
A common San Francisco pattern goes like this: spend 5 years at a tech company, take acid, go to a mediation retreat, hit up a festival, realize the spiritual corruptness of the employee lifestyle, dr
As a New York tech yuppie, I’m obligated to work out at Equinox. When you enter an Equinox, you’re greeted by their current advertising campaign: Commit to Something. It’s a sexy, alluring, call to ac
( Original Thread: https://twitter.com/liminal_warmth/status/1221903440713895936 ) So I’ve mentioned before that I’m going through kind of a big life shift right now. I quit a very lucrative job that
Hi friend, Long time no chat. I’ve spent August figuring out how learning works and how we can apply spatial cognition and computers to improve how we learn. And I’ve got some pretty exciting stuff co
“Spaciousness” is freedom from fixed meanings . Spaciousness liberates you from automatic interpretations, and from habitual responses. Lacking spaciousness, here is the pattern of life: Something hap
4Chan, Heidegger, and the Embodiment of Self-Improvement 4channers have the hypertrophied intuition of damaged men: they mix being absolutely retarded on the personal level with sociological takes fro
The second dubious virtue is recklessness. As with desperation , there are many bad ways to be reckless. There is a nihilistic recklessness, in those with a muted ability to feel and care, that is sel
Ok, so "try" is actually a pretty useful concept; there's a reason we have a very short word for it in the English language. Nevertheless, I have found it quite useful to occasionally spend a few week
A decade ago, I decided to save the world. I was fourteen, and the world certainly wasn't going to save itself. I fumbled around for nine years; it's surprising how long one can fumble around. I someh
In fiction, protagonists narrow their focus until the difference between success and failure on their specific task seems like the difference between victory and defeat. Batman attempts to solve the m
A friend of mine came to me and said that he cares about his immediate friends, and he cares about humanity in the abstract, but he has trouble caring for most people. They seemed too shallow, too bit
Consider fictional Carol, who has convinced herself that she doesn't need to worry about the suffering of people who live far away. She works to improve her local community, and donates to her local c
Image source Some of the most productive people in the world swear by a technique called time blocking . Ever heard of Elon Musk , Bill Gates, or Cal Newport ? Yep – all time-blockers. And they’re not
Content note: these next few posts are not going to be for the faint of heart. Sometimes, when people see that their life is about to get a lot harder, they start buckling down. Other times, they star