This article is long and will make you think. I recommend saving it to pocket and reading it in a comfy chair with a cup of earl grey tea. How do you lose weight? If we were to plug that question into
I was reviewing some notes from 1-1 meetings that me and my manager Dave used to have, and I thought I’d summarize a bunch of the repeated talking points we’ve had over the years. Identify and focus o
Most people don't think they "could" cure Alzheimers by snapping their fingers, and so they don't feel terrible about failing to do this. By contrast, people who fail to resist overeating, or who fail
Click Here To Listen to an Audio Recording of this Newsletter —— Covid hit New York pretty badly in the months of March, April, May and June. The death toll was rising fast and the city was ground zer
I've spoken at length about shifting guilt or dispelling guilt. What I haven't talked about, yet, is guilt itself. So let's talk about guilt. Guilt is one of those strange tools that works by not occu
Many people seem to think the 'good' state of being, the 'ground' state, is a relaxed state, a state with lots of rest and very little action. Because they think the ground state is the relaxed state,
This is a short public service announcement: you don't have to fail with abandon. Say you're playing Civilization , and your target is to get to sleep before midnight, and you check the clock, and it'
A few months ago, a friend of mine was describing her motivational issues to me. As an example, she explained she was having trouble making herself clean her room, despite her dissatisfaction with the
This is a system I only somewhat tongue in cheek refer to as “The Fully General System For Learning To Do Hard Things”. It’s a useful conceptual framework for how to get better at things that you curr
Epistemic Status: Not the best explanation of this it could be, but a good enough explanation. This post is a bit of an experiment, in that it exists mostly to teach you a word I find useful (in accor
My last few posts have been aimed at addressing what I call the "listless guilt," the vague sense of guilt that stems from not doing anything in particular. I said: The listless guilt is a guilt about
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What’s the digital equivalent of sticky notes? 01 Hey This was originally supposed to be a blog post about Hey . I wanted to write a longer essay about Basecamp’s new email tool and test if the app ac
Dear Gentle Reader, ——- Click Here for an Audio Recording of this Newsletter In this letter, we will be discussing the Lindy Effect. Well, specifically I will be exploring how the Lindy Effect can app
Click Here to Listen to an Audio Recording of this Newsletter — I’m currently watching the waves crash on the beach from a decent sized condo I am renting in a small town in England. It’s pleasant. Th
Our bodies are meant to move. This is obviously not a controversial statement. We’ve been moving around, lifting things, throwing things, running and walking for millions of years. One’s movement dema
@ATLeah suggested, "If you're inclined, a longer thread on how you are positioning yourself for job security and self-sufficiency (in an RV!) would be super interesting to read," so let's talk about t
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(Original Thread: https://twitter.com/liminal_warmth/status/1251939198392651777 ) Let's do an occult research update thread today with some observations, theories, and where I'm at with my research. T
You may have noticed that a career in the gig economy is inextricably linked with lifestyle design. People who live off gigwork also tend to design their lives a lot more actively than paycheck people
The challenge of building large-scale complex systems often gets caught between purist visions that never get off the ground and seemingly pragmatic random-walk tinkering that slowly grinds to a halt
What exactly are free agents free from ? In sports, a free agent is someone who is free of allegiances to a particular team. In knight-errantry, a freelancer is somebody who is free of allegiances to
Summary: I share my early experiments with OpenAI's new language prediction model (GPT-3) beta. I explain why I think GPT-3 has disruptive potential comparable to that of blockchain technology. OpenAI
My debate on crime rates with Michael Anissimov has been long and meandering, but I think we’re starting to come to something of a consensus. I think (I don’t know if Michael agrees) that the evidence
One of my favorite big German words is Fingerspitzengefühl , "finger-tips feeling." It denotes an instinctive skill at navigating ambiguous, uncertain , rapidly evolving tactical situations through a
Welcome back. Have your 2018 predictions and resolutions failed yet? No? Well, give it a few more weeks. Let's talk about why that is inevitable and what to do about it when it happens. It has to do w
The TL;DR Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are like drive-thru windows, but in code: they take inputs and give you predictable outputs . At its core, an API is a bunch of code that takes an i
But guess what? There’s no place to put the pen. What the fuck are they thinking about? So, what that is is, marketing people reacting to something that a competitor is doing and ignoring the fact tha
Software possesses an extremely strange property: it is possible to create high-value software products with effectively zero capital outlay. As Mozilla engineer Sam Penrose put it, software programmi
Table of contents I’m going to let you in on a secret of productivity. Those people you admire, the ones who make you wonder how on earth they accomplish so much? Those people might work more hours th
The obvious benefit to working quickly is that you’ll finish more stuff per unit time. But there’s more to it than that. If you work quickly, the cost of doing something new will seem lower in your mi
February 11, 2019 × Aaron Z. Lewis × Oakland, CA We need to talk about the way we talk about time. Calendar apps were supposed to make us feel at peace and in control. Instead, we’re scatter-brained,
This is a nice article from Dzongsar, he has an unusual take on things. THE DEITY PRINCIPLE AND THE AGE OF TARA Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche Deer Park Institute Bir, India April 2, 2017 Very briefly, I’
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