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It's doing quite well. Thanks for asking. :) Good observation re the forum: folks find it novel and engaging for about a week, then get bored of the repetition. Not very monetizabl…

Author here. I've spent a decade drinking my own "snake oil" (the advice in this essay), and I've only now committed it to writing so that others can apply it or ignore it as they …

> Do you think the people described thought about how to increase their practice surface area? No, they were simply /interested/. In fact, many of them did think about it. Many of …

This article makes me want to cry. I'm an unbelievably big Cormac McCarthy fan and the findings in his library shed so much light on many inscrutable and poetic passages from his b…

It's doing better than ever! LLMs offer the equivalent of $500k+ in outside funding if used correctly, so there's a huge uptick in # of new bootstrapped startups. In fact we (the I…

Gotcha! Shame on me. Just slapped a "Slim Shady" label on his hoodie. Won't fully stop the bleeding but at least a few more people will get it.

Author here. Good feedback: the text isn't nonsense, but it requires background knowledge that the man on the right is the rapper Eminem.

> I believe OP would agree that the Plan should be low quality, at least at the beginning. OP emphatically agrees. Overplanning is arrogance in a world with so many unknown unknown…

Couldn't agree more. I always return to the following quote [1] from Marvin Minsky, who's an intellectual hero of mine: > Most people think that accomplishments like [those of geni…

> It depends… Body isn’t in the same “mood” every time. And I space out sessions. I have to say that physiological randomness of this kind is one of the main "use cases" for struct…

Nice app! I've rolled my own custom solution inside of Notion, or else you'd probably have another signup.

Complex goals often require complex solutions. Keeping it simple is probably a good policy for most people most of the time. But for those who want to break through the plateaus th…

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I'm a big fan of all 5! Plus many, many more. I wasn't being hyperbolic in my use of the term "80/20." The aim, fire, scan article truly only represents about 20% of the tools/tech…

> On that note, read some Extended Mind philosophy if you haven’t, originally from Chalmers I believe Literally considering writing a book on extended mind theoretic ideas. Highly …

Really glad to hear that. My recommendation is to put a lot of emphasis on the "environment" step toward the end of the article. Otherwise, you might find yourself gaining a merely…

I enjoyed "On Bullshit" but I would much more emphatically recommend Frankfurt's "The Reasons of Love," [0] the basic argument of which is that self-love has been wrongly maligned …

> I say this as someone who was probably like you once. … I also tried all the meditation techniques whilst relentlessly trying to optimise my productivity, work and life, resultin…

The replication problems of the marshmallow test are certainly interesting, but I'm not sure how they are relevant to the point being made by Robert Sapolsky in the quoted passage.…

Author here. I am a fan of box breathing, along with several other "proven" breathing techniques. Not sure what the downside is of experimenting with new techniques to add to one's…