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Skin in the Game
We describe armchair philosophers, the likes of classical philosophers who really didn’t have access to science the way we do today. All they could do is sit in their chairs and ponder. It gives images of Freud in his study full … Continue reading
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Working with multiple problems at once
I have a friend who works in a charity which deals with people who are on the streets. She was telling me about the struggles they face and the difficulties they are working with. It seems like every person out … Continue reading
What does that look like in practice?
Part 1: Exploration-Exploitation Part 2: Bargaining Trade-offs to your brain. Part 2a: Empirical time management Part 3: The time that you have Part 3a: A purpose finding exercise Part 4: What does that look like in practice? Part 4a: Lost purposes – Doing … Continue reading
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Tagged critical thinking, introspection, questions, scientific method
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Experiments, iterations and the scientific method
Today, an ordinary day. I woke up at 6am. It was still dark out. I did a quick self-check. “Did I wake up with energy?” No not really… note to self. But it is quite early. Rewind one day. Yesterday … Continue reading
Quantified self – Tracking with a form
This is my daily survey for myself: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeeN80ltyWTP7S0B-Xwrg-ArwHRG6RyvUvJGl0ZpLR3C__Y3g/viewform There are many reasons for tracking. A few really good ones come from the book how to measure anything. Without annotating an entire book, here are a few good reasons to track (also why … Continue reading
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yak shaving 2
Part 1: Exploration-Exploitation Part 2: Bargaining Trade-offs to your brain. Part 2a: Empirical time management Part 3: The time that you have Part 3a: A purpose finding exercise Part 4: What does that look like in practice? Part 4a: Lost purposes – Doing … Continue reading
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Tagged broken, problems, projects, what's going on?, yak shaving
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An inquiry into memory of humans
In trying to understand how my memory for people works, I am trying to investigate in what order my people semantic network is arranged. For each exercise that follows you will need to think of a different person to avoid … Continue reading
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Tagged deliberate practice, experiment, memory, peak, recall, thought experiment
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Deriving techniques on the fly
Last year Lachlan Cannon came back from a CFAR reunion and commented that instead of just having the CFAR skills we need the derivative skills. The skills that say, “I need a technique for this problem” and let you derive … Continue reading
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Tagged derivations, introspection, learning, noticing, rationality
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Some notes from “Turn the ship around” By L. David Marquet
The premise of the book is that to be a good leader is to get people to follow you. which means you can be a leader by doing ridiculous things and have people just follow to see what will happen, … Continue reading
Lesswrong potential changes
This post duplicates the original. Original post: http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/nf2/lesswrong_potential_changes/ I have compiled many suggestions about the future of lesswrong into a document here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hH9mBkpg2g1rJc3E3YV5Qk-b-QeT2hHZSzgbH9dvQNE/edit?usp=sharing It’s long and best formatted there. In case you hate leaving this website here’s the summary: Summary There … Continue reading
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