Category Archives: life maintenance
Instrumental behaviour: Inbox zero – A guide – v2
This post is modified from the original. Original post: Instrumental behaviour: Inbox zero – A guide This will be brief. Inbox zero is a valuable thing to maintain. Roughly promoted around the web as having an empty inbox. An email inbox … Continue reading
New year’s resolutions: Things worth considering for next year
Original post: New year’s resolutions: Things worth considering for next year This post is duplicated in full from the original. The beginning of the new year is a natural Schelling Point and swiftly approaching. With that in mind I have created … Continue reading
A purpose finding exercise
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
Lost purposes – Doing what’s easy or what’s important
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
Turning the dial to eleven
I have a local lesswronger, he likes to use the phrase, “turning the dial to eleven”. I think XKCD emphasises it well: There’s something sweetly satisfying about turning the dial TO THE MAX just to see what it does. The really beautiful thing … Continue reading
Should you share your goals?
It’s complicated. And depends on the environment in which you share your goals. Scenario 1: you post on facebook “This month I want to lose 1kg, I am worried I can’t do it – you guys should show me support”. Your … Continue reading
Cholesterol in the body
I measured my cholesterol. It’s a bit high at 5.5mmol/L. But I was wondering what that means… So I figured I would run the numbers. I weigh 73.2kg today. If you make the assumption that humans are a homogeneous blob … Continue reading
Burn rates
Burn rate is a term used to describe a startup that is not yet making more money than it spends. It makes a lot of sense if you can imagine a company like Uber thinking, hmm – we need users, … Continue reading
Addendum to: “should you reverse any advice you
Should You Reverse Any Advice You Hear? This post relates to the above SSC post. Scott says: That lots of the advice people give is useful for some people, but that the opposite advice is useful for other people. For example, … Continue reading
