Tag Archives: Work

Empirically assess your time use

Core knowledge: List of common human goals Part 1: Exploration-Exploitation Part 1a: The application of the secretary problem to real life dating Part 1b: adding and removing complexity from models Part 2: Bargaining Trade-offs to your brain. Part 2a.1: A strategy against … Continue reading

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Low hanging productivity – improving your workspace

Tl;dr – Simple changes to workspaces like a big screen can make a big difference. This week I spent a few days away from my usual desk.  I have been house sitting.  I didn’t think too much of it; I … Continue reading

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Should you change where you live? (a worked “how to solve a question”)

It’s not a hard question, but it potentially has a lot of moving parts. This post is going to be two in one.  The first is whether you should move geography, the second is how I go through a problem. … Continue reading

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