Archive

	2021
June	Perception shifting: Consolidating learned experience into action Notes on exploring experience consolidation in organizational and personal contexts
	2016
August	Things I learned about being more effective at Effective Altruism Global 2016 Multipliers, good arguments, and more
August	Analogies are like lossy compression for complex ideas The benefits and pitfalls of analogies
July	How do you maintain original thinking and avoid traditional patterns of thought when learning about a new field? On paradigm blindness and thinking outside the box
	2015
December	Great books I read in 2015 A year in review
April	Question: What is the use of college? A question and some attempts at an answer
March	Things vs. experiences: two sides of the same coin Why both are valuable
March	Time constraints can increase efficiency The benefits of timeboxes
March	Building Sustainable Habits: Why We Make Excuses and Resist Habit Change Why do we have habits that we want to achieve, but still meet resistance?
March	The void of losing someone you don’t know On Aaron Swartz
March	Always choose to be happy’ is toxic advice On anti-action
March	Repositioning your perspective to achieve goals Changing your mindset
February	The Optimization–Cognitive Load Tradeoff The effect of optimization on cognitive load
January	Request: help on over-optimization. Reward: a story from Thailand My email for The Listserve
January	A technique for starting new habits and maintaining motivation: Attack Doses Methods for beginning new habits