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This read gives me a lot of perspective, and I identify with some of it. Have you written any other work?

• eternityforest 4y ago
  I'm just an artist/techie with no academic background in psychology(So feel free to call out any mistakes I've made!), but I have written(partly, I've been lucky enough to have a few contributors) this project(https://github.com/EternityForest/AnyoneCanDoIt https://github.com/EternityForest/AnyoneCanDoIt) which I believe someone actually reshared on HN a while back. Basically it's an attempt to document a set of strategies for doing things in a way that does not depend on having any particular talent, in the most extreme high-process way possible, to be scaled back or ignored as needed for a situation. It's based on some pretty "pop self help book" level pseudo-research. The other part of the project is the the math eli5, an attempt to document as much of the math that is actually useful or interesting in real life but that doesn't require years of study, plus the reasons why you would want to go and do that study, rather than actually trying to transmit the deep understanding(which I sure don't have!) directly. I've also got a blog(eternityforest.com) mostly full of more creative work and essays on random historical stuff, plus some unpopular opinions about how software is (mostly) not in fact going down down the toilet.