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by vonnik 3y ago
This is great downside protection against the quack methods that have sucked millions out of public school budgets: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2023/09/08/c... But … phonics stil
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Robert Lustig makes the point in this podcast with Huberman that the sugars and transfats in processed food are responsible for a lot of inflammation that comes from the modern diet. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas
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BJ Fogg’s Tiny Habits is a great method in which will power plays a very small part.
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I actually admire other work that EAs do, but disagree with them and the broader safetyist coalition on this issue. There are critiques and negative evaluations that have nothing to do with offense. You've simply chosen the wrong word
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I don't see how "offensive" is involved here. I am not offended by them. I simply disagree with their conclusions, which I believe are the result of fairly typical social and cognitive errors. Personally, I am neither convinc
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These two things are not the same. On the decel side, you do have cult-like behavior in EA. But it is not opposed by another cult. E/acc vaguely gestures at beliefs, but it’s a loose affiliation of people attempting to create an explic
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Parenting young children taught me everything I know about bribery, threats and diversions. Negotiations get real fast when the kids don’t have the judgment to stay safe.
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Yeah, well, if you're nice and helpful to enough people eventually you cross a threshold to just being a good guy, at which point, the deranged behavior of a couple poorly qualified board members ceases to matter.
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I second this. As someone who's operated in the startup and YC ecosystems for years, I've seen Sam help a lot of people with no clear upside for himself. He's a net plus to Silicon Valley and SF by a long shot.
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In my case, macro and more of it. Huberman recommends 11min per week. For better or for worse, I'm doing a little over twice that.
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I’m very lucky that a gym on my walking route to work installed a cold plunge. So I can get cardio and sauna from the same routine. (The effects in the first comment can and do come from pure plunge tho.)
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Anecdata: ice plunges are a meta-cognitive skill. Several minutes in 45 F water results in a 12h+ boost in mood and good feelings in the limbs and skin, and 2-3 hours of heightened attention. I’m currently doing this ~4 times a week. It’s t
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Was going to recommend Tiny Habits. The Beeminder thing is such a pressure cooker of motivation, when you can achieve so much by finding the right context and trigger for a small action.
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Shallow ahistorical analysis. Apple and Microsoft were born in the oil shocks of the late 70s and survived Volcker’s high rates through the early 80s. Google barely took off before the tech crash wiped out the Valley in 2001. Many companies
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In the War Against Russia, Ukrainian Andrey Liscovich Carries a Shopping List(wired.com)
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Anybody who likes the idea of a sabbath should experiment with a digital one. Lock the screens in a box and look around the room, or get outside. I did it accidentally by leaving my phone in a locked room overnight and it was really liberat
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Any time someone advocates for massive redistribution, as degrowth does, ask to whom they propose to give that power of appropriation, and why they trust them to use it wisely. What differentiates redistributive degrowth from certain forms
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> We could fix this stair. It would just require the raw data from a variety of pharmacokinetic trials, some in-depth experiments on human liver and gastric membranes, and some simulation of the physics of how different drugs diffuse int
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One key piece of this that I think it overlooked is how our socio-economy has sold most of us on our difference, we've been very actively individuating and seeking signs of distinction that happen to be items and services we can buy. A
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Technical debt can be used to describe any software that serves the maker’s intent but not your own.
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I agree about evaluate positioning 3 yrs in, assuming you’ve hit PMF. But as long as you have PMF in a big market, there is no trough of sorrow. These two things are mutually exclusive, and if you have the sorrow, you do not have PMF. I say
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by vonnik 3y ago
This blog post illustrates the problem it purports to discuss. The “in medias res” lede is gratuitous. The headline does not name the real actor. The fact is that some teachers and schools teach writing well, and many don’t. You don’t have
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by vonnik 3y ago
This article does not really apply to startups’ trough of sorrow, at least not most of the startups trying to sell something new. It reads like it applies to consumer goods that are in crowded markets. Most startups’ problem is they often d
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> e.g. while Russia is responsible for invading, Victoria Nuland was caught red-handed orchestrating the Ukrainian coup/government that precipitated it. The claim of "orchestrating a coup" is unsupported by evidence, and a
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Daily reader of Meduza here. They publish consistent and high quality coverage both about headline events in the war as well as odd ramifications of it in Russia and Ukraine. And it doesn’t have the annoying US-centrism of Ukraine coverage
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by vonnik 3y ago
I totally agree, but they covered that in the Edgeworth article, so I didn’t feel like I needed to bring it up in comments. But yeah, exposure, guidance toward the good stuff, and thinking about what makes it good. Totally agree.
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I'm sure that's the case for a fair number of schools. And I also think that in many others, it doesn't happen. There's huge variation across schools and districts. But... I think parents can greatly augment those school
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I hear that. I also wasted several years of piano lessons that I had to attend as a boy, only to come back to the instrument much later. I'm very much on the "inspire kids to want to do something" side of education and skill
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by vonnik 3y ago
Since this piece is about inculcating a child with taste, I'd just like to say that in my own life, learning the basics of an analog art form like sketching or piano has been the most powerful way to appreciate the effects that the art
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by vonnik 3y ago
I should have clarified: This piece is about matters of taste. So a national authority regarding aesthetics.

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