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How To Think Real Good | Meta-rationality

Practical epistemology: heuristics for how to think about difficult things, particularly using formal methods.

People Spend Too Much Time On Decisions with Equally Satisfying Outcomes

The pitfalls of analysis paralysis

Up and Down the Ladder of Abstraction

"In science, if you know what you are doing, you should not be doing it. In engineering, if you do not know what you are doing, you should not be doing it. Of course, you seldom, if ever, see either pure state."

The Paradox of Perfection: When ‘Good Enough’ is Actually Better

Exploring the tension between engineering perfectionism and pragmatic delivery. Discover why striving for the perfect solution often prevents us from shipping valuable improvements and how to find the balance.

‘Ugh Fields’, or why you can’t even bear to think about that task

Have you ever had a long-overdue task — a task which isn’t so bad in itself — but which you can’t even bring yourself to think about?

Your Most Improbable Life

Your life’s goal should be to become the most improbable person you can be.

Chasing life goals is a recipe for disaster – so try these tiny experiments instead

Whether its our careers, health or relationships, we often set the bar too high and end up feeling disappointed when it doesn’t work out. Try this new way of thinking … and you may just see some real results

Museletter #353: Deadly Optimism, Useful Pessimism

What's really needed is a realistic sense of what's possible, and a dogged determination to heal division, protect nature and culture, and build sustainable alternatives.

True resilience is not about bouncing back | Psyche Ideas

I hate talk of resilience: it places an expectation on people to return to how they were. That’s not how real recovery works

Laziness Does Not Exist

Psychological research is clear: when people procrastinate, there's usually a good reason

being too ambitious is a clever form of self-sabotage

on starting, doing, being, and becoming.

A quote from Andrew Quinn

One could say in the first quarter-century of my life, that while I was always fascinated by programming, I could never overcome the guilt of not really knowing whether the …

Like start-ups, most intentional communities fail – why? | Aeon Essays

Most utopian communities are, like most start-ups, short-lived. What makes the difference between failure and success?

Why major life decisions should be approached with ‘epistemic humility’ | Psyche Videos

At a crossroads in life? No matter how much you deliberate, one unknowable remains: the person you will be on the other side

Believing what we do not believe: Acquiescence to superstitious beliefs and other powerful intuitions.