My year of magical not-thinking
A Year of Magical Thinking
Elite impunity has fueled the fantasy that catastrophes are for other people.
Do not give up your brain
It's tempting to just let tools think for you, but you still need to be able to think for yourself and stay sharp.
Thinking Frameworks | 2021
Sharing out the best meta-thinking tools I’ve learned this year
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
The wandering mind: A gift we squander - Darius Foroux
Most people treat a wandering mind like a defect. They see it as a leak in their productivity bucket. We’ve been conditioned to believe that if we aren’t staring at a screen or checking off a to-do list, we are failing. But Daniel Goleman, the […]
How to know what you really want and be free from mimetic desire | Psyche Guides
From career choices to new purchases, use René Girard’s mimetic theory to resist the herd and forge your own path in life
Passing Reads
Share your old books with new friends. Find great new stories and see who loved them before you!
Passing Reads
Share your old books with new friends. Find great new stories and see who loved them before you!
In 2026, I’m no longer interested in ‘working on myself’
We think of ourselves as full-time projects, but what if doing so much inner work does more harm than good?
Realization experiences: a convergent account of insight and mystical experiences
We argue that the powerful transformative effects of mystical-type experiences can be understood using the same machinery that underlies insight problem solving, and that both mystical experiences ...
Andrew Ho on Twitter / X
Not really observations that others before me haven’t made, but:- Despite the seemingly magical nature of LLMs, reflection over a >3 month timescale suggests my total productivity hasn’t increased by over 100%, or perhaps even by over 50%, and a lot of time is actually wasted…— Andrew Ho (@andrewho03) September 3, 2026
go live a life you're actually interested in
Smoke-away on Twitter / X
Andrej Karpathy: "What you want is the inner thought monologue of your brain... The trajectories in your brain as you're doing problem solving, if we had a billion of that, AGI is here roughly speaking." pic.twitter.com/C0kBUITPBv— Smoke-away (@SmokeAwayyy) October 18, 2024
Had to put some thoughts to digital paper on my recent journey.
The Power of a Well Built Community
mihaizaurus.leaflet.pubI accidentally wrote a whole post thinking back on the last year of Roomy development.
Learning To Write Software… Is Hard - Zicklag's Leaflets
zicklag.leaflet.pubhad this idea a few weeks ago either before going to sleep or in a dream, but i still really like it so i refined it just now. what r we thinking?
Atmocraft idea
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