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Overthinking Everything
Miscellaneous thoughts as I figure out life
By David R. MacIver · Launched 2 years ago
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How to pick a number for any purpose
Estimation should often start with coming up with a range of plausible values for the true value. In this article I show how that works.
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How to think about task estimation
Task estimation is hard because you don't actually know what task estimation is. Let me fix that for you.
David R. MacIver
Jul 18
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Learning and teaching practical wisdom
Practical wisdom is the quality of knowing what to do is in a particular practical contexts. We all have some of it, and we could all benefit from…
David R. MacIver
Jun 27
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A good start
Some parables about practical wisdom and the meaning of life.
David R. MacIver
Jun 21
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Parts of you haven't grown up yet
We don't grow up all at once, and growing up fully requires us to acknowledge the parts of ourselves that aren't there yet, and help them grow up at…
David R. MacIver
Jun 6
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How do we treat unique talents?
Some people are a mix of too odd to fit in and too useful to ignore. I worry that we don't treat those people very well.
David R. MacIver
May 27
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Learning to walk through walls
It's easier to become good at restricted ways of interacting with the world than it is to grasp it in its full complexity. This is fine and good, but…
David R. MacIver
May 16
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Learning from others' stories
One of the best things you can do to improve at a skill is have a community of people you swap stories about it with, and to extract discrete tactics…
David R. MacIver
Apr 29
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