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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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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 sometimes leads to limiting conceptions of the world that we need to be able to break out of.
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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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Delight in the imperfect
The world is a mess, and we can feel upset about that but at the same time notice that it's hilarious. Here's how.
David R. MacIver
Apr 18
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Describing imaginary experiences
It seems to be very hard to describe the experience of visualisation and other imagination. Here's my attempt at doing so.
David R. MacIver
Apr 14
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Education by punishment
Being part of society requires certain skills. Unfortunately, while we are happy to require these skills of people, we often completely fail to teach…
David R. MacIver
Apr 4
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Ubj gb ernq EBG13 (How to read ROT13)
Would you like to learn to read ROT13? Of course you would! Let me tell you all about it.
David R. MacIver
Apr 1
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Looking for dragons drives progress
What sorts of problems create innovations? Bell Labs seems like a pretty central example, and I argue that a lot of why they were as successful as they…
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Mar 17
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How to understand groups of people
You can't just think of people as rational actors responding to incentives, but you also you can't ignore incentives. The solution is to think in terms…
David R. MacIver
Feb 10
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