Overthinking Everything
Many things that seem hard you actually just lack an easy insight into, and it's worth spending some time investigating what those insights might be.
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Hi everyone, Today didn’t quite gel into a coherent narrative, so here are a bunch of loosely related fragments about the intersection between physical…
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One way to improve our life is to think of it in terms of discrete events that we want to do more or less of. Here are some tools that can help us do t…
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Hi everyone, Bryan Caplan has an interesting piece, Being Normal. In it he defines the “principle of normality”: A normal person says what others say, …
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Being disappointed in people for not living up to the best versions of themselves is uncomfortable, for both you and for them, but is a necessary and h…
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Hi everyone, I wrote a follow up to last week’s post, but it ended up having the wrong tone for a Sunday post (I’m not sure what that tone is yet, but …
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Everyone seems really into backseating other people's lives, and I think you're being an ass when you do this and I would like you to stop.
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Hi everyone, Welcome to the inaugural paid newsletter post! I haven’t yet decided exactly where to go with these yet, but likely many of them will be a…
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Overthinking Everything


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