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Overthinking Everything
Miscellaneous thoughts as I figure out life
By David R. MacIver
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Learning to exercise agency
What is agency? How does agency work? Can you get better at it? It's actually doing stuff that gets you what you want, IDK, and maybe respectively. Here are some useful distinctions and observations that might help.
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Nov 7, 2022
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How to think about estimation strategy
I like to think of estimations as moves in a game. The rules of the game are simple once you've picked the scoring system, but unfortunately the real…
David R. MacIver
Sep 16, 2022
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What is it like to read LitRPG?
Quick break from estimation, because I felt like writing something different, so today we’re going to talk about LitRPG, do some philosophy to it, and…
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Sep 5, 2022
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Estimation is inseparable from planning
Estimation is hard! Especially when you don't do enough of it. Some tales from my recent flat move and all the ways in which I got estimation wrong…
David R. MacIver
Sep 2, 2022
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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.
David R. MacIver
Jul 25, 2022
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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.
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Jul 18, 2022
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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…
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Jun 27, 2022
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A good start
Some parables about practical wisdom and the meaning of life.
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Jun 21, 2022
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