Overthinking Everything

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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…
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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…
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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.
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It seems to be very hard to describe the experience of visualisation and other imagination. Here's my attempt at doing so.
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Being part of society requires certain skills. Unfortunately, while we are happy to require these skills of people, we often completely fail to teach…
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Would you like to learn to read ROT13? Of course you would! Let me tell you all about it.
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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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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…
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There is a persistent idea that people work 40 hours a week. They don't, and if you try to do this it will break you. Here are some more reasonable…
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I'm not writing my newsletter this month because I'm writing on my notebook instead. This is just a pointer in that direction.
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Would you like to know about how feelings work? Because this is a long piece about how feelings work and how to recognise yours.
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Sometimes you just start writing a newsletter about a neat little metaphor and end up screaming onto the page. Sorry.
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