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Why do you do the things that you do?
Human flourishing requires embracing the specific. You must follow the inscrutable exhortations of your soul.
May 28
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David R. MacIver
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Starting from where you are
If you want to get better, you need to start by being honest about your current level.
May 23
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David R. MacIver
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February 2023
Reading philosophy for the examples
Philosophy books often have really good examples. Here are a few of my favourites.
Feb 27
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David R. MacIver
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How things come to be as they are
I basically look at everything through the lens of evolution. You should too.
Feb 19
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David R. MacIver
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The problem shows you how to solve the problem
When trying to solve a problem, it is often better to start from the specific resources that the problem grants you than it is to fall back on general…
Feb 11
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David R. MacIver
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Cohering and decohering
There's a noticeable experience of being more or less cohered around a single focus at a given point in time, and it's interesting and useful to tease…
Feb 5
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David R. MacIver
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November 2022
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…
Nov 7, 2022
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David R. MacIver
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September 2022
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…
Sep 16, 2022
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David R. MacIver
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…
Sep 5, 2022
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David R. MacIver
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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…
Sep 2, 2022
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David R. MacIver
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July 2022
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.
Jul 25, 2022
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David R. MacIver
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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.
Jul 18, 2022
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David R. MacIver
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