Recently I was talking with Brienne face-to-face, and she noted that a question I’d asked her would be much easier for her to answer if we were talking remotely over a text channel: Neat thing I learned from Ben Hoffman today: If I imagine that I'm typing at a computer while I'm actually talking to […]
In early 2014, as I was learning to be motivated by long-run considerations and make important tradeoffs, I started to worry that I was giving up something important about my old self - that some things that had been precious to me, would never quite be worth the price of holding onto, so the parts of […]
In a recent blog post I pointed to the idea that your brain has a sort of implied query language, and there are more and less efficient ways to ask it questions: I think an important abstraction here is that when you ask your brain a question, it’s often not enough to ask it something […]