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…if it's anything like mine[1]. If it isn't, then maybe treat this as an opportunity to fight the typical mind fallacy by getting a glimpse at what's going on in other minds. I've made many predictions and have gone through a lot of calibration training over the years, and have...

If you (understandably) think "this post is too long, ain't nobody got time for that!" I suggest scrolling to ~the middle of the post and at least check out the Mandelbrot Training Animation(s). I think they're pretty neat. After going through ~half of the ARENA curriculum, I couldn't stop myself...

…or the it doesn’t make a difference anyway fallacy. Improving Productivity is Futile I once had a coaching call on some generic productivity topic along the lines of “I’m not getting done as much as I’d like to”. My hope was that we might identify ways for me to become...

Have you ever been endlessly procrastinating on some task, but then once you eventually, finally do it, you realize that it is not half as bad as you thought? Somehow, many of us keep overestimating how unpleasant it will be to engage with certain types of work to a degree...

Throughout the first half of 2025 I did a blinded experiment to see how low to moderate melatonin intake affects me. In this post I summarize my findings. Tl;dr: In my blinded self-experiment on melatonin, conducted over n = 60 days and analyzed with hypothesize.io, I found significantly positive effects...

Epistemic status: a model I find helpful to make sense of disagreements and, sometimes, resolve them. Update: I should mention that this model is loosely based on things I've read elsewhere. There are many sources dividing "types of claims" into facts, values and policy. I'm not sure where I originally...

One concept from Cal Newport's Deep Work that has stuck with me is that of the any-benefit mindset: > To be clear, I’m not trying to denigrate the benefits [of social media]—there’s nothing illusory or misguided about them. What I’m emphasizing, however, is that these benefits are minor and somewhat...