Link to the sleep advice: http://lesswrong.com/lw/mvf/a_very_long_list_of_sleep_maintenance_suggestions/
Could one say that the human brain works best if it is slightly optimistically biased, just enough to have benefits of the neuromodulation accompanied with positive thinking, but not so much that false expectations have a significant potential to severely disappoint you? Are there some recommended sequences/articles/papers on this matter?
Parenting advice: The applicable threads aren't short on useful advice, but it's not really on parenting - more philosophical. Quite dissapointing. The notable exception, and I don't apologise to his naive contemporaries is Gunnar's work.
Believe it or not, The UN ranks parenting styles, allegedly, and the Triple P program tops the list.
It's useful for special needs parenting and regular parenting and for the rare and special breed that are parenting researchers.
One only has to google 'evidence based parenting' and see the Blogspot blog topping the list as a starter indication of the paucity of actual academic parenting research, in spite of the apparent lucrativity of entering the field. I suspect many young researchers or grad students specialise in an area too early, and do not get serious around relations young when many are starting our research, to consider the importance of parenting research.
All LessWronger's thoughts on these matters appreciated.
Looking thru the Repository Repository I can't find a nice category for a lot of real life or self help advice that has been posted here over time. Sure some belongs to the Boring Advice Repository but the following you surely wouldn't expect there:
Lets start with lukeprog's all-time favorite
What other real life advice would you like to see here?
There are also very good posts that might be relevant to a rationalists life but could also go into some Rationality Advice Repository - but then all of LW falls kind of into that category. Some examples:
I see that I'm unable to draw a clear line on what falls into this category and thus suggest that specific rationality advice of 'this kind' be left out.