Practical posts give direct, actionable advice on how to achieve goals and generally succeed. The art of rationality would be useless if it did not connect to the real world; we must take our ideas and abstractions and collide them with reality. Many places on the internet will give you advice; here, we value survey data, literature reviews, self-blinded trials, quantitative estimates, and theoretical models that aim to explain the phenomena.

Material that is directly about how to think better can be found at Rationality.

Practical Sub-Topics

Domains of Well-being

Careers
Emotions
Exercise (Physical)
Financial Investing
Gratitude
Happiness
Human Bodies
Nutrition
Parenting
Slack
Sleep
Well-being

Skills, Tools, Techniques

Cryonics
Emotions
Goal Factoring
Habits
Hamming Questions
Life Improvements
Meditation
More Dakka
Pica
Planning & Decision-Making
Self Experimentation
Skill Building
Software Tools
Spaced Repetition
Virtues (Instrumental)

Productivity

Akrasia
Motivations
Prioritization
Procrastination
Productivity
Willpower

Interpersonal
Circling
Conversation (topic)
Communication Cultures
Relationship

Product Reviews