Last weekend I made myself a website. I had wanted to for ages—getting clients through word of mouth alone wasn’t cutting it. But only now, with Claude Code, was it easy enough. I was glad the marketing was paying off when I received an email from a potential client. It...
Figure from Chapter 4 of Understanding Knowledge by Michael Huemer On a high level there aren’t that many ways knowledge can be justified (or not). This figure from the book “Understanding Knowledge” by Michael Huemer illustrates the options you have: 1. Infinitism: you require that everything be justified with reasons,...
Before I had a baby I was pretty agnostic about the idea of daycare. I could imagine various pros and cons but I didn’t have a strong overall opinion. Then I started mentioning the idea to various people. Every parent I spoke to brought up a consideration I hadn’t thought...
I came up with these principles when I was a child myself. 1. Don’t be a sheep 🐑. Avoid mindlessly copying others. Resist the urge towards conformity. Think for yourself whether something is worth doing and useful for your goals. If appearing to conform is useful for your goals, think...
I really dislike the phrase "human values". I think it's confusing because: * It obscures a distinction between human preferences and normative values, i.e. what the author thinks is good in a moral sense * Insofar as the author thinks that fulfilling human preferences is good, they often leave this...
Some months ago I read the book "Talent" by Tyler Cowen and Daniel Gross. Published in 2022, it discusses how to spot talent using one's individual judgment (e.g. assessing a founder as VC). Importantly, it's not a book about how to create a standardized hiring process at a big company...
Some months ago I read the classic management book High Output Management and made a note of quotes that rang particularly true to me. I normally dislike this genre (management books), and disagree with some popular ones (I sympathize with this review of Scaling People, for example), but found High...