KimSia Sim    

@KimStacks

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Joined February 2007

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    The four rules for an outsider of a discipline

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  2. Safari mobile tab down to 363

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  3. The customer service accounts on twitter are way better than those on the phone. I suspect due to less traffic in turn due to twitter having higher friction than phone is a good example of great customer service on Twitter Thank you 🙏

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  4. I like this but I’ll use different words. Focus is severely underrated even after u account for it being underrated. I’ll call this more like do one thing but stack it so that you have multiple ways to win. That way even if it fails you still come out ahead

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  5. Make it easy for me to request fee waivers. Thank you

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  6. the internet banking website doesn’t have an equivalent service and i tried service search using keywords “credit”, “waiver”, “fee”. Can you reduce such dark patterns please? I am a customer of your credit cards > 10 yrs.

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  7. I now see that most of my life, I made the mistake of rationalism

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  8. “... I will use making breakfast as a common source of examples. Formal rationality is neither necessary nor useful when frying an egg." /2

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  9. Fave part: "Cognitive bias research looks at how reasonableness fails to cope with formal games. Our shift in explanatory priority implies starting instead by examining situations that reasonableness deals well with…” /1

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  10. lol there should be a and it’s just a hall of shame of such ignorance

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  11. Only took 12 hrs for yo go from 7000 to inbox zero

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  12. “A rational theory is primarily epistemological; it wants to be a collection of true beliefs. A meta-rational understanding is primarily ontological; it wants to be a collection of useful distinctions“ From in

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  13. So combining everything I get, 1. Progress by end of week, Effort by end of day 2. Finish one thing a day 3. Stop midway today for easy next day

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  14. Another thing I learn from creative types is when to focus on the output (progress in project) and when to focus on the input (effort) From this interview , Christopher Nolan mentioned he looks at progress only at end of week /4

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  15. e.g. I finished closing about 4 issues yesterday. Then to prepare for today, I brain dumped tasks that I want to finish today. Find the easiest looking one — a bugfix. Then purposely write the code halfway with the uncertain part left as ?? /3

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  16. Have something done even if it may not matter for project This gives sense of accomplishment and makes me look forward to next day Know what to do the next day. Preferably, by writing code midway. A common writing advice in books such as the Writer’s Source Book /2

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  17. “I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next.” — Hemingway via This works well even for writing code /1

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  18. The social license part is particularly true in Asia

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  20. Just as good an answer for everyday living Not just for preparing a memorable week

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