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Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value.

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    1. David R. MacIver‏ @DRMacIver Feb 20
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      Emotional reactions as legacy code https://notebook.drmaciver.com/posts/2020-02-20-09:31.html …

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    2. David R. MacIver‏ @DRMacIver Feb 20
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      As a side note, a lot of why I'm doing this is because I'm *really* struggling to write PhD stuff at the moment (thanks depression), so am applying the fully general system to try to work through that: https://www.drmaciver.com/2019/05/how-to-do-hard-things/ …

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    3. David R. MacIver‏ @DRMacIver Feb 21
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      Constraints on skill growth: https://notebook.drmaciver.com/posts/2020-02-21-10:04.html … Why after a certain point the best way to get better at a skill can be to learn a different skill.

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    4. David R. MacIver‏ @DRMacIver Feb 22
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      You should try bad things: https://notebook.drmaciver.com/posts/2020-02-22-11:37.html … If you never try things you expect to be bad, your interests can only narrow over time because you will learn that things you thought were good are bad, but will never learn that things you thought were bad are good.

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    5. David R. MacIver‏ @DRMacIver Feb 22
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      BTW I'll be running out of backlog after not too long, so if there's anything you'd like me to write about at roughly this level of quality, feel free to drop me a prompt.

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    6. David R. MacIver‏ @DRMacIver Feb 23
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      Legibility privileges https://notebook.drmaciver.com/posts/2020-02-23-09:37.html … The way we talk about marginalisation strongly centers marginalisations that we can easily communicate, which misses the long tail of messy and hard to communicate ways that people can be marginalised.

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    7. David R. MacIver‏ @DRMacIver Feb 24
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      All knowledge is connected https://notebook.drmaciver.com/posts/2020-02-24-10:37.html … Why you can't really understand gender without also understanding nuclear war and phenomenology.

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    8. David R. MacIver‏ @DRMacIver Feb 25
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      How to make decisions https://notebook.drmaciver.com/posts/2020-02-25-10:39.html … All decision making processes need to be obviously better than tossing a coin, and many of our idealised models of decision making aren't.

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    9. David R. MacIver‏ @DRMacIver Feb 26
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      The fastest way to learn something is to do something https://notebook.drmaciver.com/posts/2020-02-26-16:07.html … How to avoid overplanning when trying to solve a problem.

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    10. David R. MacIver‏ @DRMacIver Feb 27
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      Supersaturation of knowledge https://notebook.drmaciver.com/posts/2020-02-27-17:48.html … When you read a metric tonne of books per week, weird things start happening in your brain.

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      David Chapman‏ @Meaningness Feb 27
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      When my mother was doing her PhD she said it got to the point of fullness of one fact in meant one fact fell out. That stuck with me and I expected the same during mine but it was more like sudden crystallization, as you are experiencing. Maybe facts vs concepts

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        2. David R. MacIver‏ @DRMacIver Feb 27
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          Yeah, I think this is probably only true for concepts, although I expect sprinkling a fact or two in there helps.

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        3. David R. MacIver‏ @DRMacIver Feb 27
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          TBH I struggle to remember facts at all. Who are you again?

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