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Wong Joon Ian

Lisbon

@joonian

Dec 28, 2019

I just read this ridiculously absorbing book review slash cognitive roadmap by

@ejames_c

and you should too!

commoncog.com

How The Superforecasters Do It

A comprehensive summary of superforecaster techniques from Philip Tetlock & Dan Gardner's Superforecasting. Because — let's face it — you want to predict the future, don't you?

what’s your workflow for writing these weekly? That’s a cadence I want to get into for my long delayed rebooted website

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I have a Tuesday deadline because that’s when I send out my newsletter. Sometimes I have the post planned out. Sometimes I don’t, and I hit Monday in a panic. But 9 times out of 10 it gets done. If you have a newsletter I’d be happy to be a subscriber, for deadline pressure! 😊

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How much time do you spend researching and writing each edition?

Cedric Chin

@ejames_c

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@joonian

The short pieces don’t take more than 2-3 hours. The longer ones can be up to 18 hours, I’m afraid.

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How do you fit in the hours required of the longer ones?

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It’s usually split over multiple nights. But the longer ones are driven by curiosity, so it doesn’t feel like work. (None of the longer ones recently were intentional — I did do a few series intentionally in the beginning, but these days it’s like falling into a rabbit hole.)