Daily writing for today was the community guide for my discord server. I won't publish the link in public for now, but I'll put it up at some point later.
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It seems weirdly common for me to have longstanding irritations that are solvable pretty much as soon as I think about them for a few minutes and then try to solve them. I'm not sure what's up with that, but it seems worth keeping an eye on.
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Most people can be fine at most things given the right support, but instead when kids struggle with a subject we tell them that it's their fault, causing them lasting shame around it and making it harder for them to improve. This seems like a bad plan.
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Today is another day where my main public writing task was to work on the community guide, but actually I guess I'm happy to share it more broadly now.
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Existing complex systems are a great source of insight because they do a lot and they, for better or for worse, actually work, so you can learn a lot from studying them in detail.
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When making a plan, first decide what counts as "good enough" and make sure you're going to hit that. It takes a lot of the pressure off and you can now put as much effort into making it better as you decide you want to.
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People are bad at giving advice. Here is some advice on how to be good at giving advice, which starts by comparing you unfavourably to a rubber duck.
drmaciver.substack.com/p/how-to-give-
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People are really committed to believing that they can't solve their problems when the reality is that they are choosing not to. Choosing not to is 100% fine, but maintaining a lie that certain problems are unsolvable hurts people who want to solve them.
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Sorry, I accidentally wrote a thing about the nature of art. I'll go get my beret.
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This is a story about a seven year old, but it's not really a story about a seven year old.
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I'm slightly misusing the term here because it's normally more about comebacks and witty retorts, but I think it fits.
And thanks, glad you like it!
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