leadership High-standards satisficer If you care about results, it really doesn't matter that you're finding the best choice of a bad pool. It's much better to find a top-percentile choice in a great pool.
leadership Your circus, your monkeys: making good decisions Compromise is working through disagreements by finding a bad decision on which there's consensus.
3 Principles: Competence, Collaboration, and Prudence How to pursue a good life if there's no consensus or proof of what "good" means? How do we ensure we're working towards our collective goals, be they at our company, family, or community, if they are unclear or when we're far
leadership Easy and Hard activity routines I use "ambition is useful, greed is not" as the motto for "make things as hard as you can – but not harder."
leadership Autonomy and Opportunity You increase your autonomy by building automation and delegation, and increase opportunity by building credibility.
leadership Building patience by managing complexity Impatience, and its feelings of frustration, restlessness, agitation, and annoyance, won't lead to sustainable top performance, so it's a poor tool for collaboration.
self-discipline Featured How I choose books to read My personal library has a curated list of books that I've previously chosen as interesting and that are immediately accessible in my living room for no extra cost.
self-discipline Featured Overcoming anxiety with self-efficacy Your anxiety decreases at the rate your mastery increases.
105 hours 120% time – committing 8 hours a week 400 hours is enough to make progress on pretty much anything: learning AI, building your MVP product, learning the guitar, writing 100 blogposts, reading ~70 books, ...
philosophy Featured Rethinking Mill's harm clause under Capitalism and AI How should you, as an individual, change your day-to-day economic interactions with others based on the harm clause and their lack of access to basic needs?
self-discipline Featured Lives Well Lived podcast I was on the Lives Well Lived podcast with Peter Singer & Kasia de Lazari Radek
leadership A fun, good, nice job No matter what brackets you define for your A, B, and Cs to rate how fun, good, and nice the jobs are, not every job, in every career, will have the potential to be an AAA.
ai Featured How does ChatGPT work? I think part of the reason ChatGPT is hard to understand is that we lack the foundational concepts to build upon when reasoning about it.
philosophy Featured Religion, Politics, and Moral Philosophy Each of us will have our own guides for moral truth: our religion and preachers, our politics and politicians, our favorite philosophy and philosophers, and our own ideas and feelings on what is right and wrong
self-discipline Knowledge, Practice, Trial and Performance One thing is certain: performing 100% of the time and not employing knowledge, practice, or trials is not an efficient way to improve your competencies
leadership Using core values as constraints While values that maximize success seem like a playing-to-win tactic, values that constrain possible moves seem like a scrub tactic. But of course, they're the same set of values.
leadership Featured The 4 downsides of Slack communication vs meetings While Alice had a "quick question," Bob absolutely didn't have a "quick answer" – a typical Slack affliction.
leadership Using skill-pressure to build competencies Skill-pressure is a common thing, it just doesn't have a well-known name.
leadership 3 Steps for long term career planning If you don't plan your long-term career, you'll still have a long-term career, just not the one you planned.
philosophy Featured Universal Excellence – Pursue excellence in everything you choose to do The gaps in our lives are filled between our current state and our potential.
philosophy Stories are the brain's programming language I think the most important reason for reading fiction is it's one of the best methods available for deliberately updating our own values
philosophy Exploring the morality of actions when removing money's influence Would we morally judge this exact action differently if there was no money involved?
self-discipline Featured High expectations and high slopes of growth If we want to increase our growth the most over time, which characteristic will create the growth of the others?
leadership How to build a department To build groups, you must be able to perform roles, hire, and then give those roles away.