Self-mastery – mastering your body and mind

In my self-mastery posts I write about concrete, applicable tools and tricks for applying our knowledge of ourselves – our self-awareness – to (1) achieve our goals, and (2) align our beliefs as closely as possible with reality.

Some specific topics covered are: life-hacking, achieving goals (“winning”), rationality tools and exercises, anti-akrasia, thinking dispositions, epistemic accuracy

Switch by Chip and Dan Heath – Summary

Bookshelf

This article contains my book notes for Switch by Chip and Dan Heath. ((Chip Heath and Dan Heath. 2010. Switch. Crown Business.)) Summary (What You Need to Know) Your brain is like an elephant with a rider perched on top. The rider does the planning and analyzing. The elephant provides the emotional energy. To create […]

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“Debiasing” by Richard Larrick (2004)

Self-mastery

This article contains my summary notes for “Debiasing” by Richard Larrick (2004), a chapter from the Blackwell Handbook of Judgment and Decision Making. ((Larrick, R. P. (2004). Debiasing. In D. J. Koehler & N. Harvey (Eds.), Blackwell Handbook of Judgment and Decision Making, (pp. 316–337). Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Retrieved from here.)) What You Need to […]

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My Pomodoro Project

Productivity & Organization

Update: Added weekly log, and updated some project details. The Pomodoro Technique is a productivity technique which can be summarized thusly: Work for 25 minutes. Take a 5 minute break. Repeat. Occasionally take longer breaks. There’s a little more to it than that, but that’s the core idea. I first heard about it at my recent CFAR minicamp. I […]

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My “Inbox Zero” System

Self-mastery

Inbox Zero is an email inbox philosophy that comes from Merlin Mann, the creator of 43folders. As the site says, Inbox Zero is about getting your brain out of your email inbox. For me, personally, this means getting my inbox down to zero emails, and keeping it that way—whenever it’s not empty I process it as […]

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