Tag Archives: Advice

Out to Get You

Posted on September 23, 2017 by TheZvi

Epistemic Status: Reference. Expanded From: Against Facebook, as the post originally intended. Some things are fundamentally Out to Get You.  They seek resources at your expense. Fees are hidden. Extra options are foisted upon you. Things are made intentionally worse, forcing … Continue reading →

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Write Down Your Process

Posted on July 24, 2017 by TheZvi

Previously: Help Us Find Your Blog (and others) Mark Rosewater is the lead designer of the collectible card game Magic: The Gathering. This means he is part of Magic’s R&D department, one of the world’s few pockets of cooperation, sanity and … Continue reading →

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Against Facebook: Comparison to Alternatives and Call to Action

Posted on April 22, 2017 by TheZvi

Previously: Against Facebook: Details Take Action: Help Us Find Your Blog (and others) Epistemic Status: Shouting from the rooftops. For further details, see previous post. This post is my recommendations for how to communicate online. If you need details and/or detailed … Continue reading →

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You’re Good Enough, You’re Smart Enough, and People Would Like You

Posted on April 9, 2017 by TheZvi

Epistemic Status: Playing the odds Originality Status: Very low. These are not unique views and this has been said many times before, so apologies if you’ve seen it many times before, but the message never gets through, so we keep … Continue reading →

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Avoiding Emotional Dominance Spirals

Posted on March 30, 2017 by TheZvi

Follow Up to: Dominance, care, and social touch One thing Ben said in his latest post especially resonated with me, and I wanted to offer some expanded thoughts on it: Sometimes, when I feel let down because someone close to me … Continue reading →

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Restaurant Guide 2: Pizza

Posted on March 17, 2017 by TheZvi

Continuation From: Restaurant Guide 1 Epistemic Status: Hungry Pizza is a special case that is worthy of its own attention, so this section will do that. There isn’t as much of a boarder thesis here, and the judgments are more … Continue reading →

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Trio Walks, Duo Talks

Posted on March 11, 2017 by TheZvi

Epistemic Status: Exploration Related: The Engineer and the Diplomat Having a great conversation is hard, but valuable. The structure a conversation is built around determines how it will go. How should we engineer more valuable conversations? At the retreat, it was … Continue reading →

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What is stupid?

Posted on May 12, 2015 by TheZvi

In a post that I mostly agreed with, but am also mostly not that interested in, Scott Sumner concludes with the following note: But I also understand that the part of my brain that tells me that the conventional narrative … Continue reading →

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