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Out to Get You
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
Posted in Death by Metrics, Facebook Sequence, Good Advice, Rationality, Reference, Uncategorized
Tagged Advice, Analysis, Decision Theory, Facebook, Guide, Model
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Write Down Your Process
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
Posted in Facebook Sequence, Good Advice, Magic: The Gathering, Personal Experience, Uncategorized
Tagged Advice, Magic: The Gathering
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Against Facebook: Comparison to Alternatives and Call to Action
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
Posted in Facebook Sequence, Good Advice
Tagged Advice, Analysis, Facebook, Guide, Optimization, Social
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You’re Good Enough, You’re Smart Enough, and People Would Like You
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
Avoiding Emotional Dominance Spirals
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
Restaurant Guide 2: Pizza
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
Trio Walks, Duo Talks
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
Posted in Good Advice, Rationality
Tagged Advice, Guide, Optimization, Rationality, Social
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