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  • Four Types of Power, Revisited (a political framework)
  • Vandals (can be resisted)
  • Trolling is Limit Searching
  • Artistic Values for 2025
  • A Few Words About My Dad
  • The Eternal Existential Threats to Democratic Societies
  • Did She Really Lose?
  • Ringstation Coalition Human Rights Charter
  • Why Do We Try Hard Things?
  • Words in a Likely Order
  • 10K Hours is B.S.
  • No More Building on Sand
  • Reading in Crockett
  • How to More Easily Use Your Own Power
  • Take Your Wins
  • What I’m Doing to Stay Organized in 2024
  • Alta (She Made History)
  • New Progressive House/Deep House Jondi & Spesh Album
  • How I Maintain Motivation (and dopamine levels)
  • Purpose Is the Fifth Idol
  • What’s Next? Post-Pandemic Expansiveness…
  • New Novella Acceptance, Thoughts on Gender Dysphoria, Art and Money
  • A Proposal for Distributing Royalties for AI Generated Artworks “in the style of…”
  • Communications from my Past Self (and other reasons to write)
  • AI Gone Wild — Should AI Be Allowed in Art?
  • Empowering Action vs. Depression
  • #3 on Beatport, Work Update, Succeeding Like Water
  • Two Small Pieces of Good News
  • New Music Release, Writing Update, Blogging Hiatus?
  • Life Update August 2022
  • How My Relationship with Making Music Has Changed
  • What Is Civilization? What Is Progress? (Roe vs. Wade)
  • How I’m Using My Distance Vision (through time, in life)
  • Play Yourself as a PC
  • Who Am I Trying to Impress?
  • Beat Week!
  • Free To Live, Pay To Party
  • More Kind but Less Nice
  • I’ve Made a Mistake
  • How I’m Protecting my Writing Time (and Sanity)
  • Apigenin as a Potential Anti-Aging and Anti-Disease Molecule
  • This Too Shall Pass
  • Having More Fun With It, Getting Better At It (Instead of New Year’s Resolutions)
  • A Merry Covid Christmas to You!
  • Doing Training, and Natural Talent is Not Holding You Back
  • Be Stupid Faster
  • Vaccine Hesitancy and the Pursuit of Purity
  • Did I Plagiarize Lloyd Alexander?
  • I Manifested High-Density Housing
  • Personal Update – Controlled Chaos!
  • Results of September Copy Practice
  • How I’m Promoting my Book (without going nuts)
  • I Stopped Drinking and Got Better at Chess
  • Excerpt from The Last Crucible
  • Superfood Series: Mushrooms (the food that is neither plant nor animal)
  • More on Ideological Subversion
  • Strategic Thinking: What Has Changed?
  • Ten Years Later, a New Pivot Point
  • Keeping Promises to the Reader
  • Rejecting the Covid Vaccine is a Poor-Odds Bet
  • A Solarpunk Manifesto
  • First Trip to Europe Since the Beginning of the Pandemic
  • Three Spreadsheets I Use While Writing a Novel
  • Superpower Habit: Learning How To Not Self Reject
  • Questions I’m Struggling With
  • Principles for Building Passive Income
  • Gastritis Healing Protocol (with hindsight)
  • Superfood Series: Cranberries (weight-loss, blood sugar, and other benefits)
  • Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
  • More Thoughts on Crypto (as a N00b)
  • Humbled by the Masters (on YouTube)
  • Clean-Up Days vs. Build-Up Days (in physiology and life)
  • Moving Beyond Punishment in Parenting
  • Why I Opened a Crypto Account
  • Index Funds are Getting More Dangerous — What’s the Alternative?
  • Two Supplements That May Clean Out Your Arteries
  • Why Small Repairs are Important
  • What Is the Limiting Factor?
  • Low Risk, High Reward, Lots of Dice Rolls (or Act Smarter)
  • Blogging in 2021 and Beyond
  • How Was Your Decade?
  • The Roaring Twenties Redux?
  • Reclaimed Earth Series Promotion (Cash and Book Prizes)
  • Is the United States Antifragile?
  • What Will the Structural Collapse (or Rebirth) of the United States Look Like?
  • How to Deal with Your Whiteness
  • Remembering to Be Emotionally Non-Reactive (Electric Hot Tub Emergency)
  • Mental Health Plan for Wildfires-Pandemic-Trumpocalypse
  • Nostalgia
  • Luck is the Opposite of Efficiency
  • How to Survive the Plague
  • Three Overlapping Problems: Racist Police, an Authoritarian Police State, a Complacent Citizenry
  • Remote Learning Parenting Strategies (while also getting your own work done)
  • Writing Process Update
  • Shelter-In-Place Update
  • New Interview and Excerpts from The Guardian
  • Don’t Pursue Your Career in a Way That Makes You Hate It
  • 2019: Fun Times and Existential Dread
  • Long-Term Thinking as a Coping Mechanism for Political Insanity (or Why I Write Science Fiction)
  • The Guardian Goodreads Book Giveaway, Awards Eligibility
  • How and When to Use Negative Visualization
  • The Guardian Book Launch, and a New Published Story
  • Imagining Best Case Scenarios
  • How It Feels to be a Novelist
  • Natural Hair Regrowth 2019 Update
  • Flash Book Sale, New Interview, and Beautiful Leia
  • Charles Koch: When Good Intentions Produce Evil Results
  • Word Craft #9: Spencer Ellsworth
  • Using Duotrope to Track Fiction Submissions
  • Your Passport’s Expiration Date Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Means
  • My Current Evidence-Based Anti-Aging Program
  • Rethinking Book Marketing, and Some Quotes from Reviewers
  • Word Craft #8: Brian Pinkerton
  • Communicating with Your Unconscious Mind (a Two-Way Street)
  • The Guardian Cover Reveal
  • How To Eat Animal Products and Still Protect Your Heart and Circulatory System
  • Word Craft #7: Russell James
  • Short Promotional Post, Upcoming Posts, and a New Experiment
  • Some Personal Updates, and a Request
  • Word Craft #6: Michael Haspil
  • Kindness and Free Will in an Uncaring Universe
  • Word Craft #5: Betsy Dornbusch
  • New Momu Album, and Arturia Softsynth Giveaway
  • Word Craft #4: Brian Trent
  • Strawberries, Fisetin, Health, and Longevity
  • Word Craft #3: Adrian Laing
  • Revisiting Goals and Intentions, 10 Years Later
  • Word Craft #2: Daniel M. Bensen
  • No More Fish Oil (Inflammation, Asthma, and Gastritis)
  • Word Craft #1: Catherine Cavendish
  • What I’m Grateful For This Christmas
  • Some of My Favorite Writing Advice
  • New Blog Series: 8 Aspects of Reversing Aging, and What Can Be Done Now
  • 2018 Awards Eligibility
  • Boosting Word Counts – November Productivity Test
  • A Special Announcement and Upcoming Blog Changes
  • Niagen, Niacin, Nicotinamide, and NMN (Current State of Anti-Aging Research)
  • First YouTube Review of The Sky Woman
  • Reviews!
  • How To Avoid A Mass Extinction Tipping Point (Simply and Cheaply)
  • Ultimate Brain Health Guide (Improve Working Memory, Mood, and Possibly IQ)
  • My Anti-Aging Experiment
  • What I’ve Been Up To (and what I’ll be blogging about in the coming months)
  • My Debut Novel “The Sky Woman” is Available for Preorder
  • Three Pillars of a Writing Career
  • New Short Story, and How To Solve Homelessness
  • Advice For Your First Writing Conference
  • “The Icelandic Cure” Book Contest (Decode Your DNA)
  • Three Foods That Reduce Blood Pressure (and Two That Might)
  • The Icelandic Cure – My First Book In Print
  • Accumulated Sleep Tips
  • Book Reading at Moe’s in Berkeley: The Icelandic Cure
  • Plan Your Whole Life
  • New Stories In Print/Online
  • Emotionally Blocked
  • A Terrifying Bout of Insomnia
  • No Car Experiment: Results and Conclusions
  • A Good Life Is Made of Small Things
  • My 2018 Motto
  • 2017 Personal Recap and Thoughts for 2018
  • Apple Cider Vinegar for Acitinic Keratosis
  • What Gig Needs to Do to Succeed
  • Walk Like a Medieval
  • Why I Like Fights (Consensual Violence)
  • Fiction Writing Update, Thoughts on Motivation and Incentive
  • Screen Time Battles–The Kid Solves It
  • Emotional Labor and Invisible Household Work – A Male Perspective
  • How Do We Reduce Young White Male Entitlement?
  • Gastritis Healing Tips
  • Eyes On The Prize: My Current Vision for a Messy Utopia
  • Music Update: Three New Releases, Still In The Game
  • Goals Are Falling Like Dominoes
  • Changing Social Norms Don’t Present an Existential Threat
  • I Have Seen the Future of Local Transportation
  • Limited Free Subscriptions to Cosmic Roots And Eldritch Shores
  • Problem List and 30-Day No Worrying Experiment
  • Why I Started (and Stopped) Running Google AdWords
  • Omnidawn Fabulist Fiction Prize
  • Seven Big Questions For the Next 100 Years
  • Lightweight Chromebook for the Travel Win
  • No Car Update: Month 16
  • A Few Things I’ve Learned in My Forties
  • Berry Beneficial (Health Benefits of Blueberries and Goji Berries)
  • Stunning New Ambient Album from Marshall Watson, Free Track, Personal Update
  • Coming Clean On A Few Things (and an Announcement)
  • New Published Story “The Fo’dekai Artifact”
  • Four Reasons to Supplement with Niacinamide
  • Activity Audit – Where Does All The Time Go?
  • Bone Healing Nutritional Protocol
  • Gambling With Your Time
  • Reminder To Eat Your Broccoli (and Rapini, and Kohlrabi, and Romanesco, etc.)
  • Fiction Writing History and Update
  • Lyft (and Uber?) Drivers Don’t Know Where They’re Going
  • Five Things That Made My Life 10% Better (Each)
  • 2017 Blog Preview
  • New 6-Week Experiment: Living With a Disability
  • How To Be Less Racist
  • Things I Regret KonMari’ing
  • DNAfit Revisited
  • Three Things Trump Can’t Do
  • How I Turned My Obsolete Early 2011 MacBook Pro Into a Screaming Fast Machine
  • WTF Just Happened?
  • How To Prevent Stress Spirals
  • Hair Regrowth Update 2016
  • How I’m Voting
  • Vitamin D and Other Immune Regulating Therapies for Schizophrenia
  • Eight Months Without a Car, Cost and Convenience
  • Happy at the Bottom
  • What the Oakland Police Department is Doing Right
  • New Horror/Philosophy/Culture Podcast, Ferrett Steinmetz Reading, Upcoming Posts
  • Career Advice I Wish I’d Received at Age 20
  • How To Reconcile Gratitude and Ambition (and a pitch for charity:water)
  • New Theme, and a Quick Story About How I Searched for a Nonexistent Phrase for More Than a Decade
  • Quality Control: Getting the Work Done Despite Your High Standards
  • Don’t Waste Money
  • Why Basic Income Makes Sense in the United States
  • Why I Support Campaign Zero and #BlackLivesMatter
  • Sunburned in Iceland, Brits in France, Driving in Rome
  • Let Me Mansplain Male Power To You
  • No Car Month 4 — The New Normal?
  • “Persistment” (My Take on “Grit”)
  • First Published Story! (“The Beef”)
  • What Does It Take To Create? (Four Aspects of Getting It Done)
  • No Car Month 3 – The Honeymoon Is Over
  • How I Broke Into the Music Business and Made $100K
  • Success Will Break You (Until It Forges You)
  • Can You Greatly Reduce Your Risk of Cancer with Lifestyle Changes?
  • How to Expand Your Cognitive Toolkit
  • No Car Update (Month 2)
  • What Makes a Good Coach?
  • New Release: Jondi & Spesh – Love Over Laps EP (and free download)
  • 5 Things You Can Eat to Improve Your Mood and Brain Function
  • Why We Love Conor McGregor (the Wonderful Insanity of Calling Your Shots)
  • One Weird Trick To Get Skinny, Rich, Tan, and Live Forever (No Car Experiment)
  • You Can’t Get There From Here (Get Better by Temporarily Getting Worse)
  • Switching to Self-Publishing Was Probably a Mistake
  • Investing a Lump Sum, Part I: The Dangers of Wealthfront
  • Kleidosty – Strange Skin (and choosing the creative life)
  • Paleo-Vegan Meal
  • The System is the Result
  • 2016 Blog Preview
  • 2015 Year-End Review
  • What Makes a “Loser”? (How to End Self-Sabotage)
  • The Awkward Question That Could Save Your Child’s Life
  • Which Supplements I Take, and Why
  • Peak Frustration
  • What Does Financial Freedom Mean to You?
  • 30-Day Experiment: Daily Idea List
  • Why I’m Joining the Maximizers
  • Update on the Facebook/Reddit Nuke Option
  • Preparing for No-Car Month (and a Driverless Future?)
  • How To Get Rich Slowly Without a High-Paying Job
  • Helping People — A Realization
  • 30-Day Experiment: How To Double Your Current Music Knowledge in a Month
  • I Quit Facebook and I Don’t Miss It
  • What’s Your Investor Personality (Shark, Monkey, or Ostrich)?
  • Bricks by the Bay 2015
  • Hair Regrowth Update and FAQ
  • Why I Quit Reddit
  • How To Organize and Prioritize Your Family Calendar
  • Personal Update, Track Download, Upcoming Posts
  • Take the Seven Word Challenge (Why do you do what you do?)
  • Congratulations to Oakland Teachers and OUSD! What’s next? Reform Prop 13.
  • How to Solve Your Money Emotions and Achieve Financial Freedom
  • What’s Up With OLD NAVY’s Jeans for Girls?
  • “First they came for the musicians … “
  • Emerson Elementary Fund Raisers — Help Some Great Kids!
  • How I Thickened My Hair and Advanced My Hairline with a Simple Massage Technique (and no Drugs)
  • Momu Mobile Studio Setup (MOMU-MSS): Making Electronic Music on the Road
  • Pre-Order Contest for Momu – The Mission
  • Investing Mistakes I Have Made
  • Making Good Habits Easier — What Is Most Effective?
  • OUSD Teacher Contract Negotiations (and Cronyism at the Top?)
  • Getting from Should to Must
  • Living On One Dollar
  • Improve Your Human Operating System — Consciously Reorder Your Values
  • The KonMari Method is Changing My Life
  • A Thank You to Readers, and What’s To Come in 2015
  • Losing Weight in the United States is an Act of Rebellion
  • 11 Ways to Succeed as a Freelancer
  • Changing Habits — 5 Specific Proven Techniques
  • Family Values — A Different Take
  • How To Trigger Super-Momentum
  • How To Calibrate Goals and Explore Obstacles to Increase Motivation
  • Another Reason to Send Your Child to a Less Affluent School
  • DNAFit Review
  • Improving Gum Health — Commit to a System
  • No Rest Days (Until I Crashed)
  • Back to School — Getting Bedtime Back on Track
  • How to Increase Your Daily Word Count by 75%
  • Happy Wednesday!
  • Habit Bending — Manipulate the Trigger and the Reward
  • Corporations Have Glass Jaws
  • Radical Responsibility and the Creative Process
  • How Meat-Eaters Should Relate to Vegans
  • Motivation Force Multipliers (3 Ways to Sustain and Expand Energy)
  • Why Is It Important to Define Your Life Purpose?
  • Why Dungeons & Dragons?
  • Your Computer is a Gateway to Other People’s Agendas
  • To Protect Your Heart, You Need to Bleed
  • Slomo
  • Riders on the Storm
  • My Experience with WordAds
  • “Follow Your Dream” Is Making Bankers Rich
  • Intermittent Fasting Update
  • Mental Health System Rant, and What Can Be Done Better (a Pipe Dream)
  • Daily Writing — Track Your Progress!
  • Stubborn and Clever Beats Most Problems
  • Facebook’s Not For Feelings
  • Is “Wealth Addiction” an Illness?
  • Misogynistic “Manblogs”, and Feminism
  • Goals Should Provide (Not Require) Motivation
  • A Revolution Is When Fringe Thinking Becomes Common Sense
  • The Pursuit of Happiness Is Meaningless Without the Pursuit of Justice
  • Environmental Regulation = Clear Skies (Thank You Clean Air Act)
  • Goals Are For Soccer? (Reevaluating Goals vs. Systems)
  • You Are Responsible For Your Own Brain Chemistry
  • Why I’m Sending My Child to an Underperforming Public School
  • Album Giveaway – From There To Here Volume 1
  • Color Me Crazy – Artificial (Coal Tar) Dyes and Your Child's Mental Health
  • Silk Road Dreamer — What Would a Less Coercive State Look Like?
  • Follow-up to "Watch and Wait" Approach to Two Small Cavities
  • Is Grandiosity a Prerequisite for Greatness?
  • Rock Bottom May Be Too Late — Do Something!
  • One Goal To Rule Them All
  • 40 Days Without Booze
  • New House Music Release With Kevin Knapp, and a Personal Update
  • Adventurecation! (6 principles)
  • Coffee Infographic
  • Hydras at the Helm
  • Keeping a Daily Writing Log
  • A Fourth Branch of Government, Unelected and Unregulated
  • Limited time offer — free download of Kleidosty's ambient album "Edifice of Artifice"
  • Why Breaks Are a Bad Idea
  • Metablog: New Menus
  • Preview of "Hydras At The Helm"
  • Jondi & Spesh "Church"
  • Writing Habits and Start-Stop Ritual (boost efficiency by 50%)
  • The Learning Tax (pay it, instead of working around your ignorance and weaknesses)
  • Like Boston, Four Dead
  • Why I Am Taking a "Watch and Wait" Approach re: Two Small Cavities
  • Subjective Benefits of Meditation, and a Rant Against Gurus
  • Sci-Fi Level Medical Advances, Part II (grow new teeth, cure baldness, take a vaccine to prevent heart attacks)
  • Steve Pavlina Doesn't Get Income Inequality
  • New Jondi & Spesh Release — Cycle Three
  • Why Money Is Bad For Art
  • A Nation's Debts (beyond the fiscal)
  • How Do You Prevent Heart Disease? (vitamin D might not help, but there’s plenty you can do)
  • Career Sucker Bets
  • How To Stay Relevant as an Artist (What to Do When They Try to Put You in the Cupboard)
  • How To Get a Good Night’s Sleep (7 suggestions, and a map)
  • End of the World(View), and a New Conservatism
  • How To Complete Difficult Tasks
  • Loöq Records End-of-Year Compilation, and Contest
  • When To Give Up and When to Double Down
  • How to Discover Your Life Purpose, Set a Primary Goal, and Stay On Track
  • A New Approach to Goal Setting (Introduction, and Reservations)
  • Vitamin D Revisited
  • Rehabilitating "Progress" and Envisioning "Messy Utopias"
  • Steven Pinker — Violence Is Down (But What About Oakland?)
  • Brain Renewal Protocol
  • If You Want Something More …
  • Dan's Plan Total Health Infographic
  • New Music Videos from Momu, Grimes
  • The Natural End of Capitalism
  • Porter Robinson
  • Momu VHP (Very Helpful People) List
  • Quality of Consciousness
  • My Best Work, for Free (Momu – Momentum giveaway)
  • Hopsin meets Charles Murray
  • Getting To Know Yourself, Finally (Practices for Active Self Knowledge)
  • Advice For Broke Young People
  • Music for Space Migration
  • Pinker on Group Selection
  • A Low-Willpower Approach To Fat Loss (5 Physiological Triggers)
  • Debut Momu Album for Free Download
  • Your Mind is Being Controlled by Alien Invaders
  • What's Holding Us Back as a Species? (Part II – Unpacking Assumptions)
  • The Rise of Ecotopia
  • What’s Holding Us Back, As a Species? (Part I – Fight for the Future)
  • Asthma Protocol
  • A Personal Request
  • Sci-Fi Level Medical Advances, Part I
  • Results and Impressions of 3-Year "Life Vision" Planning Experiment
  • Working From Home – Six Ways To Bring Up Your Game
  • Tap Your Potential by Going Deeper Into Your Comfort Zone
  • What Your Doctor Isn’t Thinking About (Dragging Medical Professionals Into the Modern Era)
  • Deep Focus in Consciousness — Keeping the Big Picture and the Details in Focus, Simultaneously
  • Disruptive Distribution – a Shareable.net Interview with Michel Bauwens and Neal Gorenflo
  • Death Will Eat Itself (The Enormous Benefits of Autophagy, or Why You Should Stop Eating Once in Awhile)
  • How To Get a 1000% Return on Your Investment
  • Watching Open Source Destroy Capitalism
  • Paleo vs. Vegan, a Battle of Straw Men
  • Letting Your Motivation Find You
  • Engineering Success vs. Attracting Success
  • Pivot Points — When You're Done Being Broken
  • How To Prioritize by Getting Your Heart and Mind in Synch
  • Overstimulation and Desensitization — How Civilization Affects Your Brain
  • 5 Skills You Need To Thrive In Modernity (That Nobody Bothered To Teach You)
  • What Is "Self-Branding" Anyway?
  • The Main Effect of Occupy Wall Street Has Already Happened
  • Cultural Clawbacks — How We Regain Quality of Life After Technological "Improvements"
  • How To Avoid Fascism and Restore Growth in the United States
  • Protect Your External Brain
  • The #1 Most Important (Inexpensive, Yet Terrifying) Thing You Can Do For Your Health Today
  • Penelope Trunk Makes Me Think Hard About What I’m Doing and Why
  • Reaction to Tim Ferriss’s Talk on Accelerated Learning (and Thoughts on his Rapid Rise to Fame)
  • Modulating Testosterone Levels (for Men)
  • B-Vitamins, Mood, and Methylation — It’s Complicated
  • Ambient Music I'm Madly In Love With
  • My 11-day "30-day experiment" of Giving Up Coffee
  • Three Levels of Using Your Brain to Improve Your Life, and World
  • Four Simple Ways to Increase Growth Hormone (Burn Fat, Build Muscle)
  • Why (as an Atheist) I Pray
  • Self-Quantification — Beyond Narcissism
  • Pour Gasoline On Your Life Spark — Part II
  • Pour Gasoline On Your Life Spark — Part I
  • How To Avoid Parent Rage
  • The Emotional Force Multiplier
  • Are You Excluding Yourself From Top-Tier Success in Your Field? Why Exactly?
  • Force Multipliers In Life
  • 3 Idiotic Nutrition Myths That Won’t Die
  • Beauty Is a Vibe (Ratios, Frequencies, Aesthetics, and Smell)
  • Creative Output — Setting an Effective Quota
  • How to See Magnetic Fields — Quantum Entanglement in Biological Systems
  • Easier Life Maxims
  • All Your Guts Are Belong To Us (What's Your Enterotype?)
  • How To Spin It (Turn All Luck Into Good Luck)
  • Sick (Thoughts on Various Cold and Flu Remedies)
  • How It Might Go Down (A Global Population Scenario)
  • Michio Kaku Should Stick to Physics (Evolution, Birth Control, and Mate Selection)
  • A Multi-Modal Approach To Solving Extremely Difficult Problems, Part III (Massively Iterative Failure)
  • I Could Never Have Predicted This (100th release on Loöq)
  • The Expensive Cheese Test (When The Happiness Curve Stops Rising)
  • Why Do Record Labels Still Exist? (Horse Poop and Easy Street)
  • To Bean Or Not To Bean, That Is The Question (Legumes, Lectins, and Human Health)
  • How To Accumulate (Non-Coercive) Power, Part III
  • Great Health Posts from Berkhan, Sisson
  • How To Accumulate (Non-Coercive) Power, Part II
  • How to Accumulate (Non-Coercive) Power, Part I
  • The Four Types of Power
  • How and Why to Balance Fat-Soluble Vitamins
  • The Game-Changing Algorithm Nobody Is Looking For (Part III — The Objects)
  • Distillation — Figuring Out The One Thing That Matters
  • 2010 Blog Recap, and Why I Blog
  • Why We Should Seek to be Uncomfortable
  • Three Counterintuitive Ways to Reduce Your Risk of Heart Disease (and Osteoporosis, While You’re at It)
  • Creating a Personal Economic Plan
  • What's Your Personal Economic Plan?
  • A Multi-Modal Approach to Solving Extremely Difficult Problems — Part II
  • A Multi-Modal Approach to Solving Extremely Difficult Problems — Part I
  • Dealing With Cybernetic Discombobulation
  • Willpower as a Commodity, Part III (Thought Vaccines)
  • The Story of "The Dive"
  • What It Feels Like to Regain Your Insulin Sensitivity
  • Manufactured Stress — How We Sabotage Our Own Quality of Consciousness
  • Loöq Records Behind-the-Scenes Update #1
  • What Would a Restorative Economy Look Like?
  • Minecraft — It's in Your Head
  • The Importance of Like
  • Global To Do List (Next 1000 Years)
  • Global To Do List (Next 100 Years)
  • Global To Do List (Next Ten Years)
  • Reverse Hack Video Game Psychology to Increase Real Life Motivation (and Why We Play Video Games Instead of Living Life)
  • On Video Games, Motivation, and The Psychedelic Realization
  • Overcoming Our Cognitive Bias Towards Excessive Caution Using the 3rd Person View
  • Strategies for Multi-Class Characters
  • Business Advice for (Young) Artists
  • Two New Essays by Paul Graham
  • Working Abroad Experiment Wrap-Up Part II — Financial Results
  • How I Cured My Asthma With One Simple Lifestyle Change
  • Angles of Estrangement
  • 30-Day Luck Experiment — RESULTS
  • Working Abroad Experiment Wrap-up, Part I — What We Did Right and What We Did Wrong
  • The Singularity Already Happened – Part II
  • Working Abroad Adventure: Weeks 3 and 4
  • The Singularity Already Happened – Part I
  • Radical Work Autonomy In Marriage
  • Jaguar Rescue Center (with baby sloth videos)
  • What is Metaprogramming?
  • Working Abroad Adventure: Week Two-And-A-Half
  • 30 Day Experiment – Be More Lucky
  • Working Abroad Adventure: Week 2
  • Working Abroad Adventure: Week 1
  • Exposing Yourself to Positive Black Swans
  • Low-Hanging Fruit Part III (Quality of Life)
  • The Paradox of Entitlement
  • The Game-Changing Algorithm Nobody Is Looking For (Part II — The Traps)
  • The Game-Changing Algorithm Nobody Is Looking For (Part I — The Question)
  • Pick the Low-Hanging Fruit, Part II (Health) — continued
  • Pick the Low Hanging Fruit, Part II (Health)
  • Pick the Low-Hanging Fruit, Part I (Charity)
  • The All-Or-Nothing Reflex
  • A Meta-analysis of Kooky Diets, Part III — PALEO!
  • Sleep Experiment – A Month With No Artificial Light
  • The Inefficacy of Using Physical Objects as Reminder Flags
  • The Unlasting Benefits of Practically Everything
  • A Meta-analysis of Kooky Diets, Part II
  • A Meta-analysis of Kooky Diets, Part I
  • iHaters
  • The Tyranny of Stuff
  • Eating Animals, Getting Eaten by Animals
  • The Joys of Throwing Out Long-term Plans and Lowering Quotas
  • Willpower as a Commodity, Part II (counterintuitive sleep tips)
  • Willpower as a Commodity, Part I
  • The Reward Is The Job – Do You Want The Reward?
  • Semicolon Party
  • The Amy G. Method
  • The Writing Habit – Eleven Things I've Learned This Year

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