Category: Popular Posts
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Summary of The Education of Millionaires: It’s Not What You Think and It’s Not Too Late
The Formal Education Myth There is almost no relationship between academic excellence and success in your life and career. Insofar as it was ever true that the roadmap to success was to work hard in school, get a good entry-level job, and work your way up through middle management, it isn’t anymore. You need credentials…
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Five Questions that Let You Watch What’s Going on in People’s Heads
A while back, when I was making Anki decks of the life concepts that I found most important, I wrote these two sentences: “Communication is authentic when what we express externally corresponds to what’s going on internally.” “Humans crave authentic communication.” If you’re anything like me, you spend a big chunk of your waking hours…
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Rationalist Conversation Patterns
A few months ago a conversation I had with someone at one of the NYC Rationality meetups prompted me to write an email on the subject of rationalist conversational norms. I kept telling myself I’d distill my points from the email into a more coherent summary, and I’ve haven’t, so instead I’m posting it pretty…
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How to read NVC
Nonviolent Communication is one of my favorite books. I recommend it to pretty much everyone I know who hasn’t already read it, and I’ve found myself repeating (and I hope refining) roughly the same disclaimer/explanation about how to approach the book, largely derived from the questions people keep asking me about it. So, to avoid…
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Sticky claims and surprise meters
I’ve been rereading the early posts of Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions, and will now, as an exercise for myself, try summarize my best understanding of the relevant concepts and how I relate to them using my own jargon: I will describe two natural clusters of mental representations “sticky claims” and “surprise meters” and their respective…