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  • 10 Rules for dealing with the police deck

    Getting clear about what why legal rights are in police encounters had been in the back as something I wanted to do someday for years. I finally did it! I used the information from Flex Your Rights to make this deck. They do a good job of explaining what the official rules are, which is most…

  • How to Talk to Kids deck

    I’ve been living with Tovar, my favorite five-year-old, for a little over a year now. I’ve always liked kids a lot, so when I moved in I knew my plan was to interact with him a bunch, and I wanted it to go as well as possible. I didn’t have much experience handling situations where…

  • Nonviolent Communication deck

    Nonviolent Communication has a lot of ridiculously useful communication advice. Of course, the hardest time to remember communication advice is in the middle of a conflict. Eventually, after getting frustrated with myself for not being able to remember how to do what the book said in the moment, I got an idea! If the problem…

  • PC laws of life

    One of my favorite heuristics for life is: act more like a PC, less like an NPC. I was brainstorming with a friend of mine about things to remember to act more like a PC, and there’s what we came up with:  -don’t do the same thing over and over again -when you see something you don’t…

  • Less Wrong Sequences as Tab-delimited Text File

    lesswrongcards.txt Download this file Now with Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions and A Human’s Guide to Words.