I disagree with Cal about the anti-GTD, pro-timeblocking advice but this is gold.

I needed this advice because no matter how smug I am about not being on Reels or X or whatever, I do go through periods of spending way too much time chatting to bots. I never ever post slop from it but I paste or write my own ideas into it for cheerleading or validation or just comfort and it’s such an awful habit. Plus sometimes help with Python although usually it can’t help because Python is beyond helping.

Non-verbal, blurry thinking is faster and can search in a broader way, but it is more error-prone than verbal thought.

Non-verbal, blurry thinking is faster and can search in a broader way, but it is more error-prone than verbal thought.

Non-verbal, blurry thinking is faster and can search in a broader way, but it is more error-prone than verbal thought.

Brain studies show that language is not essential for the cognitive processes that underlie thought. This Scientific American article explores the concept of non-verbal thought, discussing evidence that cognition and complex reasoning can occur independently of language, challenging the idea that all thought requires words.

This comprehensive article from Farnam Street explains mental models, simplified explanations of how things work, across various disciplines (like physics, mathematics, and human nature) to help readers make better decisions and avoid common pitfalls.

Collection of thinking tools and frameworks to help you solve problems, make decisions and understand systems.

Collection of thinking tools and frameworks to help you solve problems, make decisions and understand systems.

The methods include tips for how to accommodate participants with diverse abilities to ensure that everyone feels included in a workshop setting no matter what they are capable of.

In other words: if you introduce the solution (in this case, a new kind of math) before introducing the kind of problems that it’s meant to solve, the solution is likely to come across as pointless and arbitrary. But if you first let students try to tackle these problems with the math they already understand, they’re likely to come away with a kind of intellectual “headache” – and, therefore, to better understand the purpose of the “aspirin” you’re trying to sell.

The man who wrote one of environmentalism’s most-cited essays was a racist, eugenicist, nativist and Islamaphobe—plus his argument was wrong

No matter what, though, I argue that “information retrieval” is—despite how LLMs are marketed—is one of the least interesting and reliable things you can do with them. It’s mostly interesting, as described above, a “common wisdom” sampler to examine the common narratives that show up repeatedly in the corpus.

An approach that promised to democratize design may have done the opposite.

Collection of thinking tools and frameworks to help you solve problems, make decisions and understand systems.