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Some of the better stuff I've written.

2020

  1. Blogging

2019

  1. Ooh look, a book
  2. 43: All in & with the flow
  3. Pocket Biases
  4. Well that backfired
  5. $1/month early bird special ⛅️
  6. Oakland schools are struggling
  7. The Green New Deal is a 1-Pager for America
  8. Guidelines for Fruitful Dialogue
  9. History of my name
  10. The Beginning of a Fruitful Dialogue
  11. Can a friendly and diverse dialogue exist between liberals and conservatives on the internet?
  12. Announcing a new friendly and diverse community: Fruitful
  13. 30 fundamentals
  14. Equilibriums and Limits: a better way to look at most every political issue

2018

  1. History of my beliefs (so far)
  2. Parenting the Fortnite Addict
  3. quantum realism
  4. Your Life In Weeks
  5. Everone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too
  6. Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System
  7. optionality
  8. Should we be happy?
  9. 42: Dig deeper

2017

  1. A rational person's 1-minute guide to why rational thinking often fails to persuade people
  2. 41: Seek endarkenment
  3. Cognitive bias cheat sheet, simplified

2016

  1. Cognitive bias cheat sheet
  2. Weeknotes
  3. 40: Mind the loops
  4. Software vs. Humans

2015

  1. Systems Thinking For Kids
  2. 39: Make wiggle room
  3. The Element of Irreducible Rascality

2014

  1. Self-coaching experiment results
  2. Better than meditation
  3. Universe ↔ soloverse
  4. 3-lane product development
  5. 38 is great: cultivate quality time
  6. How I track my life
  7. The concept of a person
  8. Smarter than smart

2013

  1. Make better resolutions
  2. Make your own @horse_ebooks
  3. Managing my internet rage
  4. Live like a hydra
  5. What's your life change score?
  6. The death bed game
  7. Know Thy Umwelt
  8. 37: More kiloslogs
  9. Celebrate your next death day
  10. If I lived 100 times
  11. 1 metric kiloslog
  12. Three cognitive biases walk into a bar...
  13. Too simple, cheap, easy, obvious bias
  14. How to change yourself (v0.1)
  15. Are your habits tiny or huge?
  16. The game of life
  17. Our filters
  18. The long slog
  19. $1 for you (conclusion)
  20. Starter kit for a solar-powered self-replicating 3D printer that can make enough money to buy its own materials, pick them up, and print children when it feels ready.

2012

  1. Rabbit Rabbit Resolution Accountability Squad
  2. "Anything is possible."
  3. Codex Vitae
  4. A/B fit
  5. What I'm tracking now and why
  6. Zoomed out
  7. Behavior change is belief change
  8. Who you are vs who you want to be
  9. Look, look, look
  10. $1 for you
  11. The "I don't want to" habit
  12. Tweet fearlessly
  13. The half-plants diet
  14. A friendly safety reminder
  15. Why 'Just Do It' is bullshit
  16. Everything I (currently) know about starting and keeping habits in one long manifesto
  17. A duck bears no grudges
  18. 36: Talk it out

2011

  1. What I’ve learned taking photos every day at 8:36 p.m.
  2. 35: Love the struggle

2010

  1. 34: Cultivate the core

2009

  1. 33: Frugal to the max
  2. History of my self-tracking

2008

  1. 32: No problem

2007

  1. 31: Double down

2006

  1. 30: Higher highs and lower lows

2003

  1. Man Versus Himself

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  1. The World
  2. The Wheel of Fortune
  3. The Tower
  4. The Sun
  5. The Star
  6. The Moon
  7. The Magician
  8. The Lovers
  9. The High Priestess
  10. The Hermit
  11. The Heirophant
  12. The Hanging Man
  13. The Fool
  14. The Empress
  15. The Emporer
  16. The Devil
  17. The Chariot
  18. Temperance
  19. Strength
  20. Snake Bus
  21. Queen of Wands
  22. Queen of Swords
  23. Queen of Pentacles
  24. Queen of Cups
  25. Phoenix Bones
  26. Page of Wands
  27. Page of Swords
  28. Page of Pentacles
  29. Page of Cups
  30. Napping Cheetah
  31. Knight of Wands
  32. Knight of Swords
  33. Knight of Pentacles
  34. Knight Cups
  35. King of Wands
  36. King of Swords
  37. King of Pentacles
  38. King of Cups
  39. Justice
  40. Judgement
  41. Hero With 100 Arms
  42. Death
  43. Chaos Monkey
  44. Ace of Wands
  45. Ace of Swords
  46. Ace of Pentacles
  47. Ace of Cups
  48. 9 of Wands
  49. 9 of Swords
  50. 9 of Pentacles
  51. 9 of Cups
  52. 8 of Wands
  53. 8 of Swords
  54. 8 of Pentacles
  55. 8 of Cups
  56. 7 of Wands
  57. 7 of Swords
  58. 7 of Pentacles
  59. 7 of Cups
  60. 6 of Wands
  61. 6 of Swords
  62. 6 of Pentacles
  63. 6 of Cups
  64. 5 of Wands
  65. 5 of Swords
  66. 5 of Pentacles
  67. 5 of Cups
  68. 4 of Wands
  69. 4 of Swords
  70. 4 of Pentacles
  71. 4 of Cups
  72. 3 of Wands
  73. 3 of Swords
  74. 3 of Pentacles
  75. 3 of Cups
  76. 2 of Wands
  77. 2 of Swords
  78. 2 of Pentacles
  79. 2 of Cups
  80. 10 of Wands
  81. 10 of Swords
  82. 10 of Pentacles
  83. 10 of Cups
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