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Unstructured thoughts on various themes.

A pile is an unstructured set of articles, books, ideas, podcasts, quotes, and other things that match a particular interest of mine. They have more weight than a single link, but haven’t yet formed into well-defined beliefs or projects.

Antifragile

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The idea that things get stronger when they interact with chaos.

Artificial Intelligence

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What will this mean for us?

Behavior Change

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Is it possible? Why is it so difficult?

Being A Creator

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The challenge of making something new.

Being Alive

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What sparks life?

Cognitive Biases

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A cheat sheet to help you remember 200+ biases via 3 conundrums.

Creativity

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What does it take to be truly creative?

Critical Thinking

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Why is it so difficult to define the first principles of critical thinking?

Death

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Memento mori.

Dialogue

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The conversational nature of reality.

Drawing

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Just trying to acquire the raw basics of this craft.

Fuzzy

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Pieces go here when they don't quite fit anywhere else.

Game Theory

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What's the relationship between players, rules, and strategy?

Government

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How might we govern ourselves?

Health

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The conversational nature of our bodies and the universe.

Internal Mental Space

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Our mind's map of the terrain.

Mental Health

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How might we not become irrecoverably cynical?

Meta

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About this.

Mindfulness

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Is this it?

Motivation

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Why get out of bed?

Nature of reality

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What is real and how do we know?

Negative space

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The space that surrounds the stuff we directly care about.

Observation

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What are the rewards of careful observation?

Organizations

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The corpus of us.

Parenting

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Nobody told us this would be difficult.

Policy

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What are the rules of living with each other and how should we enforce it?

Product management

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How to build products people love.

Quality time

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Does anything else matter?

Rules to live by

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Of the self-determined and self-enforced variety.

Scientific method

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Observation, hypothesis, experiment, results, and repeat.

Self-reflection

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Who am I?

Self-tracking

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What makes sense to track?

Spirituality

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The mystery.

Strange Loops

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The glitches in our universe.

Systems thinking

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Everything connects.

Technology

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The gift of fire.

Vulnerability

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To be present. To be seen. To be hurt. Repeat.

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