life

Mar
31

How I interpret online apartment reviews

3 min read
Mar
30

Venerable voracious curiosity

2 min read
Dec
15

Long posts

1 min read
Dec
14

Knowledge hoarding: "I might need to know that someday"

1 min read
Dec
13

Challenging vs. threatening?

2 min read
Dec
08

Sounds I don't need to know, but want to

1 min read
Dec
03

My piece-by-piece scenes rarely work, but that's okay, and planning might help

4 min read
Dec
01

Bouncing off books

1 min read
Nov
28

Overly detailed summaries are worse than none

1 min read
Nov
09

Making desire paths means finding cheap ways of acting on velleities

3 min read
Nov
07

A feeling: I've solved this problem before, haven't I?

1 min read
Nov
05

Experiment idea: Not-a-letter to a friend

2 min read
Nov
04

Too many books

1 min read
Nov
03

Walking a dog on schedule vs. on-demand

1 min read
Oct
24

Hiatus until 11/03

1 min read
Oct
10

"Art is a support for life"

2 min read
Oct
09

Places to find the OBD-II scanner port

1 min read
Oct
08

Watch later

2 min read
Oct
07

The process of looking for a used car

3 min read
Sep
29

How to shuffle cards well when you never shuffle cards

4 min read
Sep
27

It is sometimes good to say obvious things

1 min read
Aug
14

If you always follow some advice, you'll never experience why (or whether) it's good advice

1 min read
Aug
12

The accommodater vs. the accommodated

1 min read
Jul
30

Failure modes of concrete vs. abstract goals

1 min read
Jul
29

What does it mean to "show up with cookies"?

1 min read
Jul
28

What to watch next, part 2/n

1 min read
Jul
27

To plan or not to plan what to watch next?

1 min read
Jul
20

Hours is a long time

1 min read
Jul
17

Background noise

1 min read
Jul
02

You have permission to be bad at things

1 min read
Jun
27

The worst part of planning is finding the will to start

1 min read
Jun
24

The benefit of "slacker monk mindset"

1 min read
Jun
22

"Don't get involved"

3 min read
Jun
09

Yuppie Psycho's delightful Mr. Swery

2 min read
Jun
08

Ghost stories come with a paranoid aftertaste

1 min read
May
20

There's an index now

1 min read
May
19

Does fixed-point futurism make sense?

1 min read
Apr
15

Bucket fill

1 min read
Apr
01

What's in a username?

4 min read
Mar
15

resisting impressiveness

1 min read
Mar
07

accomplishment

1 min read
Mar
03

Wind

1 min read
Feb
22

The desk

3 min read
Feb
21

Making writing hard

1 min read
Feb
19

Shitposting

1 min read
Feb
14

Getting feedback

1 min read
Feb
11

Suggestions vs. advice

1 min read
Feb
06

Take seriously but not authoritatively

1 min read
Jan
30

Too deep

1 min read
Jan
26

What if I were serious?

1 min read