How to be (temporarily) smarter
You’re unlikely to see me joining the 4am club; I’d rather be in the nice cosy bed club and still fast asleep. Still, I have achieved things, not despite my lack of industriousness but perhaps because of it.
Tag: personal
Short thoughts on facilitating virtual conversation salons
(inspired by Dipika Kohli and her conversation salons!) I like spaces where interesting conversations happen. Unfortunately, sometimes interesting conversations are not to be had within a sensible distance of the house. Or they are, but the people I want to converse with don’t live within sensible distance of my house, they live a plane ride […]
Exploring failure modes of vibe coding
Why can’t I get Codex to delete my repo?
What Are You Waiting For?
Making microzines.
The ancestor test
Once again I have been reading Robin Hanson on cultural adaptation and cultural drift. I am sympathetic to futarchy, and he invented it. I am less sympathetic to many of his proposed solutions to fix cultural drift. In a blog post from earlier this month, Hanson puts forward the idea of the “ancestor test” – […]
The best productivity app is the one you actually use
The best productivity app is the one you actually use Since I was a teenager, the number of productivity apps has just ballooned. You don’t need pen and paper anymore – you have zenware and Notion and Obsidian and etc etc etc. The world is drowning in productivity apps. Call me old-fashioned, but I am […]
4000 weeks
The average human lifespan is about 4000 weeks. When you put it that way, it’s a terrifyingly short amount of time.
No, I don’t want to join your AI-generated discussion
If you can’t be bothered to ask me questions, why should I answer them?
Goals for Living People
It’s not enough to have goals for living people. It’s time to think about what those goals are.
Adventures in getting old
This afternoon, my husband and I were talking about how things just seemed better back in 2008 to 2014, or at least less bad. Things made more sense. It seemed like we had positive visions for the future, or something. …and then I realised that we sounded like the 90s kids that I used to […]
