I believe, and would like to convince more people, that it’s more profitable to help people make better decisions, than to take advantage of how they mis-make decisions.

Some ideas about how to land a niche dream-job.

If you knew you could be happier and make better decisions by blinding yourself, would you do it? Ok, not complete blindness, but just to those factors you decided in advance were irrelevant.

And prohibiting bad behavior just drives it underground.

The future will be stranger than I expect it to be. So how can I experience possible versions of the future before they happen?

I beat the benchmark massively last week. I’ve started swimming again, which has meant regaining ground previously owned. This past week I set recent records in both (speed and distance), which was a huge improvement for me. By Christoffer Engström Let’s be clear: there is no chance I could beat Michael Phelps even if he had one arm tied behind his back. There are people in my pool who are faster than me.

A framework for when past performance is useful, vs when it's not.

Progressive taxes have some really nice second-order effects.

When a statement makes us feel good, we’re far less critical of it. We want it to be true, and we pay attention to evidence that confirms it, and discount evidence that rejects it.

Yeah, kind of.