Tagged: Philosophy
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The Labor Theory of Knowledge
There's a belief I keep running into, usually from people who are proud of how hard they worked to learn something. They say you can't really know a field unless you've struggled through it yourself.…
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The End of Best Practices: How AI Forces Us to Finally Be Creative
I've gotten some reactions from people who have sort of “midwit” interpreted some of my past writing as anti-AI, but that is completely wrong and I love using AI and I think it’s great.
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Moana is a story about today
The island gives us what we need. And no one leaves.
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The Myth of STEM and the "Hard" Sciences
People assume that STEM fields are somehow more valuable or serious because they are "reality-based," while the humanities are merely matters of opinion.
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The "freedom of speech isn't freedom from consequences" fallacy
The "freedom of speech isn’t freedom from consequences" line has become one of the more common online canned responses in debate. It's a conversation-ender designed to sound like common sense. But it's actually a rhetorical…
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The culture of progress
For 99% of human history, our default culture has been static. Most people never saw any real improvements in their lives. And if nothing can improve, why even try?
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Dunning-Kruger But for Smart People
Smart people may be dumber than dumb people, because they have access to more ways to fool themselves and overestimate their understanding.
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Cultural problems preventing progress
One thing these beliefs have in common is to the person who holds them, it really feels like they are doing something positive. In actuality the beliefs are self-defeating and the according behaviors stifle progress…
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Big Progress
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Value your time. Trash belongs in landfills.
With a lot of Amazon returns, it’s a pointless waste of time to send the thing back to Amazon and you should throw it away instead.
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What is Woke? Definition and Characteristics of Woke People
I don't mean this post to be critical so much as descriptive. A lot of times when people say something is "woke" they are trying to describe it, not necessarily be pejorative. So I figured…
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Democracy exists to correct errors, not build consensus
People often think of democracy as a sort of "majority rule" system, where everyone gets to vote on leaders and laws and the result is that the largest number of people are happy.
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Crushing the Myth of Late-Stage Capitalism
Capitalism is the only economic system that includes reliable, built-in incentives to solve problems by organically removing bad ideas, products, and companies, and replacing them with better ones in a reasonable time frame, without violence.
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The word ”impact” doesn’t have any impact at all
The growing use of the word "impact" to speak passively is weakening the English language.
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Identity Debt: The Future Cost of Being You
They say you can be anything you want to be, but they never mention the cost of maintenance.
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Principles and concepts list
1. Writing out my thoughts helps me find errors in my thinking. 2. Stating my principles publicly helps me stay accountable.
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What is Russell Conjugation?
Russell Conjugation is when someone chooses different words to describe something, depending on how favorable they want to be to the thing they are describing.
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How to Be Wise About Working From Home
I work from home every day as an SEO consultant, and I've got a few years of work-from-home experience that I think would be useful to share.
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39 Ways Companies Stack the Deck Against You in Job Interviews
Updated September 2020.
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Time Management, or How to Control Your Destiny by Ignoring Slack (Sometimes)
I used to think time management was about designing the perfect schedule. It seemed like if I crack my own code and discover the optimal time to complete tasks throughout the day, I could tailor…
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Get Something Up
For anyone considering a new idea, the best piece of advice I have is this: get something up.
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Memento Mori
We're all going to die. “Hoo boy. That’s a morbid thought,” you’re thinking. And you’re technically correct…but here’s why it’s actually the most positive thought you’re going to have all day: