Welcome to my blog.
I share notes, essays, and lists of my favorite things here.
It will become more personal over time, but it’s currently a collection of interesting ideas or philosophies I wanted to explain to friends that are too long to be contained in a message.
A quick tldr of each:
- Writing
- Seeking Extremistan: it’s optimal to actively seek opportunities where maximal positive prediction error is possible. But how can we optimize for unexpected outcomes?
- Crushed by a deterministic treadmill: what factors increase the long term happiness of a population?
- Status Delocalization: the social effects of income at its tail.
- A Meritocrat’s Manifesto: a rant in support of meritocracy.
- For Autodidactism: my rationale behind not attending university (from an admittedly overly-monetary perspective).
- Curations
- Bookmarks: my favourite bits of the internet.
- Favourite Self-help: a list of insightful tweets, blogs, and other writing that’s helped my personal growth and formed my worldview.
- Notes
- Possessions and the Extended Self: a seminal paper on behavioural psychology: how do individuals define their identities and express themselves through identity?
- Stutz: a documentary on Jonah Hill and his therapist, as an extended conversation on philosophy and mental models on life.