Jaakko Järviniemi

We pursue information to become more intelligent but what if the opposite is happening?

How to improve your life and the world, with a minimal chance you're accidentally producing more harm than good.

Contrarian rules for health, including diet & exercise. 25 principles of healthy living that you won't see in mainstream media.

Supernormal stimuli hijack our evolutionary instinct.

Optimism is a choice, even though pessimism seems to be the default.

Anti-consumerism saves you money.

Signaling is a shortcut.

A list of ideas that have had a profound impact on how I view the world and make decisions.

To find your meaning, invert conventional advice.

For the past 3 years, I’ve been collecting marketing tips for personal reference.

How to remove the bugs in your brain software.

Why exercise sucks.

Variation is what makes life worth living.

Things you can do once that will benefit you forever: foundational principles, foundational answers, foundational problems.

Constant pattern in life: First you add, then realize that addition wasn’t optimal, so then you’ll reduce.

Increase your default level of productivity.

Instead of trying to wow them with your writing, wow them with the idea.

At the heart of modern marketing and consumerism is a simple, though well-hidden principle: Create the problem, sell the solution.

A summary of Paul Graham’s 200+ essays.