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I make a lot of webpages.

I use AI to write a little bit: I ask it for high level feedback on blog post drafts, make mechanical edits, and sometimes use it to brainstorm options for wording at a paragraph level.

Read this post on Substack.

Read this post on Substack.

Quick meta note: I’m writing my important blog posts on Substack.

Read this post on Substack.

Read this post on Substack.

I’ve been working on this for a couple weeks now: a summary of various theories of change across the animal movement.

I wrote a post about organizational culture!

Lauren Hoffman interviewed me about Workshop House and wrote this post about a community I’m working on building in DC.

We’re seeing AI features pop up in every product we use.

tl;dr: I recommend West Life unsweetened soymilk over other milks.

I cook most of my meals and am pretty frugal.

Narrative I decided this year to run my own Secular Solstice at my house.

Royal Caribbean has a new giant cruise ship, Icon of the Seas, which has a large selection of food options.

This post was inspired by a week of working from Ambitious Impact’s office in London, and chatting with several of the startup charities there.

You’ve started a project or company.

I posted a postmortem of a community I worked to help build, Clarendon, in Cambridge MA, over at Supernuclear.

I designed a puzzle for family for Christmas!

I sat down for a conversation with Alex Long.

I posted this on the Effective Altruism forum as part of the EA Strategy Fortnight.

I just got comprehensive blood test results and it seems my nutritional numbers are in decent shape (vitamin D, B12, etc) after being vegan for over a year, which is a good sign that I’m probably doing most things okay.

I looked at a few years’ worth of data for DC (where I live) to try to figure out how risky cycling is here.

Scenario: You’re working hard on an important seeming problem.

There’s wide critique on the effective altruism forums of a decision made by Centre for Effective Altruism to purchase a $20M estate in Oxford, Wytham Abbey.

Things that are an essential part of my annual Thanksgiving experience: smell of delights roasting in the oven all day absurd amounts of food on-point mashed potatoes, gravy, cranberry sauce, etc chaos of family members constantly bumping into each other…

So far it has been quite easy and practical for me to eat mostly plant-based food in my life.

I’ve been interested in eating less meat, and possibly becoming vegetarian or vegan, for 15+ years.

I am not normally a recipe blogger.

I came across this blog post, titled This Will Only Take 2 Hours.

In a house with two doors (a front door and a kitchen door), the kitchen door is usually the one that gets the most use.

I enjoy giving advice to companies and individuals who are trying to do big things that will be good for the world.

I’m designing co-housing/co-living communities.

For non-expert cyclists, I recommend steel road-ish bikes with wide tires.

Process Orientation There’s a certain type of workplace where the only thing that matters is that you, as an individual, produce results that are valuable to the company.

There was a recent discussion on Less Wrong about whether or not ambitious people should have kids.

Sometimes people speak to be understood.

Part of my series on product skills.

The Social Dilemma is a documentary about social media’s impact on society.

In the startup world, people often trot out the old adage that “ideas are a dime a dozen – success is all about execution.”

I’m late on this, I suppose, but late is better than never.

I only set my alarm clock when I need to get up earlier than usual.

I just redesigned my website.

[added 2023-01] I recently became more skeptical of CFAR after talking to more people who have done it.

(Epistemic status: try things!)

The current coronavirus epidemic is a test of rationality in a number of ways.

Elevator pitch: Bring enough light to simulate daylight into your home and office.

Keto Experiments I’ve done a few experiments with the ketogenic diet in the last few years, inspired by Tim Ferriss.

I built a small desktop computer!