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What is tech debt?

I fixed my blog, hooray!

(Epistemic status: not particularly supported by science, works on my machine, your results may vary.)

Ok, so I’ve been trying to explore vegan options, in hopes that I might be able to avoid harming animals while being healthy and still enjoying comfort foods similar to those that I grew up with.

What skills does your team need to exhibit in order to have a good chance of creating something important?

For my birthday party someone asked me what my goals were for the coming year.

I’m in Nairobi, Kenya, sitting in our lawyer’s office.

I’ve spent a week with some friends that I haven’t seen in a while.

I was reading “Young Money” by Kevin Roose.

I got a Velleman K8200 3D printer kit for Christmas, and I just got it working today.

GiveWell, the independent effective-altruist charity evaluator, just announced a new set of charity ratings.

I remember being in the car with my family (I was about 12, maybe 15?)

I’ve never been able to remember to update a to-do list consistently.

I’ve been thinking more about conscientiousness recently.

It’s not uncommon that we need to decide whether to spend some money to save some time.

Why bother to hack one’s sleep?

Someone asked me what my best conscious self-improvement decisions have been.

Over the last several years, a number of organizations have popped up: GiveWell, 80,000 Hours, The Life You Can Save, Giving What We Can, Centre for Effective Altruism, Future of Humanity Institute, Center for Applied Rationality, Leverage Research, and p…

I’ve gotten back into doing regular meditation.

I’ve found myself choosing more expensive options on a bunch of things lately.

Tea is fairly good for you, and it provides you with that nice contemplative feeling of having a cup of something warm to drink while you work.

Back in 2010 I took a beer journey to Belgium with two friends, and wrote a blog about it.

I tried polyphasic sleep back in 2006.

I read How to Beat Procrastination when it was written, and have applied some of it to my own life.

It’s been about six months since the end of Rationality Mega-Camp.

I’m working on a project which used the Facebook-maintained “python-sdk” project, previously found at https://github.com/facebook/python-sdk.

Since Rationality Camp this past summer, I have been interested in “optimal philanthropy”: figuring out the best ways to do good in the world, which generally means saving lives.

Well, it went off pretty damn well: we brewed 60 gallons of beer last weekend.

It’s been a long time since I’ve brewed beer!

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One of the defining philosophies of the local Singularity Institute community here is “Munchkining at life”.

Here’s a metaphor we’ve been using a lot at Rationality Boot Camp: People’s behavior is controlled by an elephant and a human rider – the rider represents your rational, cognitive, high-level thought processes, whereas the elephant represents your emotion…

Apparently I’ve fallen behind slightly on my weekly update schedule.

I am learning how to memorize things!

I should point out that John Faben is also writing about Rationality Boot Camp.

There are a lot of people in our little house!

Yesterday for fun we did parkour lessons at “Athletic Playground,” an indoor studio which has parkour, aerials and a bunch of other interesting-looking classes.

This session was very long and split into several parts.

Yesterday we did Rejection Therapy!

First session today was led by Jasen.

We haven’t done any exercises yet; today was spent socializing.