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Tidy up so you can make a useful mess

1 minute | me

An under-appreciated benefit of habitually tidying up is that it gives you more confidence to make useful messes. A few examples...

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Context-Sensitivity and the Introvert Experience

5 minutes | Byrne Hobart

Consider the Big Five personality traits: Openness to experience, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism. Is the modern world increasingly being built by and for people who are low on extraversion and high on openness to experience?

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always bet on text

2 minutes | graydon2

Video, audio, virtual reality… all overrated, according to this brief argument. Why should you always bet on text?

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Can somebody volunteer to take notes?

8 minutes | Tanya Reilly

Useful reflections on when, why, and how to take notes in a meeting.

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The Land and Expand Strategy for Reading

7 minutes | Cedric Chin

When you want to learn about a new topic, don’t start with a textbook. First, aim to “land” on the topic by reading stories and everyday examples.

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Efficient Charity: Do Unto Others...

7 minutes | Scott Alexander

Not all charities are made equal. If you want to do good with your charitable giving, why not aim to do the most good per dollar?

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// top tweets

Divia Eden@diviacaroline

Executing pre-made decisions is a huge counter-balance against perfectionism, which is 👍👍. When running the dishwasher is a *project*, I load it carefully and I search hard for every last dish. When it’s a *habit* I don’t, and it’s better.

July 12th 2019

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Chris Beiser@ctbeiser

taking care of indoor air quality is probably the biggest high-return trick for living that I almost never see anyone posting about. I may be more sensitive than most, but I see immediately visible effects on my cognition, need to sleep, mood, and exercise capacity.

November 23rd 2019

16 Retweets156 Likes

Lionel Page@page_eco

Excellent: logic gates explained with liquid, the advanced version.

November 23rd 2019

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Until next week,

David

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