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Incentive Infrastructure

A new idea machine Humanity needs to incentivize better incentives. We need incentive infrastructure to beat Moloch. We still live in a society with poor outcomes. We spend time, money, and energy on nostrums—ideas that promise to solve problems but have no real impact. Why? Because we fix surface-level

College

Roote's vision is to help the next billion young people live up to their potential. This means I've worked with hundreds of ambitious high schoolers, many of whom are anxious to get into a great college. This post compiles my top tips for college. I. The

Roote's Vision

The mission of the Roote Fellowship is to help the next billion young people live up to their potential. I. Me This mission starts with my own story—as a young person who wasn't living up to his potential. Growing up, I was a moderately precocious kid. Sharp

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What should I do here, with this human?

Almost everything in life must be done with others. If you learn to relate well to others, you increase your professional leverage and the emotional health of your relationships. I. Understanding Others The first step to relating well to others is understanding them. The first step to understanding others is

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How To Build Self-Awareness

One of the most powerful ways to build agency is to have "almost too much self-belief." But this can go badly quickly: look at how SBF and Elizabeth Holmes built reality distortion fields around themselves, defrauded everyone, and ended up in jail. Some reality distortion is good—we

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Sparking Your Success Spiral

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel. — Socrates Compounding is everything. Compound interest dominates financial markets, compounding network effects dominate business, and compounding yourself dominates all other self-work you can do. So how do you compound yourself? We know what compounding looks like—an

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Tools For Learning

1. First, remind yourself that the goal is not to simply to consume, but to contribute back to society. Build, write, teach, help others. That's why you learn in the first place. 2. Use Anki. Here's why. Here's how. 3. Join Twitter. Use these

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My Favorite Twitter Communities

Tech * Crypto * Cryptography * Machine Learning * YC * NoCode * Indie Hackers * Product Management Finance * Venture Capital * FinTwit Open Tech * Open Data & Open Government * Sharing Economy * Open Science Social Sciences * History * Anthropology * Sociology * Philosophy * Economics * Libertarianism * Behavioral Economics * History of Science Sciences * Mathematics * Physics * Nueroscience Applied Sciences * Climate Science * Synthet

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9 Tips to Network IRL

Going to dinners, meetups, and conferences is one of the best ways to increase your surface area of serendipity. The most important step of in-person networking is choosing the right niche for you. If you're into synthetic biology, go to SynBioBeta. If you're into metascience, go

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Stamina

Some examples of people with high stamina. Inspired by /fast. * Beyoncé: As a child: "When some of us wanted to go to the movies, when we did have our off time, she was in the studio sitting there by herself writing a record. I’ll never forget, were at

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How To Find Your Path

1. Stop Comparing Yourself Against Old Models You might be unconsciously following the path of your parents like a doctor or lawyer. Don't. Optimize for rate-of-learning [https://rooteco.notion.site/What-Roote-Hires-For-f21facf226e248e6af61551ef182c933] and consciously reject the paths given to you. Patrick Collison gives this advice [https://patrickcollison.com/advice]

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How To Anki

I've previously written a piece on Why [https://www.rhyslindmark.com/anki/] You Should Use Anki. [https://www.rhyslindmark.com/anki/] This piece is how. 1. Understand your why. Why do you want to remember anything? For me, it was reading lots of books but forgetting them. What&

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Information

I'm writing a book on What Information Wants [https://www.roote.co/what-information-wants]. But nailing down a definition of information is hard. What is information? Let's look at the Wikipedia definition. That should be helpful, right? (Right?!?) > 1. Information can be thought of as the

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How To Beat Procrastination

For the first 30 years of my life, I coasted and procrastinated often. I am pretty ashamed of it. 😔 In the last few months, I've beaten procrastination. I'm proud of this! ❤️ Here's how I did it. I hope it helps you. 1. Procrastination Is

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How To Write Well

In summary: * Write for a specific reader. * Write concisely. * When editing, look to cut. * Write in chunks. * Have fun with it. * Leverage the computer with tools like Grammarly, hotkeys, and ergonomic keyboards. 1. Alex Danco's 5 Writing Tips Write in parallel tracks using "meanwhile". Meanwhile establishes

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Why You Should Use Anki

If you're a knowledge worker doing Tyler Cowen calls an intellectual athlete training [https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/07/learn-like-an-athlete-knowledge-workers-should-train.html] , you should use Anki or some other form of spaced repetition. See the responses to Michael Nielsen's tweet here for all the other great folks

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FTX Future Fund and Longtermism

Roote [https://www.roote.co/] is writing a grant application for FTX Future Fund's [https://ftxfuturefund.org/] first grant round. (You should too! Apply by March 21 [https://ftxfuturefund.org/apply/].) As part of that, I wanted to research how important FTX Future Fund is for the longtermist

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Stripe Email Transparency

As we build Roote [https://www.roote.co/], I'm trying to use best practices from the best startups. One easy heuristic is What Would Stripe Do? [https://koolaidfactory.com/] The one I'm most interested in right now is email transparency. * Here's their blog about

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15 Learnings From an Extremely Online War

The internet's impact on Russia's invasion of Ukraine Here are 15 things I’ve learned from Russia-Ukraine as the first Extremely Online War. I. Web3 1. Crypto Funds The Meme Of The Moment 2. Not So Quiet on The Deplatforming Front II. Web2 3. What Social

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Web3 Starter Guide

Start With: * The Five Camps of Crypto [https://medium.com/@caseycaruso/the-five-camps-of-crypto-1aa8695b76bc ] Then to Explore More: * Web3 & Society [https://www.roote.co/web3-society] * Cypherpunk Reading List [https://www.zfnd.org/blog/cypherpunk-privacy-reading-list/] * a16z’s CryptoCanon [https://a16z.com/2018/02/10/crypto-readings-resources/] * The Electric Capital Developer Report [https://www.

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Rewriting Genes Before DNA

I am currently writing a book titled What Information Wants [https://www.roote.co/what-information-wants]. It looks at how information flows have changed over history. It starts by looking at the past: how the big bang led to planet earth, how genetic DNA led to the tree of life, and

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The Cube

There are lots of self-help phrases out there. Here's a simple example from our friend Kim Jong Un: Live, laugh, love. Three steps. Got it! Thanks Kimmy. ❤ Live, Laugh, Love (LLL) may look like a simple, meaningless meme. But there's something about it that "fits&

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CryptoBoomer's Guide To DeFi 2.0

> Web3 from 2017 to 2021 I saw this tweet from my friend Jill the other day: > I am going to have to spend time understanding Olympus now aren't I — Jill Gunter (@jillrgunter) October 11, 2021 [https://twitter.com/jillrgunter/status/1447693709521440773?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] I

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Native Spaced Repetition

The medium is the message. Right now, the internet medium enables short-term viral memes as a message, but not much else. Think about TikTok. Every day, users spend an hour in the app, scrolling through the FYP. But if you ask me what I watched last week on TikTok, I

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More Startups Should Use Credit Unions

Update: Lol, we ended up switching from a Credit Union to Mercury. I just finished signing up for a bank account for my nonprofit, Roote [https://www.roote.co/], and wanted to share my thought process. In the end I chose to use my local credit union, Self-Help Credit Union