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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

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

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

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

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

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

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]

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&

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

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

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

My Process for Finding Weird Music

My Process for Finding Weird Music

I love finding new music and I have an intentional process to do so. I'd love to share my process with you. Or just check out my Songs for Self playlist for the weird but good music I've found thus far. What Is My Goal? Before