Comparing Getting Things Done (GTD) Implementations in Evernote, Todoist, NirvanaHQ, FacileThings and more
When I started practicing GTD, the best implementation I found was in Evernote. I’ve used and refined it for years, until last year I finally decided it’s time to switch. Surely a better implementation must exist by now.
Inadequate Equilibria - Where and How Civilizations Get Stuck [messy book summary]
“If you want to outperform—if you want to do anything not usually done—then you’ll need to conceptually divide our civilization into areas of lower and greater competency. My view is that this is best done from a framework of incentives and the equilibria of those incentives […]”
The Pondered Life - Setting the Quest
It is a universal trait, I believe, to reflect and evaluate. We strive to do so in our jobs, in our schools, and at least once a year on holidays. But do we do it enough where it really counts? Do we examine the big, important things? It is my observation that most of us lose sight of the forest for the trees.
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality [book review]
AI researcher and decision theorist Eliezer Yudkowsky probably woke up one day and asked himself a single question: what would have happened in Harry Potter’s first year in Hogwarts, had he not been such an insufferable idiot?