002 | Self-aware doorways & dog-space
Bit of a Tangent
English - July 02, 2019 19:54 - 1 hour - 76.3 MB - ★ - 1 ratingScience Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Jared and Gianluca compare notes on their favourite productivity strategies and mindfulness techniques. They also explore the rhetorical bias of wisdom and the rationalist interpretation of cached thoughts; before making ill-advised attempts at explaining the nebulous concepts of "Idea Space" and "Short Inferential Distances".
Shownotes:
‘Getting Things Done’ book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1633.Getting_Things_Done?from_search=true
‘Eat That Frog’ book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/95887.Eat_That_Frog_
Prediction Markets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prediction_market
Read more about becoming an expert predictor with the ‘Superforecasting’ book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23995360-superforecasting?ac=1&from_search=true
HighExistence website: https://highexistence.com/ and 30 day challenge: https://jimmanueljoseph.wordpress.com/2016/09/02/30-challenges-to-enlightenment-high-existence/
Book ‘Algorithms To Live By’ on using computer science to make decisions: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25666050-algorithms-to-live-by
LessWrong post on “Cached Thoughts”,. We also talk about ‘cached replies’ a bit later in the podcast: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/2MD3NMLBPCqPfnfre/cached-thoughts
The idea of ‘research debt’ and translating ideas: https://distill.pub/2017/research-debt/
Book ‘Elements of Eloquence’: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17415726-the-elements-of-eloquence
Book on habits and identity, ‘Atomic Habits’: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40121378-atomic-habits
LessWrong post on ‘Expecting Short Inferential Distances’: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HLqWn5LASfhhArZ7w/expecting-short-inferential-distances