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If you want more stuff to read right now, my favorite articles are the essays on my homepage.
If you’ve already read those, or bounced because they’re too long, try these shorter ones:
Your room can be as bright as the outdoors and it might improve your mood and focus during the winter.
Probability, uncertainty, and markets explains why the concept of Knightian uncertainty might be more reasonable for a good Bayesian than it sounds.
The St. Petersburg “paradox”—if I offer to flip a coin until it comes up heads, doubling the amount that I pay you each time, should you be willing to pay me infinity dollars to play?
I apparently got 50% better at my job last month (also explains how)
You don’t need to work on hard problems, you’ve just been trained to by the incentive structure of academia.
Interface abusers: we seem to have given up making user interfaces discoverable.
If you like these and want more, check out the the archive (and category-specific archives for tech, altruism, and misc).