misc

You should try contra dancing

misc • April 2026

Impact, agency, and taste

misc • April 2025

Advice for time management as a manager

misc • April 2025

Categories of leadership on technical teams

misc • July 2024

Trust as a bottleneck to growing teams quickly

misc • July 2024

How I build and run behavioral interviews

misc • February 2024

Some mistakes I made as a new manager

misc • April 2023

Leaving Wave, joining Anthropic

misc • February 2023

Why and how to write things on the Internet

misc • December 2022

Be less scared of overconfidence

misc • November 2022

What I’ve been doing instead of writing

misc • September 2021

My favorite essays of life advice

misc • December 2020

How to make video calls almost as good as face-to-face

misc • September 2020

Tools for keeping focused

misc • August 2020

Be impatient

misc • July 2020

What should we do about network-effect monopolies?

misc • July 2020

My weekly review habit

misc • June 2020

Wireless is a trap

misc • June 2020

College advice for people who are exactly like me

misc • April 2020

Stop your video calls from stuttering

misc • April 2020

Massachusetts should shut down immediately

misc • March 2020

Boston should begin aggressive coronavirus mitigation

misc • March 2020

The unreasonable effectiveness of one-on-ones

misc • December 2019

Grad school is worse for public health than STDs

misc • December 2019

The best RSS reader is Kindle4RSS

misc • January 2019

Zero-effort habits

misc • October 2018

Small company or big company?

misc • October 2018

Think real hard

misc • September 2018

The real problem isn’t privacy, it’s our dystopian hellscape of Skinner boxes

misc • June 2018

Is treating a cold with zinc still evidence-backed?

misc • March 2018

What to care about in a job

misc • February 2018

People seem very confused about 401(k) loans

misc • February 2018

The product

misc • October 2017

When simple econ models don’t work

misc • October 2017

Startup options are much better than they look

misc • June 2017

Surviving lots of travel

misc • June 2017

Reading lately

misc • January 2017

[administrivia] Site migration

misc • December 2016

I apparently got 50% better at my job last month

misc • October 2015

Blogger’s block

misc • May 2015

The costs of campus construction

misc • May 2015

Year-and-a-bit in review, 2014: where I’ve been

misc • May 2015

Butchering the web for fun and profit with µBlock

misc • May 2015

Links VII: baseball stars, birthday songs, and bloggers

misc • May 2015

Links VI: money, math and macro

misc • April 2015

My literature review process

misc • April 2015

Surviving an open-plan office

misc • April 2015

Why I left Harvard early

misc • April 2015

Two open-source music books

misc • March 2015

Links V: Art, Aristotle and American Fuzzy Lop

misc • March 2015

Probability, uncertainty, and markets

misc • March 2015

What happened to all the non-programmers?

misc • March 2015

Valuing intelligence

misc • February 2015

Spiders and starfish

misc • February 2015

Donation matching survey

misc • February 2015

North Korean game theory

misc • February 2015

Links IV

misc • December 2014

De-noising the inbox

misc • October 2014

Links III

misc • October 2014

Links II: Epistemology, &c.

misc • June 2014

CFAR, one year later

misc • June 2014

Updates

misc • May 2014

Document how you communicate

misc • April 2014

A bunch of links

misc • April 2014

Reading lately

misc • March 2014

Channel factors

misc • March 2014

General Miseducation

misc • January 2014

Email etiquette

misc • January 2014

On inclusivity in Less Wrong: a response to Scott Alexander

misc • January 2014

Income inequality and markets

misc • January 2014

Semester review

misc • January 2014

100 things I’m grateful for

misc • November 2013

Flanderization

misc • November 2013

Crocker’s revisited

misc • November 2013

I declare Crocker’s Rules today

misc • November 2013

OMG evil Chinese eugenics!!!

misc • November 2013

Don’t optimize multiple things at once

misc • October 2013

Networking can be actually useful

misc • October 2013

Actually doing things

misc • October 2013

Is X unethical?

misc • October 2013

Don’t have conversations on Facebook

misc • October 2013

Useful ideas in debate

misc • October 2013

Squashing blips

misc • September 2013

A short rant about contra dance etiquette

misc • September 2013

Things I’ve learned recently

misc • August 2013

How to give good gifts

misc • July 2013

CFAR workshop review

misc • July 2013

Moral arguments

misc • June 2013

Exploration and exploitation

misc • June 2013

How to have a productive argument

misc • May 2013

Doing things I’m terrible at

misc • May 2013

The is-ought problem

misc • April 2013

Second-order vanity

misc • April 2013

Dangers of being willing to argue

misc • March 2013

Writing to clarify thoughts

misc • March 2013

Silly semantics arguments

misc • March 2013