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How to do everything - by David R. MacIver

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This is the weekly free issue of “Overthinking Everything” which goes out every Wednesday. There is also a paid issue every Sunday. The last one was Understanding your health is hard, which explored the large gap between what we can know for certain to be true and where we have to just make our best guess, and how much of our experience of our health and how to improve it lives in that space. Today I’d like to talk to you about small insights, and how they can unblock us from tasks that seem intractably hard. You know those stupid stitched bags that you get some things in (big sacks of rice and potatoes mostly for me, but they’re used for other things too). Do you know how to open them or do you always make a total mess of it like me? If the latter, here, watch this video: If you can’t be bothered to watch the video, the key insight is this: You need to untie the end, and then you can just pull the two pieces of string and it easily comes apart. No need for scissors, no mess, it’s easy

How to do everything David R. MacIver May 05, 2021 88 5 7 Share Today I’d like to talk to you about small insights, and how they can unblock us from tasks that seem intractably hard. How to open those stupid stitched bags Update from the future : I have decided that the correct answer to this one is “Cut the top of the bag off”. There are actually several different styles of this sort of stitching, and this only works with some of them. The most regular encounter I have with this problem these days is Village Pride bags of rice, where this technique doesn’t work, and even if you successfully g

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