Gary Xin

on the atlas — 23

• There’s no such thing as a tree (phylogenetically) | Eukaryote Writes Blog2 savers
• RLHF & Post-Training Course by Nathan Lambert14 savers
• Speed matters: Why working quickly is more important than it seems « the jsomers.net blog66 savers
• I Found It: The Best Free Restaurant Bread in America - The Atlantic1 savers
• Notes on a non-profit indicted for bank fraud2 savers
• Software companies buying software: a story of ecosystems and vendors · Erik Bernhardsson1 savers
• Varieties Of Doom2 savers
• “Raphael: Sublime Poetry,” Reviewed: The Met Rescues a Master | The New Yorker1 savers
• Log -- David Chess1 savers
• Alice Munro is Dead - Freddie deBoer1 savers
• Shut Up About Slave Morality - by Bentham's Bulldog1 savers
• Book Review: Sadly, Porn - by Scott Alexander6 savers
• Matt Yglesias Considered As The Nietzschean Superman5 savers
• Why Is Everything So Ugly? | Issue 44 | n+1 | The Editors5 savers
• Good and Bad Procrastination2 savers
• A blog post is a very long and complex search query to find fascinating people and make them route interesting stuff to your inbox25 savers
• Intentionally Making Close Friends — Neel Nanda38 savers
• Sam Altman’s Manifest Destiny11 savers
• Memos11 savers
• Good conversations have lots of doorknobs18 savers
• Making Normal Conversations Better - by Sasha Chapin41 savers
• The Birth of the New American Aristocracy - The Atlantic3 savers
• What can a technologist do about climate change? A personal view.15 savers

highlights — 3

• Tuesday, January 11, 2005 One afternoon a student said "Roshi, I don't really understand what's going on. I mean, we sit in zazen and we gassho to each other and everything, and Felicia got enlightened when the bottom fell out of her water-bucket, and Todd got enlightened when you popped him one with your staff, and people work on koans and get enlightened, but I've been doing this for two years now, and the koans don't make any sense, and I don't feel enlightened at all! Can you just tell me what's going on?" "Well you see," Roshi replied, "for most people, and especially for most educated pe…

  Log -- David Chess

• Big problems are terrifying. There's an almost physical pain in facing them. It's like having a vacuum cleaner hooked up to your imagination. All your initial ideas get sucked out immediately, and you don't have any more, and yet the vacuum cleaner is still sucking.

  Good and Bad Procrastination

• There are an infinite number of things you could be doing. No matter what you work on, you're not working on everything else. So the question is not how to avoid procrastination, but how to procrastinate well.

  Good and Bad Procrastination