Kyle Morris
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- The Science of Love, Desire and Attachment | Huberman Lab Podcast #59 - YouTube1 savers
- Running a dev shop — part 2: Bootstrapping and specialization | by Marek Kirejczyk | Medium2 savers
- The Thrill of Losing Money by Investing in a Manhattan Restaurant | The New Yorker1 savers
- Running a dev shop — Part 1: Myths and favorable facts | by Marek Kirejczyk | Medium1 savers
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- What is Evidence? — LessWrong1 savers
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Running a dev shop — part 2: Bootstrapping and specialization | by Marek Kirejczyk | MediumIf restaurants had to be good business ideas, and attract sophisticated investors who mercilessly demanded a profit, there would be fewer restaurants. They would be less cool. The food would be less good.
The Thrill of Losing Money by Investing in a Manhattan Restaurant | The New YorkerThese assaults made me wonder whether it’s ever possible to profit from a New York restaurant investment.
The Thrill of Losing Money by Investing in a Manhattan Restaurant | The New Yorker“Food’s too cheap, tipping makes no sense, cooks are broke, and it’s damn near impossible to earn a living in this effed-up business.
The Thrill of Losing Money by Investing in a Manhattan Restaurant | The New Yorkerjust under three dollars (two dollars and eighty cents, to be exact) was left over for operating income. For the record, that is less than was paid in credit-card fees.
The Thrill of Losing Money by Investing in a Manhattan Restaurant | The New YorkerIt turns out that the majority of restaurants in NY are making a profit no bigger than 1–2%, which, as the author of the article points out, is less than the credit card commission they have to pay.
Running a dev shop — Part 1: Myths and favorable facts | by Marek Kirejczyk | MediumProbing into the matter, Gary discovered that the vast majority of NY food businesses are working on low, one-digit margins, due to low-entry barriers on a market that is close-to-perfect competition.
Running a dev shop — Part 1: Myths and favorable facts | by Marek Kirejczyk | MediumCommitments as communication, not contract
Relationship Anarchy Guide — The Relationship AnarchistSSRIs can work in the short term, but you could be more depleted over time – there’s an emerging theory that treatment-resistant depression may deplete the neural circuits that enhance mood
Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett: How To Understand Emotions | Huberman Lab • Podcast Notes“The best thing for the human nervous system is another human – and – the worst thing for the human nervous system is another human.” – Dr. Lisa Feldman Choose your people wisely!
Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett: How To Understand Emotions | Huberman Lab • Podcast NotesFeeling and emotion are not interchangeable words; when you create an emotion, you’re giving meaning to the affective feelings
Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett: How To Understand Emotions | Huberman Lab • Podcast NotesSerotonin is a metabolic regulator – not a hormone that just makes you happy Cortisol comes online when you’re stressed or aroused but isn’t inherently a ‘stress hormone’
Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett: How To Understand Emotions | Huberman Lab • Podcast NotesThe brain wants to reduce uncertainty because it would be too stressful if every experience was brand new and unknown
Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett: How To Understand Emotions | Huberman Lab • Podcast NotesOur genes require early learning to build on hardwiring; genes aren’t the only blueprint, your brain needs to understand the external world
Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett: How To Understand Emotions | Huberman Lab • Podcast NotesEmotions are also rarely one thing, they’re groupings of instances and processes that vary
Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett: How To Understand Emotions | Huberman Lab • Podcast NotesThe Fourier Transform takes a time-based pattern, measures every possible cycle, and returns the overall "cycle recipe" (the amplitude, offset, & rotation speed for every cycle that was found).
An Interactive Guide To The Fourier Transform – BetterExplainedWhat does the Fourier Transform do? Given a smoothie, it finds the recipe. How? Run the smoothie through filters to extract each ingredient. Why? Recipes are easier to analyze, compare, and modify than the smoothie itself. How do we get the smoothie back? Blend the ingredients.
An Interactive Guide To The Fourier Transform – BetterExplainedFor an event to be evidence about a target of inquiry, it has to happen differently in a way that’s entangled with the different possible states of the target. (To say it technically: There has to be Shannon mutual information between the evidential event and the target of inquiry, relative to your current state of uncertainty about both of them.)
What is Evidence? — LessWrongWhat is evidence? It is an event entangled, by links of cause and effect, with whatever you want to know about. If the target of your inquiry is your shoelaces, for example, then the light entering your pupils is evidence entangled with your shoelaces.
What is Evidence? — LessWrongIf you don’t believe that the outputs of your thought processes are entangled with reality, why believe the outputs of your thought processes? It’s the same thing, or it should be.
What is Evidence? — LessWrongNot every change is an improvement, but every improvement is necessarily a change. You cannot obtain more truth for a fixed proposition by arguing it; you can make more people believe it, but you cannot make it more true. To improve our beliefs, we must necessarily change our beliefs. Rationality is the operation that we use to obtain more accuracy for our beliefs by changing them. Rationalization operates to fix beliefs in place; it would be better named “anti-rationality,” both for its pragmatic results and for its reversed algorithm.
Rationalization — LessWrongThere is a powerful advantage to admitting you have made a large mistake. It’s painful. It can also change your whole life. It is important to have the watershed moment, the moment of humbling realization. To acknowledge a fundamental problem, not divide it into palatable bite-size mistakes.
The Importance of Saying "Oops" — LessWrongI could have moved so much faster, I realized, if I had simply screamed “OOPS!”
The Importance of Saying "Oops" — LessWrongConsider what happens to you, on a psychological level, if you begin by saying: “It is my duty to criticize my own beliefs.” Roger Zelazny once distinguished between “wanting to be an author” versus “wanting to write.” Mark Twain said: “A classic is something that everyone wants to have read and no one wants to read.” Criticizing yourself from a sense of duty leaves you wanting to have investigated, so that you’ll be able to say afterward that your faith is not blind. This is not the same as wanting to investigate.
The Meditation on Curiosity — LessWrongIf the box contains a diamond, I desire to believe that the box contains a diamond; If the box does not contain a diamond, I desire to believe that the box does not contain a diamond; Let me not become attached to beliefs I may not want.
Litany of Tarski - LessWrongsystematically training one’s motivational systems in this way is also not automatic for us. And so it seems far from surprising that most of us have not trained ourselves in this way, and that most of our “goal-seeking” actions are far less effective than they could be.
Humans are not automatically strategic — LessWrongWhy do most of us, most of the time, choose to "pursue our goals" through routes that are far less effective than the routes we could find if we tried?[1]
Humans are not automatically strategic — LessWrongwhy do many people go through long training programs “to make money” without spending a few hours doing salary comparisons ahead of time? Why do many who type for hours a day remain two-finger typists, without bothering with a typing tutor program? Why do people spend their Saturdays “enjoying themselves” without bothering to track which of their habitual leisure activities are *actually* enjoyable? Why do even unusually numerate people fear illness, car accidents, and bogeymen, and take safety measures, but not bother to look up statistics on the relative risks? Why do most of us settle into …
Humans are not automatically strategic — LessWrong1. Epistemic rationality: systematically improving the accuracy of your beliefs. 2. Instrumental rationality: systematically achieving your values.
What Do We Mean By "Rationality"? - LessWrongMice see, but they don’t know they have visual cortexes, so they can’t correct for optical illusions
The Lens That Sees Its Flaws — LessWrongThe whole idea of Science is, simply, reflective reasoning about a more reliable process for making the contents of your mind mirror the contents of the world.
The Lens That Sees Its Flaws — LessWrongabout business. The subject that interests him, he’s read newspapers, biographies, trade press. He went over to his grandfather who was a g
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