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Sasha Hydrie

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  • Nothing that truly lasts is built out of halfheartedness. Instead, it’s about committing to your particular vision of what you wish to send out,
    what's a good commitment? - by Nix 🕊 - starting from nix
  • Gift unusually useful things
    top 10 (university) life hacks
  • In practice, "helping Eliezer write" doesn't really require me to do much. Mostly I just sit next to him and watch him write. Occasionally I make a suggestion or two, some of which have actually found their way to the manuscript (if the final version still has the xckd reference, I'm the one to blame), but mostly I just watch. Apparently having someone looking expectantly at the text is enough to prompt writing activity. (This does not surprise me. I know from writing fiction that I get far more done far easier if I'm writing it together with someone, and part of it is definitely in the knowle…
    Travel diary, days 12-19: xuenay — LiveJournal
  • A very common response to the planning puzzle is to try to “keep your options open.”
    How to do career planning properly - 80,000 Hours
  • Some concrete options here include (in no specific order):
    Which jobs put you in the best long-term position? - 80,000 Hours
  • Which would you choose from these two options? Prevent one person from suffering next year. Prevent 100 people from suffering (the same amount) 100 years from now. Most people choose the second option. It’s a crude example, but it suggests that they value future generations.
    Which world problems are the most important to solve? – 80,000 Hours
  • The bottom line is that even if no mobile phone charger were ever left plugged in again, Britain would save at most 0.01% of its personal power usage (and that’s leaving aside industrial usage and the like). So even if entirely successful, a quick estimate shows that this BBC campaign could have no noticeable effect. MacKay said it was like “trying to bail out the Titanic with a tea strainer.”
    How to find the world's most pressing problems
  • However, you don’t need to become friends with everyone, or even like all of your colleagues. Research shows that perhaps the most important factor is whether you can get help from your colleagues when you run into problems. A major meta-analysis found “social support” was among the top predictors of job satisfaction (r=0.56).
    What makes for a dream job? Here's what the evidence says.
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    What makes for a dream job? Here's what the evidence says.
  • the third common personalization bias demonstrated unapologetically by Daylist is the endemic tech-company fondness for unsupervised machine learning over explicit human curation
    Individual initiative, corporate inertia and good bad advice
  • . The subject that interests him, he’s read newspapers, biographies, trade press. He went over to his grandfather who was a grocer and he read t
    Curius / Onboarding