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I did a Spartan race. [Edit: Chat GPT said the biggest thing it would change in my retrospective is I d distinguish Spartan is badly designed from Spartan is designed for a different conception of fun than mine. ] Overview There were Continue reading
I disagree with point #1 in modern sales to big companies. See Jill Konrath s book on the subject if interested. tl;dr- Big organizations have a small number of overworked decision makers. They have recently developed very strong immune systems for Continue reading
This is an unusually interesting framework, so I m sharing. Original prompt: You [AP] are unusually good at [taking on/performing] coordination when coordination is absent. That s valuable. But I wonder whether your next stage of growth is becoming unusually good at Continue reading
Following up on the discussion of a minimalist training plan with Chat GPT, I find myself in a lot of fruitless arguments due to the following beliefs: 1. Health is natural, so doing anything I don t feel like will actually Continue reading
If I asked you to skip to the end of this thread of analysis and give me the most likely answer, based on what is already known, what exercise advice would you give? If I had to skip to the Continue reading
Today s devotional was about asking for some small revelation about the heart of God. So I asked, and he revealed to me that he doesn t merely experience emotions, he experiences them strongly. While theologically sound (I ll double-check against gotquestions.org at Continue reading
H/T Carl Hendrick: About 15 years ago we started to become more and more automated in our cockpits, and as the level of automation increased more and more we started talking about pushing buttons up here on EFVS manual or Continue reading
Re: https://aeolipera.wordpress.com/2026/07/01/barriers-to-training/ Chat GPT s elaboration in the comments.
We re now learning that an unfortunate side effect of instrumental rationalism is that is stealthily degrades the will to live. I m not 100% clear yet about how this happens, but I suspect it s via reductionism. As people become more explicitly Continue reading
I ve been asking everyone I know this. Which part(s) of this argument are you skeptical about? Everyone wants better results. Skill precedes results. Practice precedes skill. Attitude precedes practice. It s the willingness to try (and keep trying) that leads to Continue reading