Connect to your future selves
While your connection to your past self is mostly about your sense of identity, your connection to your future self is more practical.
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Connect to your past selves
Some people use meditation to learn valuable things about their deepest selves; some use therapy; some use psychedelic drugs. I use time travel.
Your four-dimensional body
Introduction
Link: How Specialization Enables Systemic Evil
I came across this article How Specialization Enables Systemic Evil. It’s overblown and seems LLM-influenced, but I really like the central connection it makes: society keeps doing foolish things and hurting itself because too many of its members are too specialized to look around and notice the danger/fraud/waste.
Manage your indefinite optimisms
It’s just a thing I read in this book when I was twelve.
Master your sleep cycles
Getting enough sleep is just the beginning.
Agency, responsibility, and control, and the relationships between them
The past three posts are linked here; read them if you haven’t already, then read on about how they combine together to make a person more effective, useful, and influential.
Control: The mysterious aura of good outcomes
This third trait in the trinity of getting things done is one that I’d been trying to pinpoint for a while.
Responsibility: The trait of honorable obligation
This is part of a series on three key personality traits of productivity.
Agency: The “main character” trait
Much of the content on this site is about personal productivity, and I’d like to touch on three key personality traits that pertain to it.