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As part of a bet with a friend, I wrote almost every day for four years, and unsurprisingly, that means that a lot of the posts here are not very good. Fortunately these days I post far less often, but try to ensure that what I write is of a respectable quality. You can also browse by category or browse by series.

Featured Post

• Giving What I Can

  Published November 8, 2023 in Effective Altruism / Featured - 12 mins to read
  I’ve read several LinkedIn posts on why people chose to take the Giving What We Can Pledge...

Most Recent Posts

• Beeminding My Own Business

  Published March 31, 2024 in Personal Development / Wellbeing - 4 mins to read
  What if the currency of procrastination and ill-discipline was not regret, but the American dollar?..

• Notes From William Zinsser's On Writing Well

  Published March 21, 2024 in Books - 3 mins to read
  I thought I was a passable writer, but Zinsser changed that - although he also showed me the path to proficiency...

• On Productivity

  Published March 15, 2024 in Personal Development - 8 mins to read
  I’m not the most productive person I know, but I have improved my productivity a lot, particularly in the last year...

• An Introduction to Internal Family Systems: A Brief Review

  Published March 12, 2024 in Books - 4 mins to read
  I think there is something of a problem with reading books about therapy, or perhaps psychology more generally...

• The Arc

  Published February 1, 2024 in Running - 10 mins to read
  I spent a lot of time thinking about what I wanted to say about this race before I even got to the start line...

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