keefe comments on Teachable Rationality Skills - Less Wrong

52 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 27 May 2011 09:57PM

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Comment author: JenniferRM 28 May 2011 06:00:30AM *  11 points [-]

Skill: An accurate and functional awareness of time.

By this I mean to include noticing that pre-established dates and times have arrived, predicting the amount of time things will take you or other people, not carrying through with schedules or plans inflexibly when real surprises should cause updates, understanding how to effectively communicate about time with people about time management in ways that respect the listener's time management skills, and so on.

Comment author: keefe 22 June 2011 03:05:21PM 0 points [-]

I spent more than I care to admit learning to tell myself to sleep for some window of hours, like no more than 2 or 4 or whatever