lukeprog comments on Explicit and tacit rationality - Less Wrong

40 Post author: lukeprog 09 April 2013 11:33PM

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Comment author: shminux 10 April 2013 04:24:08PM *  8 points [-]

I'd love to hear a story (or maybe stories) of someone becoming an LW regular, improving their "rationality skills" and going on to "win" (define and achieve their personal goals), thanks to those skills.

Here I explicitly exclude LW-related goals, such as understanding the sequences, attending a CFAR workshop or being hired by CFAR, signing up for cryonics or figuring out how to donate more to GiveWell. Instead, I'd love to hear how people applied what they learned on this site to start a business, make money, improve their love life (hooking up with an LW poly does not count for this purpose), or maybe to take over the world.

Hopefully some of the stories have already been posted here, so links would be appreciated.

Comment author: lukeprog 11 April 2013 12:43:04AM 1 point [-]

The Motivation Hacker is one such story, though it focuses on the relevance of the stuff in my procrastination post rather than on the relevance of the rest of LW.