itaibn0 comments on The Centre for Applied Rationality: a year later from a (somewhat) outside perspective - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 25 May 2013 07:09:48PM 5 points [-]

The workshop spat me out three days later, twice as exhausted, with teetering piles of ideas and very little time or energy to apply them. I left with a list of annual goals, which I had never bothered to have before, and a feeling that more was possible–this included the feeling that more would have been possible if the workshop had been longer and less chaotic, if I had slept more the week before, if I hadn't had to rush out on Sunday evening to catch a plane and miss the social.

How much of the goals have you accomplished and how much of a difference have they actually made?

Comment author: itaibn0 25 May 2013 07:35:10PM 4 points [-]

Of my thirteen written goals on my list, I fully accomplished only four and partially accomplished five, but I did make it back to San Francisco, at the opportunity cost of four weeks of sacrificed hospital shifts.

That answers your first question.

Comment author: gwern 26 May 2013 04:51:45AM 5 points [-]

Oh man how did I miss that? Well, that still leaves how important the 9 are.

Comment author: Kawoomba 26 May 2013 06:20:25AM 7 points [-]

Oh man how did I miss that?

Could be that age self-experiment you're doing ...