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gwern comments on Stupid Questions Open Thread Round 4 - Less Wrong Discussion

6 Post author: lukeprog 27 August 2012 12:04AM

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Comment author: palladias 27 August 2012 09:05:03PM 6 points [-]

I was a July minicamp attendee. I did the big reading through the Sequences thing when lukeprog was doing it at Common Sense Atheism, so I'd day fewer of the benefits were rationality level-ups and more were life hacking. Post-minicamp I am:

  • doing sit-ups, push-ups, and squats every day (using the apps from the 200 situps guy), up from not doing this at all
  • martial arts training four times a week (aikido and krav) again, up from not doing things at all
  • using RTM to manage tasks which means
  • dropping way fewer small tasks
  • breaking tasks down into steps more efficiently
  • knocked off about three lagging tasks (not timebound, so I was making no progress on them) in the month that I got back
  • stopped using inbox as task manager, so I could actually only keep emails I was replying to in there
  • using beeminder to get down to inbox zero (currently three)
  • working in pomodoros has sped up my writing to the point where:
  • I miss doing a daily posts to my blog more rarely (one over two weeks compared to 0-2 a week) and have had more double post days than previously (which translates into higher page views and more money for me)
  • Less time writing left me more time for leisure reading
Comment author: gwern 27 August 2012 09:11:22PM 2 points [-]

How are you both posting more to your blog, and spending less time writing?

Comment author: palladias 27 August 2012 09:39:52PM 7 points [-]

I'm writing faster when I work in pomodoros and when I write on the train on the long schlep to aikido.

Comment author: palladias 28 August 2012 02:18:58PM 2 points [-]

Where I just broke my toe. Oh no, negative utility alert!