Group Rationality Diary, April 1-15

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This is the public group instrumental rationality diary for April 1-15.

It's a place to record and chat about it if you have done, or are actively doing, things like:

Established a useful new habit

Obtained new evidence that made you change your mind about some belief

Decided to behave in a different way in some set of situations

Optimized some part of a common routine or cached behavior

Consciously changed your emotions or affect with respect to something

Consciously pursued new valuable information about something that could make a big difference in your life

Learned something new about your beliefs, behavior, or life that surprised you

Tried doing any of the above and failed

Or anything else interesting which you want to share, so that other people can think about it, and perhaps be inspired to take action themselves. Try to include enough details so that everyone can use each other's experiences to learn about what tends to work out, and what doesn't tend to work out.

Thanks to cata for starting the Group Rationality Diary posts, and to commenters for participating.

Immediate past diary: March 16-31

Next diary: April 16-30

Rationality diaries archive

This is the public group instrumental rationality diary for April 1-15.

It's a place to record and chat about it if you have done, or are actively doing, things like:

Established a useful new habit

Obtained new evidence that made you change your mind about some belief

Decided to behave in a different way in some set of situations

Optimized some part of a common routine or cached behavior

Consciously changed your emotions or affect with respect to something

Consciously pursued new valuable information about something that could make a big difference in your life

Learned something new about your beliefs, behavior, or life that surprised you

Tried doing any of the above and failed

Or anything else interesting which you want to share, so that other people can think about it, and perhaps be inspired to take action themselves. Try to include enough details so that everyone can use each other's experiences to learn about what tends to work out, and what doesn't tend to work out.

Thanks to cata for starting the Group Rationality Diary posts, and to commenters for participating.

Immediate past diary: March 16-31

Next diary: April 16-30

Rationality diaries archive

Now started intentionally immersing myself in Spanish. I've always had a lackadaisical approach to language learning--I like to dabble, but I don't actually know anything. Spanish is the language I am most familiar (besides English) with--I was partially raised by my El Salvadorian grandmother, took 3 years of Spanish in middle/high school--and I STILL fail to feel comfortable speaking it. I looked into Cognito Mentoring's wiki and realized that I ought to either get serious about fluency or stop wasting my time maintaining a meager half-comprehension.

I've got a web extension that partially translates the text I'm reading, and I'm checking out the top Youtube videos in Spanish-speaking countries weekly.

On a side note, I'm also slowly trawling through a lojban introduction, making anki cards as I go along. I'm working out an intuitive model of the 5 selbri slots I can use so my brain doesn't get lost whenever someone switches the order.