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I had difficulties understanding how to use and interpret your workflowy. I'd have liked an extract though this admittedly breaks live update,
Personal Notes On Productivity (A categorization of various resources)
For each topic, I’ve curated a few links that I’ve found to be pretty high quality.
- Meta:(Epiphany Addiction, Reversing Advice, Excellence Porn)
- @Learning:
- Success People: (Mastery),(ChoosingTopics: Osci,PG)
- Thinking: (Ikigai, Stoicism, Rationality)
- HabitChange: (!ShootDog)
- Productivity.Principles/Energy/Relaxation:(FullEngagement, ArtOfLearning)
- Productivity.Systems/Hacks: (Autofocus, GTD/ZTD, EatFrog),(Scott Young)
- Depression/Anxiety:
- Social:
- Meditation
Full List: https://workflowy.com/s/zUTEaY0ZcJ
I'd like feedback on:
- What other categories/links would you include (I'm sure there's lots of interesting stuff I'm missing.)? What do you think of the categorization ("Thinking" is a pretty large category.)?
- Whether you think I should make cross-posts about sub-topics here. The main benefit of making more cross posts is that the discussion/comments would be more focused on those topics. In particular, I think that looking at SuccessfulPeople.Startups, SuccessfulPeople.Science, and the Meditation document are the most original parts of this post.
- SuccessfulPeople.Startups contains a categorization of some of Paul Graham's essays (e.g. Having ideas, fund-raising, executing, etc).
- The SuccessfulPeople.Science link contains a separate categorization of advice specifically for scientists (e.g. Picking ideas, the importance of being persistent, the importance of reading widely, etc).
- The meditation document lists a few high quality meditation resources that I've found (and I've read ~10 books on meditation. Most of it is crap. Some of the stuff I list is orders of magnitude better than the median meditation book I've read.).
- Whatever seems salient to you.
I had difficulties understanding how to use and interpret your workflowy.
Here's a link that gives directions on how to use workflowy if you've never used it before. As far as interpretation, what was unclear?
I'd have liked an extract though this admittedly breaks live update,
I'm not sure what you mean by this. What is an extract?
"Letting go" is something that can't be forced.
Why is that? How are you supposed to get better at concentration meditation unless you really want to?
I have not said something about "really wanting to" being bad. The problem is attachment. If you have once a really great experience meditating and then get attached to the idea of recreating that experience you usually don't get anywhere.
"Letting go" is something that can't be forced.
IIRC, the author doesn't use the phrase "letting go" anywhere in the book. He operationalizes all the terms/skills/states he talks about like differentiating between continuity of attention and sharpness of attention. I think the goal's he's talking about are very specific/operationalized.
I have not said something about "really wanting to" being bad.
My bad. That was a bit of a straw man on my part.
The problem is attachment. If you have once a really great experience meditating and then get attached to the idea of recreating that experience you usually don't get anywhere.
The author addresses that specific concern:
A warning is inorder here. It is very important not to sacrifice the development offull-minded awareness for sake of rapid progress in concentration. Todo so will lead to the development of concentration with dullness.This will produce very pleasurable meditative states that are dead-ends in themselves, leaving the meditator without the capacity for full-minded awareness necessary for completing the 10 stages of this method.
Overall, I think the first section of the book is skippable. You can use what's useful to you and leave the rest.
Meditation
"What stage are you in, and where does your effort need to be focused today?" "What is a reasonable goal for today’s practice in terms of your progress up to now?" "It is important that we have goals and that we maintain an expectation of progress."
Where is that advice coming from? I would expect that most people do something that hinders meditation if you speak to them about focusing their efforts on some goal.
That's from the short-book "Progressive Stages of Mindfulness in Plain English". Specifically, it's from the section on stage1, where the goal is to develop a habit of meditating. This is the section of the book in which the author has the least original insight. The rest of the book lays out a detailed granularization of how to develop the skill of concentration.
In general, I think this advice doesn't seem to contradict advice the advice on how to deliberately practice any skill.
I would expect that most people do something that hinders meditation if you speak to them about focusing their efforts on some goal.
Why is that? How are you supposed to get better at concentration meditation unless you really want to? The goals he's talking about are things like "focus for 5 minutes without letting my mind wander once."
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Best Explainers on Different Subjects
Metacademy is a knowledge graph of machine learning.
Visual Group Theory is a really well-written book on group theory.
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Open thread, Mar. 23 - Mar. 31, 2015
[Cross-Posted from the "Welcome to LW" thread] I'm a long-time user of LW. My old account has ~1000 karma. I'm making this account because I would like it to be tied to my real identity.
Here is my blog/personal-workflowy-wiki. I'd like to have 20 karma, so that I can make cross-posts from here to the LW Discussion.
I'm working on a rationality power tool. Specifically, it's an open-source workflowy with revision control and general graph structure. I want to use it as a wiki to map out various topics of interest on LW. If anybody is interested in working on (or using) rationality power tools, please PM me, as I've spent a lot of time thinking about them, and can also introduce you to some other people who are interested in this area.
EDIT: Added the missing links.
EDIT: First cross-post: Personal Notes On Productivity (A categorization of various resources)
In response to
Welcome to Less Wrong! (7th thread, December 2014)
I'm a long-time user of LW. My old account has ~1000 karma. I'm making this account because I would like it to be tied to my real identity.
Here is my blog/personal-workflowy-wiki. I'd like to have 20 karma, so that I can make cross-posts from here to the LW Discussion.
I'm working on a rationality power tool. Specifically, it's an open-source workflowy with revision control and general graph structure. I want to use it as a wiki to map out various topics of interest on LW. If anybody is interested in working on (or using) rationality power tools, please PM me, as I've spent a lot of time thinking about them, and can also introduce you to some other people who are interested in this area.
EDIT: First cross-post: Personal Notes On Productivity (A categorization of various resources)
EDIT: I've edited the LW-wiki to make a list of LWers interested in making debate tools..
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Most people cross-post article from their blogs more or less verbatim, but you just copied the head-lines which standing alone may make sense for you but not for everybody else.
I did this because if I just intended to look at the titles and go to the section that interested them. It's like posting the table of contents for a book. I could have edited it to display two levels of depth, but even that would have been quite long.
I agree there could be an issue with me using my own shorthand. But, I fell like if you looked at the sub-bullets of depth2 of any particular heading, that it would explain whatever shorthand I used in the heading. For example !shootDog has the sub-bullet "Book: Don't shoot the dog".