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I've been using a spreadsheet to track my work in various ways for about 10 years. There are some fun benefits to it that I want to share. It has really helped me improve my calibration and precision in an important area - planning my workload - and want to...

Epistemic status: based partly upon what I learnt as a certified ScrumMaster and mainly from practical experience running a software development team. Some of the later ideas come from Gower Handbook of Project Management, Judgement in Managerial Decision Making, and How to Measure Anything. When asked how long something will...

Discussion article for the meetup : London Meetup - Effective Altruism WHEN: 31 August 2014 02:00:00PM (+0100) WHERE: The Shakespeare Inn, Holborn, London LessWrong London are having another awesome meetup and we would love for you to come! Since I have recently attended the UK and the USA effective altruism...

The reason people succeed is well-focused, regular, effort. The reason for failure is more often lack of effort rather than the direction of the effort. For example, more people put on weight because they couldn't stick to their diet than those that chose a diet that wouldn't have caused weight...

Discussion article for the meetup : London Social Meetup (and AskMeAnything about the CFAR workshop) WHEN: 27 October 2013 02:00:00PM (+0100) WHERE: Shakespears's Head, Africa House, 64-68 Kingsway, London WC2B 6BG, UK LessWrong London are having another awesome meetup and we would love for you to come! This one will...

This article is an attempt to summarize basic material, and thus probably won't have anything new for the hard core posting crowd. It'd be interesting to know whether you think there's anything essential I missed, though. Summary We have a mental model of the world that we call our beliefs....

Discussion article for the meetup : London Meetup - Achieving Better Goals WHEN: 04 August 2013 02:00:00PM (+0100) WHERE: Shakespeare's Head, London, WC2B 6BG LessWrong London are having another awesome meetup and we would love for you to come! The plan is to meet at The Shakespeare Inn, 200m from...