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Crossposted. (At this point the discussion on LW is nearly always better than the discussion on my own blog, and gives me more to think about afterwards. Thank you for that.) If there’s any reason for you to watch these piano practice videos, it’s less about watching my skills improve...
Crossposted. Previous reading includes Money-generating environments vs. wealth-building environments (or "my thoughts on the stock market"). For “market volatility,” read people are redeeming cash from the market. For “market growth,” read people are putting more cash into the market. For continued market growth, you need more people putting cash in...
Crossposted. Very interested in whether you think I'm right; also interested in the ways you think I'm wrong. This post is going to include a discussion of the stock market, which means that I am obligated to begin with a statement that you should not take any of this as...
Crossposted. Here we go. To recap: Last week I wrote about what happened when I applied metrics to my piano practice, in which I outlined the “secret to learning” in eight steps: 1. Define win condition. 2. Define action you are going to take to achieve win condition. 3. Take...
Crossposted from Nicole Dieker Dot Com. The third and final part in my piano practice series, as promised. If you follow me on Twitter — and I’m not at all sure if you should, since Twitter seems to be less valuable to me every successive day — which in turn...
Crossposted from Nicole Dieker Dot Com. Also — I hadn't yet read the Immoral Mazes sequence when I wrote this, but it seems like we're talking about the same kind of thing. All right. Let's see if I can sum all of this up as efficiently as possible: There are...
Crossposted from Nicole Dieker Dot Com, naturally. I wrote this one before I started following the LW community, so "magician" can be replaced with "hero" if you want — although I like using "magician" for reasons that will become clear in the post. Start by asking yourself what you ought...