I am bottlenecked on design taste and hustle. Possibly looking to hire someone.
I have a cluster of side-projects that feel like they are nearing fruition, but none of them are ready for primetime. Vibecoding makes it easy to do the first 90% of a project, but, not the second 90% of the project where you actually painstakingly test and iterate and go out and get customers and such.
The side projects include:
* www.rationality.training, which is aiming for a mix of:
* "exercises where you have solve a challenging problem, and cultivate new thinking-skills to solve them"
* a journal/writing app that prompts you to use your repertoire of thinking-skills when appropriate
* encouragement to predict-in-advance whether a given thinking-skill will turn out useful, and, to evaluate that afterwards, in a low-friction way.
* clusters thinking-strategies into "Triggers" and "Actions"
* Over time, you can see which thinking skills are most useful and do more of them.
* The "reasonably robust goodhartable metric" the site should encourage is "discovering new rationality habits, that you then go on to actually use." (implementation details unclear, but maybe something like H-Index for habits?)
* Omnilog (originally a side project of mine, later transmuted into an internal lightcone project mostly run by Oliver), which:
* records all your keystrokes/screenshots-your-laptop/transcribes your microphone, for a comprehensive log of everything that's easy to then feed into whatever crazy LLM tools you want to use it for.
* "Shoulder Angel" / "Trigger Warning"
* combines the previous two things into a thing that automatically suggests triggers you might want to notice, and then actions that might be appropriate given those triggers.
It feels pretty tantalizingly close to working. It's also clearly a distraction from a lot of other stuff I'm doing that will be awhile before it pays for itself and I don't know that I expect it really to pay for itself if I we
