I spent a long time spinning my wheels calculating the "scenarios i'd most like to mitigate" and the "1-3 potentially most effective interventions" before noticing that not specializing was slowly killing me. Agree that this is the hard part, but a current guess of mine is that at least some people should do the 80/20 by identifying a top 5 then throwing dice.

I have to make a post about specialization, the value it adds to your life independent of the choice of what to specialize in, etc.

Agree that PBT is the control group! Agree that PBT is the 80/20 for most people most of the time.

This worked for me!

Great, thanks. Yeah I dont have a preexisting sequence yet. So this doesnt work for me

I checked for both of those! tho the second time I found the edit profile part of "account settings". That one is totally on me!

New sequence: again, not seeing it at my profile. I ctrl+f for "sequence" and get nothing.

i'm a bad user but i'm looking for two buttons on my profile and can't find them.

1. I would like to edit my user profile
2. I would like to form a Sequence out of two of my blog posts.

I think probably, yeah. there's some sticks in the fire about this, watch this space etc.

sorry about the spam from my profile. the automated RSS ingest freaked out when I changed my substack domain and sent all those duplicates.

is there a search feature on lesswrong for like

anna salamon has a sentence about burning man

so from:@annasalamon burning man which greps through any anna salamon post that mentions burning man?

it was about the contrast between "fixing electronics in all the dust for your friend's art installation" and "expanding your mind, maybe with drugs" and how the physics-bound task keeps you from spiraling into insanity.

Social graph density leads to millions of acquaintances and few close friends, because you don’t need to treasure each other