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The Good Life Putanumed

What is a good life? What can mere numbers offer on this question? They offer freedom from other people's stories, and insight into yourself.

December 10, 2020December 11, 20205 Comments
erisology, life

Against Victimhood

Victimhood is a hot product, and many are selling it. But it's not worth the price.

September 12, 2020September 13, 202032 Comments
life, model agency

Kelly Bet on Everything

"The better you do the more you should bet on yourself" is a lesson from finance you can apply everywhere.

July 4, 2020July 20, 202020 Comments
life

TFW No Incels

Do incels exist? A psychography of memes, suffering, community, and radical acceptance.

May 1, 2020May 1, 202036 Comments
life

100 Ways To Live Better

Life advice from my most popular Twitter thread ever.

December 30, 2019February 5, 202023 Comments
life

Cooperation is for Winners

Competition can often be bad, but competing well is often the only path to cooperating well.

February 12, 2019February 15, 2019competition7 Comments
life, sports

Masculine Virtues

Gillette and Roger Federer demonstrate the difference between traditional and toxic masculinity, who hates hierarchies and why, and the virtues learned by watching sports.

January 26, 2019January 30, 2019masculinity29 Comments
interview, life

Peanut Butter

Exploring materialism, Buddhism, demons, suffering, and monogamy with deluks917 and a jar of peanut butter.

November 27, 2018December 9, 2019Buddhism, lifestyle, mindfulness14 Comments
life

Jobs Inside the API

If someone is worse at their job than a drunk person with Google, why do they still have their job?

August 9, 2018August 21, 201821 Comments
life, rationality

Internal Diet Crux

Should I keep trying one diet after another or just accept my figure as it is? I let the voices in my head hash it out.

March 30, 2018March 30, 2018CFAR, diet18 Comments
life, rationality

The Jordan Peterson Mask

Should secular liberals try to get in the head of a conservative philosopher of religion? Yes, if it's all in the pursuit of truth.

March 3, 2018March 7, 2018culture war, Peterson21 Comments
life, policy and economics

Antiantinatalism

Antinatalism isn't just bad philosophy, it's partly based on bad economics. I argue that having kids isn't just good for the kids, it makes the whole world better off.

February 8, 2018February 8, 2018children, philosophy33 Comments
life, sports

Plan to Be Lucky

Take some advice from Trump and Nick Foles - if you're an underdog you should assume that you're lucky.

January 15, 20184 Comments
life

Confessions of a Slacker

Slack is freedom: how to measure it, build it and use it. Plus - why did God lie to Abraham?

November 7, 2017currency, scarcity, slack10 Comments
life, love

Winning is for Losers

Life is all about competition, and competitions are all about winning. Unless they don't have to be.

October 11, 2017January 24, 2020competition, cooperation, dating29 Comments
life

Escaping the Premium Mediocre

The view from just outside the millennialest social class.

August 26, 2017August 29, 2017lifestyle, millennials, Ribbonfarm13 Comments
life

Take my Job

What my old job taught me about company culture and diversity.

August 16, 2017company culture, diversity, work3 Comments
life

Time Well Spent

I partake in the ancient tradition of blogging about productivity systems instead of getting actual work done.

May 9, 2017May 10, 2017akrasia, goals, procrastination12 Comments
life, love, rationality

How to Choose a Goddess (Using a Spreadsheet)

For the hardest choices we make in life, our gut is not enough. We also need a chart with numbers in it.

March 12, 2017April 13, 2019evaluation matrix51 Comments
life, money

Get Rich Slowly

Putanumonit's simple and suboptimal guide to personal finance and investment.

February 10, 2017January 28, 2019finance, investment, retirement47 Comments

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