Minding our way

This is a version of How We Will Be Measured [https://mindingourway.com/how-we-will-be-measured/], abridged for speech and delivered at the Bay Area 2019 winter solstice »

Context: Multiple friends of mine have recently (independently) reported to me that they feel like they’re under conversational attack. Multiple friends have also independently told me that they are »

I often bump into people who want to do something big, interesting, or important, but who utterly lack the ability to commit themselves to a particular action (often because they »

Here's a question I get asked pretty regularly: > OK, I'm sold on this whole "do the best you can" [https://mindingourway.com/best- »

"Believe in yourself" is perhaps the most common trope to be found in self-help books and motivational texts. It appears in fiction (especially children's books) »

I often see friends run into a failure mode I call "false consistency," especially in the Effective Altruism and Rationality circles, where consistency is an important virtue. The »

Today marks the end of my series on replacing guilt (table of contents [https://mindingourway.com/guilt]). I began the series [https://mindingourway.com/replacing-guilt/] by discussing the " »

After nearly a year of writing, my "replacing guilt" sequence is coming to a close. I have just one more thing to say on the subject, by pointing »