Minding our way

This speech was written for the wedding of Ruben Bloom to Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg. They were wed in a planetarium, and after this speech, the stars were painted on the »

If you have money and want to save lives, you had better put a price on life. Scott Alexander explains it better than I can [http://squid314.livejournal.com/260949. »

My last five posts have all been similar in structure: * Enjoying the feeling of agency [https://mindingourway.com/enjoying-the-feeling-of-agency/] is about how you can notice opportunities »

[Content note: This post is about staring into your regrets. It's always a little painful, but if you think it would be actively harmful for you, then you »

Imagine there's a project you want finished — for concreteness, pretend there's a paper you want written. You start trying to write it, and find yourself surfing »

1 Part way through my second year of college, I realized that I didn't want to continue my relationship with my current girlfriend. We had been dating for »

I'm travelling for the holidays, so this post and next week's post will be quite short. Last week, I wrote about enjoying the feeling of agency »

1 Most ideas need at least one champion. There is a moment when ideas are forming — be it over drinks at a bar, during a brainstorming session at work, or »