I, for one, would love to read your response to Carl’s question about your “world is mad” thesis:
It looks to me like “people are crazy, the world is mad” has lead you astray repeatedly, but I haven’t seen as many successes. What are some of the major predictive successes of “the world is mad” that held up under careful investigation of dispositive facts?
Off the instant top of my head, central line infections and the European Central Bank. I’m busy working on HPMOR and can’t really take the time to consult my Freemind map for the top dozen items. Carl’s list does seem kinda lopsided to me (i.e. not representative), but again, got to make the update deadline on the 29th and all my energy’s going there.
Yes but I might need to be reprodded come July 16th which is when my schedule quiets down again. Having a general debate on whether the world is mad doesn’t seem like a particularly good thing to recurse on deep in a comment thread.
I currently have two ways to do this. One is RTM and the other is Boomerang. I use RTM for reminders to do something in the future where it’s not particularly important exactly when I do them and Boomerang for reminders to do something in the future at a particular time, e.g. if I know I’m going to be in a particular location around 3:00pm next Tuesday and I’d like to be reminded to do something at that location I’ll Boomerang an email to myself for that time. (Or, if someone emailed me about this thing, I can Boomerang that email instead.)
I, for one, would love to read your response to Carl’s question about your “world is mad” thesis:
Off the instant top of my head, central line infections and the European Central Bank. I’m busy working on HPMOR and can’t really take the time to consult my Freemind map for the top dozen items. Carl’s list does seem kinda lopsided to me (i.e. not representative), but again, got to make the update deadline on the 29th and all my energy’s going there.
Will you respond when you have more time? :-)
Yes but I might need to be reprodded come July 16th which is when my schedule quiets down again. Having a general debate on whether the world is mad doesn’t seem like a particularly good thing to recurse on deep in a comment thread.
Re-prodding, as suggested.
For future readers: The discussion has continued here.
You seem to have a reminder system that you enter even trivial reminders into, and then get reminded later and act on them. What do you use?
I currently have two ways to do this. One is RTM and the other is Boomerang. I use RTM for reminders to do something in the future where it’s not particularly important exactly when I do them and Boomerang for reminders to do something in the future at a particular time, e.g. if I know I’m going to be in a particular location around 3:00pm next Tuesday and I’d like to be reminded to do something at that location I’ll Boomerang an email to myself for that time. (Or, if someone emailed me about this thing, I can Boomerang that email instead.)
Either Gmail+ActiveInbox or Things. These days, moreso the former.
I think most cellphones sold over the past decade or so (incl. the Nokia 3310, IIRC) have such a functionality.
Can you expand on this? I’m interested in what you use to organize your time and thoughts.