To me the piece of writing that most seems like a rationalist guide to achieving goals is Nick Winter’s “The Motivation Hacker”. While I think Nick Winter didn’t post on LessWrong, I would count him among the top ten people of the Quantified Self movement.
A few years later Nick Winter managed to go into YC without going to formal YC interview. He went to an onstage office-hour session and Paul Graham liked what he saw so much that he declared he directly accepted them into YC (and that’s not something that Paul Graham did previously).
To me the piece of writing that most seems like a rationalist guide to achieving goals is Nick Winter’s “The Motivation Hacker”. While I think Nick Winter didn’t post on LessWrong, I would count him among the top ten people of the Quantified Self movement.
A few years later Nick Winter managed to go into YC without going to formal YC interview. He went to an onstage office-hour session and Paul Graham liked what he saw so much that he declared he directly accepted them into YC (and that’s not something that Paul Graham did previously).
I met him at the CFAR Alumni Reunion 2014, so he is definitely connected to the community.