I’m a 37 year old male. I work from home as an engineer, primarily focusing on FPGA digital logic work and related C++, with a smattering of other things. I’m a father to two young children, and I live with my little family on a small farm in central Delaware. I’ve always been a cerebral sort of guy.
I can’t remember exactly how I came to LW—I may have heard it mentioned in a YouTube video—but finding it felt somehow like coming home. The core sequences have become some of my favorite reading material. LW was my first exposure to many of the disciplines discussed here: cognitive psychology, evolutionary psychology, Bayesian reasoning, and so on.
I feel like I’ve discovered a treasure. I’d like to thank everyone who has participated in building this content—it has been extremely enriching to me. Thank you.
My kids are still very young, but I am already starting to think about how I can help them learn to think rationally. I see it as part of my job to help them become better than I am, and I can’t help but think I would have benefited quite a lot if I had been exposed to the concepts that are discussed here much earlier in life. I’d like to figure out how to help, say, a five-year-old start on the path. This is something I expect to be putting a lot of thought and research into, and if I come up with something post-worthy I would be delighted to share it here.
I’m also a novice meditator. I have found Chade-Meng Tan’s treatment in Search Inside Yourself to be a good fit for me. It seems to me that building mindfulness is likely to be very useful in improving my agency, among other things. Thus far I have been only marginally successful, with the largest gains coming in parenting, and particularly in the area of self-control.
I have been lurking for quite a while, but I hope to participate more in the conversation.
Hi LWers!
I’m a 37 year old male. I work from home as an engineer, primarily focusing on FPGA digital logic work and related C++, with a smattering of other things. I’m a father to two young children, and I live with my little family on a small farm in central Delaware. I’ve always been a cerebral sort of guy.
I can’t remember exactly how I came to LW—I may have heard it mentioned in a YouTube video—but finding it felt somehow like coming home. The core sequences have become some of my favorite reading material. LW was my first exposure to many of the disciplines discussed here: cognitive psychology, evolutionary psychology, Bayesian reasoning, and so on.
I feel like I’ve discovered a treasure. I’d like to thank everyone who has participated in building this content—it has been extremely enriching to me. Thank you.
My kids are still very young, but I am already starting to think about how I can help them learn to think rationally. I see it as part of my job to help them become better than I am, and I can’t help but think I would have benefited quite a lot if I had been exposed to the concepts that are discussed here much earlier in life. I’d like to figure out how to help, say, a five-year-old start on the path. This is something I expect to be putting a lot of thought and research into, and if I come up with something post-worthy I would be delighted to share it here.
I’m also a novice meditator. I have found Chade-Meng Tan’s treatment in Search Inside Yourself to be a good fit for me. It seems to me that building mindfulness is likely to be very useful in improving my agency, among other things. Thus far I have been only marginally successful, with the largest gains coming in parenting, and particularly in the area of self-control.
I have been lurking for quite a while, but I hope to participate more in the conversation.