You can browse the “Practical” tag to find posts which are directly useful. Here are some of my favorites:
Lukeprog’s The Science of Winning at Life sequence summarizes scientifically-backed advice for “winning” at everyday life: in productivity, relationships, emotions, etc. Not exaggerating, it is close to the most useful piece of media I have ever consumed. I especially recommend the first post Scientific Self Help: The State of our Knowledge, which transformed my perception of where I should look to learn how to improve my life.
After reading Scientific Self Help, my suspicion that popular self-help books were epistemically garbage was confirmed, and I learned that many of my questions for how to improve my life could be answered by textbooks. This gave me a strong intrinsic motivation for self-learning, which was made more effective by another of Lukeprog’s posts, Scholarship: How to Do It Efficiently, combined with his thread The Best Textbooks on Every Subject.
You can browse the “Practical” tag to find posts which are directly useful. Here are some of my favorites:
Lukeprog’s The Science of Winning at Life sequence summarizes scientifically-backed advice for “winning” at everyday life: in productivity, relationships, emotions, etc. Not exaggerating, it is close to the most useful piece of media I have ever consumed. I especially recommend the first post Scientific Self Help: The State of our Knowledge, which transformed my perception of where I should look to learn how to improve my life.
After reading Scientific Self Help, my suspicion that popular self-help books were epistemically garbage was confirmed, and I learned that many of my questions for how to improve my life could be answered by textbooks. This gave me a strong intrinsic motivation for self-learning, which was made more effective by another of Lukeprog’s posts, Scholarship: How to Do It Efficiently, combined with his thread The Best Textbooks on Every Subject.
Romeo Steven’s no-bullshit recommendations on how to increase your longevity and exercise routines, with a ten-year update and reflection.
Many posts that are Repositories of advice.
Ok, this kind of tag is exactly what I was asking about. I’ll have a lok at these posts.
You can also use the frontpage filters to make only post tagged practical appear, or to make them highly prioritized.
I found the stuff about relationship success in Luke’s first post here to be useful! thanks