It is today- I should have specified.
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Karma: 54
Aside from google, and searching on this website, life hacker and reddit are possible sources of information…
Well hopefully we get the momentum!
Proposing to change the time to day before this (Family reasons). Any objections?
We are all lurkers at some point. DW about it.
Meetup : First Sydney 2012 meetup.
neither was really all that interesting, in that I don’t see an opportunity to learn from them (Out of control perhaps?). From the perspective of “what I really would have liked to have figured out earlier”, not getting obsessed with measures versus guides is what I saw as most pertinent.
EDIT: Looking over it again, there really is a whole bunch of general phooey and borderline woo here. Unrestrained pattern droppings is a regular issue for me, but this is a pretty bad.
Waking up: I found brute force works best—Old style alarm clock with clanging bells placed on opposite end of room. This trumped all sorts of complex maneuvers, including training self to have a fixed pattern response to an certain iPhone alarm.
Slight + 1 on that exercise clothes thing: I wear nice comfy track pants and a singlet to bed, and leave my sneakers at the foot of my bed in the morning. I don’t even give myself the choice to put on the task specific clothing!
Cancel white jacket, we are sitting in corner
Do try. As said I will be there (and presumably at least one associate) regardless, If only to reinforce that I will attend regardless.
Probably worth noting that last time the majority of attendees where lurkers.
Meetup : Less Wrong in Sydney
I’m liking this—A nice, practical rationality implementation technique.
In a broader sense, perhaps if one had the time, it might be good to have Agile, five forces and Business Generation Models on cards too. I’d posit those consulting-style problem frameworks would have more real world value if one could summon them for use with any given situation without the paper/screen aid.
Might try that cognitive bias stack first! (Am already carrying BGM frameworks in my notebook)
I’ll admit my method is flawed, but the idea was closer to asking for something beyond what is expected without acting as if it is a huge request, treating it casually.
The “not saying please” thing struck me as a good method for ensuring it stayed casual but I can see that would probably come off as rude—politeness is surely a charachteristic of most productive behaviour.
I’m trying to work up a heuristic for dealing with this. For instance: if 2 minutes after consuming this product there is no benefit ,I mean ZERO benefit, avoid it. Like buying a soft drink over water—second I finish the can, I’ll probably forget I ever had the the thing and my body is worse off. Same for most sitcoms in my opinion.
Probably worth noting it gets messy easily. I know I should avoid video games for long term goals, but frankly I savour some victories for a while If the challenge was decent and it makes me happier for some time. But the problem here is I generally won’t know if the game was worth it until well after i’ve committed time and effort.
Mm. I’m afraid I still don’t have the karma and not able to write at the moment (sleep deprived). However I’m all for expanding the idea, and will calenderise a date within the week to sit down for a write up. Take the points back, I suppose I’ll PM you if this goes further.
I’ll remeber that limits of consent phrase...
Wait, you can “lend” karma?
Perhaps alternate exercises could include:
Attempt to obtain odd or ridiculous requests from service providers without saying “please”. I.e. Go to Mcdonalds and ask for “chips with no salt”. Lacks same impact as calcsam’s method though...
Better. Perhaps as an add on, how to get rid of junk profitably? Heuristics to identify you have something worth selling...
Wouldn’t arbitrage sensing be closer to spotting the difference between markets, or seeing the signs of an inefficient market? I don’t see how one could easily propose heuristics for a market’s direction as opposed to it’s position...
Should be worth noting that what I thought was the James squire brewhouse is the king street brewhouse, identifiable by numerous blue umbrellas with the blue tounge logo. I’m here now. Also, of anyone could confirm the existence of the “James squire brewhouse, I would be interested.