Raj Thimmiah
For health reasons, my sleep is consistently bad. I can still get around 2-3 hours of work done in the morning and another 2-3 in the evening but I have a lot of time where I’m just tired and don’t want to do anything too intellectually stimulating.
Any recommendations on good filler activities?
I just moved to Berkeley so fairly often I can go to a meetup of some sort in the evening. But the mornings are harder to fill. When I get myself to, walking around works fairly well (I’m finding it a lot harder now than when I was in Japan since in Japan I just didn’t buy food in advance so I’d have to go outside around 11 am). This isn’t really enough alone to cover the 3-4 hours between doing work and taking my nap though.
Activities that I’ve considered:
-reading: if I get hooked on the right book, this definitely works. I’m struggling to start reading books though.
-video games: these would likely work but I’m nervous about getting addicted and not getting anything done
Does anyone else struggle with rejection sensitivity dysphoria (common in people that have ADHD)? It’s gotten better for me over time as I understand myself better but it’s still a big problem and I’m not sure how to go about dealing with it
Just found a discord group: https://discord.gg/5YMECT7yEn
and a facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/566160007909175.
that were created right after the ACX meetup
Where are SF/Berkeley area events usually coordinated? (going to hopefully be living in the area)
I tried to look for a facebook group but didn’t have too much luck
Has anyone considered a way of using a variation of an electrolarynx + voice to text to enable some method of using voice to text without needing to actually speak out loud?
(I know electrolarynxes produce noise but I get the impression some variation could be much quieter than normal speech and still work)
I would also be interested in an explanation of how the replication crisis effects the sequences and willing to put in 10$ to givewell
For those that don’t know, according to Scott’s email on ACX meetups he should be attending!
For people that have read Ray Dalio’s Principles: how did you apply the book to reality?
Specifically, how did you write out principles and actually check and iterate on them over time?
Any suggestions on decent online universities? I’ve decided to move back to the US from abroad without finishing my degree but my parents still want me to get some sort of degree for long-term employability (ruling out bootcamps unless I can make a really convincing argument).
I’m trying to optimize for:
-not too time consuming: I want to spend most of my time on side-projects of my own interest
-not too expensive: don’t want to burn money
-marginally useful/interesting: will be less hard to complete if it feels actually usefulhttps://www.snhu.edu/online-degrees/associate/as-in-computer-science was suggested to me and is likely what I’d do as a baseline option.
Thanks, this is helpful. From this I have an idea of what I’ll try
I have a journal template I’m going to start using today
will add a daily recurring section of TAPs I want to implement and pay attention to (maybe to be added to each Sunday?)
for long-term TAPs, I’ll try a coda SRS template (I use SuperMemo normally but can’t use it for this since the algorithm is too good and on 3rd rep I’ve seen cards get to like 2 month intervals. wouldn’t work well for checking on my TAPs)
I’ll report back next Sunday how it goes.
How many TAPs do you currently have?
[Question] What’s your personal TAP setup?
What breathing techniques do you use?
I’m 65% moving back to us in a month or two but haven’t lived there in like 5 years so am not sure what to expect nor where I’d like to go.
I’m mainly optimizing for friend-making/having/meeting (IRL) though I’m not sure how much I care about that since I haven’t had much chance to do that for the last few years. though also trees and stuff are nice too
I’m not really sure how to choose between cities in terms of satisfying this. vaguely seems like SF would be cool and have many cool people that would be nice to meet but is also expensive
Any recommendations on figuring out where to stay?
I’ve thought about that but my main concern is: I’ll probably move back at some point. I’m not particularly benefitting from living here except for the inertia of already being here and having an apartment.
I could have made more friends at college but I made a decision I somewhat regret now: took only classes where I could just do them online instead of having to go live. The first semester or two where I was showing up in person, did have some luck making friends. Because of the virus, there aren’t many (if any) events being held at uni I can attend to meet people so I’d basically have to wait for next semester I think.
I also sort of suffer from the issue that I kind of want friends that are interesting. I don’t hate just hanging out with people but at some level if it feels empty of value it eats at me. This is part of why I’m interested in going to the US: seems like it’d be easier to find rationalists/interesting people to hang out with rather than limited subset of english speakers around.
In a more general vein, what are your plans for the future? You list many important considerations for your present situation, but without much focus on how they’ll affect you later.
I’m interested in something amongst: (helping people do) effective learning, UI/UX design, entrepreneurship, working on cool projects. I don’t really think any of these benefit at all from being in Japan now that I think about it, I have only 1 friend that somewhat overlaps with these interests. Looking back, when I lived in Korea and had friends that had similar-ish productivity interests I did find the environment really valuable.
The main cost is then having to re-apply to university and either having to actually go through with it or finding some alternative to live off of before having to actually enter again. This is what sort of scares me, am really not big on uni, have plenty of other things I’d want to spend my time on.
How important are real social networks? I’m debating on moving back to the US from Japan pro’s and cons being:
Japan:
Pro:
-university is easy
-is cheap
-have nice apartment and setup
-corona situation is way better than in the US
-health care is cheap and goodCons:
-very few friends (can probably change this next semester. can maybe change it this semester if I make a real effort to go to meetups. But will be hard, since is hard in general here to make friends and I’m not currently studying towards native level Japanese)US:
Pro:
-can probably make many friends
-can talk to many more peopleCons:
-would need to re-apply to university
-university is expensive
-moving will be expensive
-apartment expensive depending on where I go
-healthcare not cheap nor good
-corona stuff not goodIt all really comes down to: is it worth it to have more friends IRL? When I had more friends in the past and did coworking or just hanging out it was a lot of fun and I kind of miss that. It feels like the answer is thus yes even when a bunch of other things look like they’d suck.
[Question] How do you solicit feedback effectively?
Do any of you have systems you’ve used to test out which diet you find best for yourself?
I’m also curious: how did you manage confounders such as life changes/sleep and other things
you might find exercise 3 useful if your issue is sleep procrastination. I had to slowly block alllllll kinds of things incrementally till I stopped screwing up my sleep
I’ll try this. Need to find some addicting audiobooks, would make it pretty trivial to spend much of morning outside.