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Journaling.md

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     - What did you do this week that was a mistake and how can I avoid repeating it?
   - What would you like to accomplish next week?
     - Do you need to clarify something?
-    - Which actions will you move closer to your [[goals]]?
+    - Which actions will you move closer to your [[goals]]?

Learning.md

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 - When discovering a pattern, try to abstract it as much as you can instead of applying it only to a certain area. Once you made this abstraction you will have a new [[Mental Models | mental model]].
 - Learning to program shapes the mind the same way learning a new language does. Each new word, concept or expression helps you model the world.
 - Use [[Spaced Repetition]] and get some [[Sleep]].
-- [Test your knowledge easily and often and iterate](https://youtu.be/Y_B6VADhY84?list=WL). It's the number of iterations, not the number of hours, that drives learning. Shorten the [[Feedback Loops]]. You don't need to know everything to start. Start and you'll learn things along the way (Just In Time /JIT learning). 
+- [Test your knowledge easily and often and iterate](https://youtu.be/Y_B6VADhY84?list=WL). It's the number of iterations, not the number of hours, that drives learning. Shorten the [[Feedback Loops]]. You don't need to know everything to start. Start and you'll learn things along the way (Just In Time /JIT learning).
 - Develop strategies instead of procedures. Do this by interleaving different problems. Learning to learn is an art in itself.
 - One of the most important things to encourage in the early stages of a new skill is the development of good form. Once you have it, trying harder works, whereas if you don't have it, trying harder just leads to a lot of frustration and discouragement. And of course, if you have bad [[Habits]] right from the start, they're only going to get harder and harder to fix as you ingrain them through practice.
 - Most knowledge worth having comes from **practice**. It comes from **doing**. [It comes from **creating**](https://blog.tjcx.me/p/consume-less-create-more).
@@ -91,4 +91,4 @@ right in your browser.
   - [Reddit r/privacy  Wiki](https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/wiki/index) - Guide to becoming more secure online
   - [Privacy Tools](https://www.privacytools.io/) - Provides knowledge and tools to protect your privacy against global mass surveillance
   - [Switching Social](https://switching.social/) - Ethical, easy-to-use and privacy-conscious alternatives to multiple tools
-- [Track Awesome List](https://www.trackawesomelist.com/). Track [awesome](https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome) lists about all kinds of interesting topics.
+- [Track Awesome List](https://www.trackawesomelist.com/). Track [awesome](https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome) lists about all kinds of interesting topics.

Life Advice.md

@@ -22,4 +22,4 @@ If you listen to successful people talk about their approaches, remember that al
 - [68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice](https://kk.org/thetechnium/68-bits-of-unsolicited-advice/) and [99 Additional Bits of Unsolicited Advice](https://kk.org/thetechnium/99-additional-bits-of-unsolicited-advice/).
 - [How to build a great life](https://mobile.twitter.com/Camp4/status/1402689150353129472).
 - [How to Be Happy](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZbgCx2ntD5eu8Cno9/how-to-be-happy).
-- [Be Happier](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/JHcTP4Ad8QAmRTCZm/be-happier).
+- [Be Happier](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/JHcTP4Ad8QAmRTCZm/be-happier).

Life Areas.md

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 9. [[Relationships]]. Are you meeting new people? Are you taking care of people you love? Are you maintaining your friendships?
 10. Emotions. What is your general feeling about life? Are you aware of your emotions as they are happening? How do you rate in terms of integrity, honesty, courage, etc.?
 11. [[Productivity]] and organization. Do you act effectively? Are you organized? When you need a piece of information, how easily can you find it?
-12. Fun and adventure. Are you experiencing what you want to experience? Are you enjoying life? Are you doing things for fun? Do you have any creative pursuits?
+12. Fun and adventure. Are you experiencing what you want to experience? Are you enjoying life? Are you doing things for fun? Do you have any creative pursuits?

Life's Most Common Regrets.md

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 2. I wish I didn't work so hard.
 3. I wish I'd had the courage to [[Openness | express my feelings]].
 4. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.
-5. I wish that I had let myself be happier.
+5. I wish that I had let myself be happier.

Listening.md

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 - While listening to someone sharing a problem keep asking them "Is there more?", until there is no more. Create space for the other person to continue talking. This is called [reflecting](https://programs.clearerthinking.org/become_a_great_listener.html) and simply means repeating back a word or phrase to encourage the other person to go on.
 - Use open questions more. Open questions are any questions that cannot be answered with a simple _yes_ or _no_ reply.
 - When you are feeling confused, do a small summary to make sure you didn't miss anything important.
-- Giving someone an opportunity to clarifying their emotions and thoughts, or to delve deeper into a certain topic, is one way you can help them process and understand their feelings about a situation.
+- Giving someone an opportunity to clarifying their emotions and thoughts, or to delve deeper into a certain topic, is one way you can help them process and understand their feelings about a situation.

Making Decisions.md

@@ -12,13 +12,13 @@ Decision making is the process we use to identify and choose alternatives, produ
   1. Irreversible and inconsequential.
   2. Irreversible and consequential. These are the ones that you really need to focus on. Irreversible decisions tend to have a long lag time from decision to feedback, and are often more consequential. They must be dealt by [becoming **more creative, having more slack, being more equanimous, and pruning more efficiently**.](https://brianlui.dog/2020/05/10/beware-of-tight-feedback-loops/)
   3. Reversible and inconsequential
-  4. Reversible and consequential. Perfect decisions to run experiments and gather information. Reversible actions can be stopped if they turn out to be bad, and tend to work well with tight [[Feedback Loops]]. 
+  4. Reversible and consequential. Perfect decisions to run experiments and gather information. Reversible actions can be stopped if they turn out to be bad, and tend to work well with tight [[Feedback Loops]].
 - Realize that the possibility space is much bigger than you initially think. Take some distance and see the decision through different lenses.
 - How un-doable is a decision? If an idea is fully un-doable, make it as quickly as you can. When a decision is something that you can't take back, then it's worth really, really understanding. **Aim for preserving optionality**.
 - To maximize your long-term happiness, prioritize the projects you'd most regret not having pursued by the time you're old and looking back at your life.
 - Gather all the information you can. Then, schedule [[time]] to think deeply about it. Brain-dump your thoughts on the problem - what's going wrong, why is it inefficient? Try to understand it in as much detail as possible.
   - Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
-  - Remember that too much information increases confidence not accuracy. Share all the information with other stakeholders. [[Openness | Transparency]] is key for group decisions. 
+  - Remember that too much information increases confidence not accuracy. Share all the information with other stakeholders. [[Openness | Transparency]] is key for group decisions.
   - Most decisions should probably be made with somewhere around 70% of the information you wish you had. If you wait for 90%, in most cases, you're probably being slow.
 - [The fog of the future hides vital information](https://youtu.be/SVmEXdGqO-s).
 - If all options are similar take the harder one in the short term (_Hard decisions easy life, easy decisions, hard life_).
@@ -44,12 +44,12 @@ Decision making is the process we use to identify and choose alternatives, produ
 - People reason more wisely about other people's problems than about their own.
 - When you share something, add the level of confidence you have on it.
 - [Understand your personal stance on the trade-off of compromise versus purity](https://vitalik.ca/general/2020/11/08/concave.html). Given a choice between two alternatives, often both expressed as deep principled philosophies, do you naturally gravitate toward the idea that one of the two paths should be correct and we should stick to it, or do you prefer to find a way in the middle between the two extremes?
-- [It's often not _how much force_ you can bring to bear, so much as whether you can apply that force _effectively](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/rQKstXH8ZMAdN5iqD/concentration-of-force)_. 
+- [It's often not _how much force_ you can bring to bear, so much as whether you can apply that force _effectively](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/rQKstXH8ZMAdN5iqD/concentration-of-force)_.
 
 ![](https://miro.medium.com/max/700/1*9H9letDTBO0IvuGbYN4x6A.png)
 
 ## Framework
-A decision making framework is only needed when there is lack of clarity about a decision that is higher risk. Higher risk can mean that the decision has long term implications or that it can be costly to unwind if the wrong decision is made. 
+A decision making framework is only needed when there is lack of clarity about a decision that is higher risk. Higher risk can mean that the decision has long term implications or that it can be costly to unwind if the wrong decision is made.
 
 This is [how to make decisions](https://barmstrong.medium.com/how-we-make-decisions-at-coinbase-cd6c630322e9).
 
@@ -59,4 +59,4 @@ This is [how to make decisions](https://barmstrong.medium.com/how-we-make-decisi
 4. Present data and consider the alternatives. Do enough research to have a few solid alternatives. Once you understand what's going wrong, think about what behavior/environment changes could be that would lead to better outcomes
 5. Identify the best alternative. See which alternative makes most sense based on your criteria.
 6. Develop and implement a plan of action. Act on that decision. Figure out which action changes, and what concrete things should trigger them - make it something that will actually work in the moment, and can be implemented
-7. Evaluate the solution. In order to make better decisions over time, examine the outcomes and the feedback you get. The evaluation should be made [without taking account the outcome](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outcome_bias) since it wasn't known at decision time.
+7. Evaluate the solution. In order to make better decisions over time, examine the outcomes and the feedback you get. The evaluation should be made [without taking account the outcome](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outcome_bias) since it wasn't known at decision time.

Meditation.md

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   1. Find a comfortable place to sit, and a posture that is both alert and relaxed at the same time. See if you can make the spine erect, without being too rigid.
   2. Close your eyes (or leave them slightly open if you prefer), and take a few slow breaths. Take a few moments to loosen your body from your head to your toes, and take a few more deep breaths. Scan your body to see if you can find any other tension that you can release.
   3. Stop to notice the sensations throughout your body — the warmth, the coolness or any discomfort. Be aware of them, but try not to fidget too much.
-  4. Keep your attention on your breath. Your mind will wander. Notice it whenever it happens, congratulate yourself for having noticed it, and then return to the breath. After a few moments, your mind may wander again. Once again, notice that and simply return your attention back to the present moment.
+  4. Keep your attention on your breath. Your mind will wander. Notice it whenever it happens, congratulate yourself for having noticed it, and then return to the breath. After a few moments, your mind may wander again. Once again, notice that and simply return your attention back to the present moment.

Meetings.md

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 - How the product is being received in the market.
 - How the most important customers are succeeding (or not) using the product.
 - How the team is performing and any people changes needed.
-- Financial position of the company and review of metrics.
+- Financial position of the company and review of metrics.

Mental Health.md

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 There are many reasons folks feel [helplessly blankness](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/puhPJimawPuNZ5wAR/learned-blankness) about understanding a given topic, including:
 1. Simple habit. You are not used to thinking about it; and so you just automatically don’t.
 2. Desire to avoid initial blunders that will force you to emotionally confront potential incompetence (as with my fear of writing fiction);
-3. Avoidance of social conflict, or of status-claims; if your boss/friends/whoever will be upset by your disagreement, it may be more comfortable to “[not understand](https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/11/30/salary)” the domain. 
+3. Avoidance of social conflict, or of status-claims; if your boss/friends/whoever will be upset by your disagreement, it may be more comfortable to “[not understand](https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/11/30/salary)” the domain.
 
-If you’d like to reduce your learned blankness, try to [notice areas you care about, that you have been treating as blank defaults](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/puhPJimawPuNZ5wAR/learned-blankness#Notice_your_learned_blankness). Then, seed some thoughts in that area: set a timer, and write as many questions as you can about that topic before it beeps. 
+If you’d like to reduce your learned blankness, try to [notice areas you care about, that you have been treating as blank defaults](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/puhPJimawPuNZ5wAR/learned-blankness#Notice_your_learned_blankness). Then, seed some thoughts in that area: set a timer, and write as many questions as you can about that topic before it beeps.
 
 Aversions are [[Problem Solving | decomposable problems]]. Break it down into
 smaller pieces so that you can think about them separately one at a time and
-solve them. 
+solve them.

Mental Models.md

@@ -13,4 +13,4 @@ A mental model is a thought process about how something works in the real world.
 - [The Big Mental Models](https://jamesclear.com/mental-models)
 - [Julian Spahiro's Mental Models](https://www.julian.com/blog/mental-model-examples)
 - [Mental models for designers](https://dropbox.design/article/mental-models-for-designers)
-- [Mental Models Box](https://www.mentalmodelsbox.com/explore)
+- [Mental Models Box](https://www.mentalmodelsbox.com/explore)