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A long red light
Some thrown together life updates on a train ride to Manhattan
Nov 25
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September 2023
Willamette, Revisited
There’s this river near my house called the Willamette. In high school, this was my “third location”. I had my house. I had my school. And everything…
Sep 6
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August 2023
Play it in your head.
(How to stop wasting your life watching stupid YouTube videos) A lot of people I know struggle with social media addictions. Here’s a strategy that I…
Aug 6
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April 2023
One thing I really really like about blogging
I realize it's been a while. This one will be short, as it is late, and I decided to start writing it while I was halfway through another post that I…
Apr 20
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March 2023
When2Meet
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Mar 16
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A lighthouse of competence in a sea of mediocrity
I posted something yesterday that's been bugging me. It's a post called "The Merits of Mediocrity", and it more or less covered the points you'd expect…
Mar 12
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The merits of mediocrity
*EDIT: I hate this post, but I'm gonna leave it up for posterity's sake. If you're gonna read it, please also read my response, A lighthouse of…
Mar 11
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Ode to Objects
My recent exposure to the EA/Rationality memeplex has given me a lot of new great words. One has been "agentic", which I used as a prompt for my first…
Mar 11
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Ode to Objects
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Class Shopping
Here was my class schedule for the first week of the semester. This post is about giving my brief takeaways from all these classes, in a style similar…
Mar 11
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500 sleepless hours
It is currently 4:02 AM, and I have three problems sets to finish between now and 5pm. Due to this inherent constraint, this post will have to be brief…
Mar 3
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February 2023
How to be cool, this semester specifically
This is a continuation of the more meta-level post title titled "How to be cool". I'm a firm disbeliever in "set and forget" systems of planning; no…
Feb 9
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How to be cool
I got really into Effective Altruism last semester. As a result of this, I became obsessed with the idea of optimizing for positive social impact. Due…
Feb 9
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