Blog

Blog

On self-reward shaping

  • 3 min read

In this post, I’ll share some informal thoughts about the “self-reward shaping”, i.e. doing things in order to have more rewarding experiences of behaviour which helps to achieve one’s goals.

Read More

Needs v. preferences

  • 6 min read

I think that treating needs and preferences as two different kinds of human desire facilites more understanding and compassionate decision making. In this post, I’ll explain why.

Read More

How to read a book

  • 2 min read

When reading non-fiction, I’d never had a very clear sense of what I’m optimizing for. Sure, I probably wanted some combination of information, retention and enjoyment. But I’d never translated those high-level goals into a more concrete or measurable target. Accordingly, it had never really occurred to me that perhaps I could optimize better for what I want.

Read More