Most people don't give very good advice. Here is my advice on how to give better advice.| drmaciver.substack.com
Context: I keep promising that I’m going to write a blog post about explaining things and I’ve tried three times, but it keeps getting unwieldy, so this is an attempt at a short blog post about how to explain things.| David R. MacIver
Practical wisdom is the quality of knowing what to do is in a particular practical contexts. We all have some of it, and we could all benefit from learning more of it. I talk about how this newsletter is primarily a place where I try to teach practical wisdom, and provide some theory of how it works and how to get better at it.| drmaciver.substack.com
It's easier to become good at restricted ways of interacting with the world than it is to grasp it in its full complexity. This is fine and good, but sometimes leads to limiting conceptions of the world that we need to be able to break out of.| drmaciver.substack.com