February 2016 – PUTANUMONIT
4 posts published by Jacob Falkovich during February 2016| PUTANUMONIT
I grew as a generalist from a small office to a 10-figure acquisition. Hire me and we'll do it again.| PUTANUMONIT
Going full-time on Putanumonit's favorite topic.| PUTANUMONIT
Everyone wants to date someone impressive, but focusing on impressiveness in dating is perfectly useless.| PUTANUMONIT
A review of what is in Tim Urban's book on politics, and what very conspicuously isn't.| PUTANUMONIT
People look for partners to build families with, but pick partners based on how entertaining they are after a few drinks. Both have value, but these are very different relationships.| PUTANUMONIT
You are a random sample of short experience-generating strings, and the crazy thing about it is that it's all less crazy than it sounds.| PUTANUMONIT
Women are hot to seduce men. This is both plainly true and paradoxically contradicted everywhere men look at women. So what is actually going on?| PUTANUMONIT
Documenting the rise of date-me docs and the decline of resultant dating| PUTANUMONIT
Awareness of your own uncertainty requires consciousness, and some claim that this awareness is present in rats. Are rats smarter than we thought, or is it the humans that are dumber?| PUTANUMONIT
Whales are queering the fish-mammal binary| PUTANUMONIT
Why Elden Ring is great, and how not to die binomially.| PUTANUMONIT
A relationship must sacrifice exclusivity or sacrifice for the sake of exclusivity. Simply feeling entitled to it is a recipe for failure.| PUTANUMONIT
Looking for a middle ground between the hard upsides of blogging and the easy downsides of tweeting.| PUTANUMONIT
Humans think in concepts and perceive ourselves living in physical reality, but babies aren't born doing either. We learn these things slowly, and not by reading. So who will teach them to GPT?| PUTANUMONIT
What if you just modeled your partner well enough to do what they would want without needing to ask? And what if you tried this from the first date?| PUTANUMONIT
In a world of conflict between men and women, consent negotiation is required. But the focus on consent to the exclusion of everything else is what brought this world about.| PUTANUMONIT
The NYT calls an end to sex-positivity blaming the patriarchy, and the trads agree while blaming the women. But I wouldn't give up on the opposite sex just yet.| PUTANUMONIT
Beginners need explicit rules, masters need to forget them. I propose a general model of learning, ask you not to “be yourself”, speculate on AI, and teach you how to crush it on Twitte…| PUTANUMONIT
All the dating stories from my previous life that somehow managed not to crush my optimism about romance.| PUTANUMONIT
My journey to finding love using science and data. Part 1 – how to own online dating.| PUTANUMONIT
Everyone complains that dating isn’t working, but no one want to put the work into dating. Here are 10 reasons why.| PUTANUMONIT
Philosophers have long explained why science could never explain consciousness. Thankfully, science didn’t listen.| PUTANUMONIT
