I’ve told a lot of people this story over the years. Mostly whilst drunk. The responses are usually pretty similar – hilarity, incredulity and just a little bit of “There but for the grace of god go I” style sympathy. I’ve had multiple requests to write it up, so I’ve finally acquiesced.| David R. MacIver
This is a system I only somewhat tongue in cheek refer to as “The Fully General System For Learning To Do Hard Things”. It’s a useful conceptual framework for how to get better at things that you currently find difficult. | David R. MacIver
For the moment, this blog is on indefinite hiatus. I intend to return at some point and continue to use this as a place to write more fully formed essays, but right now I’m doing my writing elsewhere.| David R. MacIver
Public speaking is a great skill, and one that I strongly recommend people develop. The ability to get up in front of a crowd and speak to them is surprisingly useful in its own right, and besides teaches you a lot about communication and confidence.| David R. MacIver
Before I get on to the main point of this post, let me ask you a question: when reading a piece someone wrote, does it matter if there use of language conforms to the rules of grammar your used to, or is it acceptable if their writing an they’re own dialect?| David R. MacIver
This post is going to explain a couple of things that I often see people getting confused about. If you’ve got any background in statistics, decision theory, or similar it may be quite obvious to you – this post is for everyone else.| David R. MacIver
Disclaimer: I’m not a therapist, or any sort of expert on this. I just read a lot of books and have been working on it myself, and this is a distillation of some of that work. You should probably think about seeing a therapist if you need help with this.| David R. MacIver
Let me tell you some stories.| David R. MacIver
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