This has been a long time coming, but I have been working on a new blog! It lives here. While I’ll leave this site up as an archive, all new posts will be put on the new mlu.red site in the f…| mindlevelup
[See also: On Giving Advice and Recognizing vs Generating] So this quarter, I’ve been tutoring for an undergraduate computer science course, and one interesting thing that I’ve revised is how I thi…| mindlevelup
[An overview of why I didn’t write as much in 2018. Aversions snowballed, and the blog format led to having expectations about content I found sometimes hard to satisfy. A look back at some of my f…| mindlevelup
[Because people are predisposed to give others good impressions, when our relationships deepen, it’s more likely that we’ll have to revise our initial “perfect” models of the other person. For the …| mindlevelup
[Communication is a lot like a game of telephone. Information needs to flow from your head to the the medium to the other person to the other person’s head. As a result, there are lots of pla…| mindlevelup
I’ve been working on a static site generator that gives me a lot more control over the formatting and stylings. My current plan is to keep putting polished essays here on MLU and use the shor…| mindlevelup
I have not written many new blog posts this year. This is disappointing for me; I wish I had converted more time and thoughts into blog posts. For two years, like magic, a new mindlevelup post woul…| mindlevelup
I’ve been pretty confused lately about trying to think about how seriously I should be interpreting literary things. Or, not exactly literary things, but more like “life philosophies”. What I’m try…| mindlevelup
[When exposed to the same stimulus over and over, our response becomes dulled. This is often referred when someone says the “novelty faded”. Despite having strong evolutionary roots, I …| mindlevelup
[I’m trying to resolve confusions I have brought on when I realize that people forget most of what they learn by default. Yet we still seem to get better at things. I bring up a model of passively …| mindlevelup