📝 Alex's scrapbook

        • "Shut up and write" session 1 - 2025-10-27
        • "Shut up and write" session 2 - 2025-11-03
        • 01. To be a boomer
        • 02. Don't be overwhelmed!
        • 03. To be a tpot zoomer
        • 04. It flows, if you let it
        • 05. Hospital cafe
        • 06. Cornflakes
        • 07. Travel day
        • 08. Morning by the pool
        • 09. Hill
        • 10. After "Ship It Week"
        • 11. Balcony
        • 12. Misery
        • 13. I don't know yet
        • 14. Gold prospecting
        • I hear you got some nice feedback today
        • Poetry with Jonathan
        • Writing - not good
        • Writing - Substack
        • Writing - vignettes
        • Cornflakes song 2025-09-09
        • Fade to memory (song) 2025-09-11
        • Golden Line - Lyrics
          • Cliches are banal vs cliches signify profound truths
          • David Foster Wallace (parent page)
          • David Foster Wallace Audio Project
          • Manufacturing Intellect (youtube channel)
          • My DFW Journey
          • Oblivion
          • The End of the Tour
          • What "This is Water" means to me
          • Why do I love DFW's fiction so much?
        • 2025-09-08 song ("I Mind")
        • 2025-09-10 what should I do differently, ChatGPT?
        • Addicted to this new Hayley Williams music video
        • Archiving older things
        • Back to writing daily - quick Berlin retrospective and where I'm at now
        • Era 1 of making music and youtube videos
        • Expressive Mode vs Communicative Mode
        • I never got why DFW wanted to be a fiction writer
        • I want to make good stuff now - 2025-09-04
        • Mansplaining David Foster Wallace 2025-09-02
        • Meta - about "writing more!"
        • Morning Pages
        • Morning pages or something, 2025-09-02
        • Music making log (era 2)
        • On being a naive, untrained writer
        • On fiction (parent page)
        • What could the Alexnaissance look like?
        • What help do I want from Sasha Chapin re writing etc?
        • Writing - zero pressure at all
        • Writing from the POV of "parts"
        • Youtube comments
        • 06. Cornflakes - appendix
        • To be a boomer - appendix
        • Tpot zoomer appendix
        • I am Nuclear Fusion Alex now (2025-05-11)
        • I have a youtube channel now! (2024-11-08)
        • Launching consensus-ism coaching! (2024-06-06)
        • No consensus to write anymore! (2023-11-02)
        • On being "in-group" - tpot vs EA - 2025-06-03
        • Paper journalling is better, actually (2023-07-07)
        • The shame post - 2025-05-30
        • The stories we tell about ourselves (2025-05-13)
        • Why I needed consensus-ism so desperately (2023-07-14)
      • Creating things (parent page)
      • On stuff that I love (parent page)
      • Writing more! (Parent page)
        • Feedback, references
        • Post-it notes from the hippy retreat
        • "Live Near Friends" movement
        • Alex & Simmo group house in London, kick-off page
        • Alex and Simmo group house, parent page
        • Do we make an odd pair? 2025-08-31
        • Estimated London costs
        • Friendship
        • Gathering what people shipped at Ship It Week
        • It's possible that community could obviously be the thing for me (2025-08-28)
        • London vs Oxford for a group house
        • Max aura
        • Misc thoughts on living at the EA Hotel 2025-10-24
        • Monday, third time living at the Effective Altruism hotel (2025-10-20)
        • Nihilism slash dissociation at the hippy retreat
        • Ship It Week log
        • Ship It Week, day 1 retro
        • Ship It Week, day 2 retro
        • Ship It Week, day 3 retro
        • Should I value in-person connection highly? (first pass)
        • Should we do the Fractal Campus accelerator?
        • Tweets about the importance of community
        • What am I doing at Ship It Week? 2025-08-30
        • What if we founded "Fractal Oxford"?
        • What is Circling and why do I like it?
        • What is next for me after living at my mum's? day 1
        • What is Ship It Week? (2025-08-20)
        • What turning 29 means in Chinese culture (according to Gemini)
      • On connecting with people more
            • “'Handle your feelings about the task' is the zeroth item on any todo list"
            • 2025-07-22 meditation open questions
            • Airpods are kind of insidious
            • Ānāpānasati (Anapanasati)
            • Fetters work 2025-08-23
            • Following aliveness
            • Going with the flow, consensus-ism, jesus take the wheel
            • I think I've solved "how do I meditate regularly"?
            • Meditation log
            • My podcast journey
            • Phase 1 of "healing" is complete
            • Sasha Chapin open awareness
            • Should I pay Michael Stroe to help me break aversion?
            • Simone Weil, David Foster Wallace, the Buddha
            • Skillful vs Unskillful Mind
            • The fetters model
            • Tpot, post-rationalism
            • Visual deconstruction via eye gazing and verbal debugging
            • Weakening fetters 4 and 5
            • Sit 000 report
            • Sit 001 report
            • Sit 002 report
            • Sit 003 report
            • Sit 004 report
            • Sit 005 report
            • Sit 006 report
            • Sit 007 report
            • Sit 008 report
            • Sit 009 report
            • Sit 010 report
            • Sit 011 report
            • Switching to open awareness practice 2025-08-08 (sit 010)
          • Increasing the skillfulness of my mind, log 🪵
          • Kensho
          • Meditation parent page
          • Paper notebook
        • Ideal Parent Figure Protocol
        • Ideal Parent Figure Protocol is clearly the thing actually
        • Consensus-ism coaching - what's in it for me? 2025-11-04
        • Consensus-ism index
          • Bowen family systems - flashcards
          • Call with my friend "S" - 2025-06-23
          • Call with my friend "S" - 2025-06-23 1
          • Call with my friend "S" - 2025-06-23 2
          • Current family project open questions
          • Going to family therapy with my mum!
          • Helping family - open questions
          • I saw a family therapist yesterday
          • Is it unethical to take my mum to family therapy?
          • It's my Dad's birthday today
          • Learning about adoption in the UK
          • Learning about ozempic
          • Meta - about the "how can I help my family" project
          • Meta - about the "how can I help my family" project 1
          • Meta - about the "how can I help my family" project 2
          • Meta - about the "how can I help my family" project 3
          • Microsolidarity crew call 2025-06-25
          • Microsolidarity crew call 2025-06-25 1
          • Microsolidarity crew call 2025-06-25 2
          • Microsolidarity crew call 2025-06-25 3
          • NVC flashcards
          • Other people working on the "parents as spiritual practice" thing
          • Starting "Growing Yourself Up - How to Bring Your Best to All of Life's Relationships
          • The ACES study
          • Visual metaphors for the "how can I help my family" project
          • Visual metaphors for the "how can I help my family" project 1
          • Visual metaphors for the "how can I help my family" project 2
          • Visual metaphors for the "how can I help my family" project 3
          • What I currently know about Bowen family systems theory
        • "How can I change how to orient to my family?" (Open Question)
        • "How do I look after my body?"
        • Workout log
            • Model of "Centre for Effective Altruism"
            • Model of FRI
            • Why work for FRI
            • 🧪 Pandemic Action Network
            • Gathering PAN slash global health open questions
            • Global Health flashcards from day 3
            • Global Health flashcards from day 4
            • PAN orientation, day 3
            • PAN top-down model, day 2
            • Twitch stream 2025-06-27 - reading a report and making flashcards
            • Twitch stream 2025-06-27 - reviewing WHO and COVID response flashcards
            • Twitch stream 2025-06-28 - Top-down model of Pandemic Action Network
            • Why work at Pandemic Action Network?
          • Aha, maybe I'm a "professional meta-cognitionist", lol
          • Do I want to do a call with Happier?
          • Excited to be employed as a (self-described) Kegan 4
          • FRI (Parent Page)
          • Gemini Socrates - Outcapped
          • Handling my feelings about doing an FRI work test
          • I am now making money!
          • Money is a solved issue
          • My July 2025 spending
          • Preparing for post-job application feedback call
          • Setting a contractor fee for Outcapped
          • What actually is the FRI role?
          • Working with Rob at Outcapped, parent page
        • "How should I make money?" (Open Question)
        • Making money - log 🪵
        • I'm locking in some deliverables!
        • Imagining that my "open questions" are actually solved by prediction markets of experts, 2025-08-23
        • My relationship with making Youtube videos, 2025-08-23
        • My relationship with Twitter and tweeting, 2025-08-23
        • My relationship with writing on Substack, 2025-08-23
        • Ridiculousness audit 2025-08-23
        • Ridiculousness audits
        • The state of my "network of people working on the same stuff", 2025-08-23
        • The state of my in-person community, 2025-08-23
      • "How can I improve the quality of my lived experience?"
              • Ancient Greece
                • America & Immigration
                • AOC tweet re Andrew Cuomo
                • Israel
                • Israel & Iran (session 1)
                • Israel & Iran (session 2)
                • Israel & Iran (session 3)
                • Israel & Iran (session 4)
              • Day 1 of trying to engage people on twitter via alt account
            • Anki
            • Bottom-up learning
            • Fluency
            • Gemini Deep Research
            • Hermeneutic circle, hermeneutic spiral
            • Lemon tree → lemon curd → lemon pie 🍋
            • My "make flashcards for me" prompt for AI
            • Popperian truth
            • Tacit knowledge videos
            • The Consume-Create Ratio
            • Top-down learning
            • Top-down learning unlocks care (and ego)
            • Why an Obsidian-based website?
            • 01. Writing up my own Socratic dialogues
            • Collection of voice notes
            • Learning Twitch Streams
            • 🟣 Project - "Are visual notes underrated and poorly understood?"
            • Are visual notes underrated and poorly understood?
            • Progressive iteration of visual notes - Pandemic Action Network examples
            • Visual notes are a form of active learning
        • "How can I learn effectively?"
        • AI walk-and-talks are such a great way to learn (2025-06-01)
        • Daily progress updates, streaks
        • I love you Gemini Deep Research
        • Learning to think the Defender of Basic way
        • My learning funnel (2025-05-27)
        • My learning journey
        • New learning era (?) (2025-06-13)
        • Reading fiction to gain non-propositional knowledge
        • The Anki FSRS algorithm made me weep (2025-05-30)
          • July 2025 review
          • Life Reviews
          • Week of 14th July 2025
          • Week of 21st July 2025
          • Example dialogue, 2025-07-02
        • 02. Book list re learning how to think
        • 03. Manifesto - "Why I Should Learn the Socratic Method"
        • 04. Path to becoming Socratic (AKA, what I don't know yet)
        • 05. Learning the Socratic method, part 1 → the rationale (WIP)
        • 06. Learning the Socratic method, part 1 → the rationale
        • 07. Learning the Socratic method, part 2 → the "how"
        • 08. Enneagram 3 thinking sins
        • 09. I'm not good at the elenchus yet (2025-07-06)
        • 10. Why thinking things through is aversive
        • 11. Manifesto - "Time to re-assess full-time vs part-time work"
        • Alex's Obsidian Guide
        • Amusing Ourselves to Death (read 1)
        • Anticipatio Mentis
        • Aporia
        • Ask dumb questions
        • Basic "how to make new pages and stuff" Obsidian guide for Simmo
        • Care is the number 1 thing
        • Circumstantial luck
        • Collection and division
        • Constitutive luck
        • Dealing with overwhelm at work
        • Death Ground
        • Dialectic and Dialogue - Plato's Practice of Philosophical Inquiry (Gonzalez)
        • Digital Garden (Digital Orchard?)
        • Espanso
        • Examples of thinking in public
        • Formal Ontology
        • Formal Ontology - books
        • Gemini Socrates - part-time vs full-time work
        • Gilman Equation
        • How can I operate from a place of uncertainty?
        • How does a Quartz + Obsidian vault differ from a normal Obsidian vault?
        • How modern life keeps us unconscious and un-agentic
        • How much better do I really need to get at thinking?
        • How to construct the elenchus
        • How to make a website like this
        • How to think in a rigorous way
        • How to use the Socratic method with other people
        • I'm overwhelmed! 2025-08-20
        • I'm overwhelmed! 2025-08-28
        • Ignoti nulla cupido
        • ILC (Implicitly Leaving to Chance)
        • Interpretatio Naturae
        • Kegan 3
        • Kegan 4
        • Making a second Obsidian Vault (and retaining your settings, hotkeys, etc)
        • My goals, values as of January 2025
        • Obsidian Guide - Phase 1 - A pretty writing space
        • Obsidian Guide - Phase 2 - A slightly more intentional infrastructure
        • Obsidian Guide - Phase 3 - Small quality of life things
        • Obsidian hotkeys
        • Obsidian Publish vs Obsidian & Quartz
        • Obsidian third-party plugins
        • Old website intro
        • Personal values & "rationality" sprint, v2
        • Prepping for thinking tutor
        • Red-teaming working for Outcapped
        • Resisting the urge to switch to logic or rhetoric
        • RLC (Rejecting Leaving to Chance)
        • RLC as the Kegan 3 to Kegan 4 transition
        • Sasha Chapin post - disagreeableness is a part of sincerity
        • Second round of learning from Ward Farnworth's book on the Socratic method
        • Self-anthropology
        • Setting up Quartz if you already have an Obsidian setup
        • Should I follow some of the prescriptions of Bonesaw?
        • Should I meditate regularly?
        • Simone Weil
        • Superprof Philosophy, Ethics tutor
        • Superprof tutor lesson 1 (The Fundamental Decision)
        • Tactically clever, strategically stupid
        • The case for not associating with the Effective Altruism movement
        • The elenchus
        • The first half of the elenchus
        • The Kegan 3 to Kegan 4 transition
        • The second half of the elenchus
        • The terrible pedagogy of (Michael Kerr's version of) Bowen Family Systems Theory
        • The tyranny of the propositional
        • Theory of change for how writing your own Socratic dialogues "works"
        • Thomas Nagel's 4 types of moral luck
        • Transmissionism
        • Useful concepts and mental models (parent page)
        • Using LLMs
        • Vervaeke's 4 Ps of Knowledge
        • What does it mean to be a professional meta-cognitionist?
        • What is the elenchus?
        • Why am I publishing stuff semi-privately?
        • Why do I dislike my Dad's region of Spain so much?
        • Why doesn't transmissionism work?
        • Work with the garage door up
        • Writing public-facing manifestos, slash showing your thought process, seems powerful
        • Writing to explore ideas
        • Wyrd
            • My model of ORI, 2025-06-23
          • ORI idea - Problems are actually already solved
          • ORI idea - the universe (you're a cell inside an organism)
          • ORI update & open questions, 2025-08-05
        • "What does it mean to be in ORI?" (Open Question)
        • ORI idea - Destigmatise being dumb
        • The streetlight effect
      • "How can I improve my ability to think?" (Parent Page)
      • "Thinking In Public" log 🪵
        • Back to England for Christmas
        • Bangkok, Thailand
        • Barcelona, Spain
        • Era 15 - Asia
        • Era 16 - Back to Europe, Christmas at home
        • Era 17 - "Life Itself" intentional community -> Kensho
        • Era 18 - Divine Period (post-Kensho)
        • Era 19 - Arriving in Toronto
        • Era 20 - Toronto post-Jhourney retreat (the 5 Ms)
        • Era 21 - Making music & youtube videos at my mum's
        • Era 22 - EA Hotel round 2 - Rationality Sprint
        • Era 23 - job hunting at my mum's, family therapy
        • Era 24 - Spain → Oxford → Germany
        • Era 25 - EA Hotel round 3
        • Goenka vipassana meditation retreat in a jungle in Thailand
        • Manila, The Philippines
        • Return to Taipei
        • Taipei, Taiwan
        • Tirana, Albania
        • Aesthetics
        • Daily standups & end-of-day reviews
        • Disagreeableness arc (2025-10-27)
        • Human Design
        • Manifesting Generator
        • Morning pages 1 - on writing more
        • Not wanting to talk
        • On feedback
        • Personality typing systems
        • Suffering is fuel
        • The enneagram personality typing system
        • tpot
        • Twitter profile analysis via an app 2025-10-25
        • Enneagram 3
        • Enneagram 3w4 (The Expert, The Professional)
        • Gist updating
        • I was very lucky to be born into my body
        • I was very lucky to be so lovable
        • I was very lucky to enjoy every life era
        • I was very lucky to have a family who loved me a lot
        • I was very lucky to have a lovely girlfriend from 15 to 26
        • I was very lucky to have been passionate, opinionated and proactive
        • I was very lucky to have had the home life I did
        • I was very lucky to have my life arc
        • I was very lucky to have parents who massively improved upon the parenting they received
        • I was very lucky to know so many lovable people
        • My dad loved Lancias
        • Mythopoesis - "isn't this gaslighting?"
        • Mythopoesis - what and why
        • Mythopoesis (parent page)
        • Mythopoesis → "my dad massively improved on the parenting that he received"
        • Mythopoesis 1 - same life story, different conclusions
        • Mythopoesis approach 2 - a different life story
        • Of course I look dumb to myself in hindsight
        • Parents are x years into y year marathon
        • Should I intentionally tweet better? 2025-10-24
        • Why all the Alex anthropology bro?
        • WIP → Mythopoesis → rewriting the conclusion that "I was a loser in x era because of social anxiety
      • Albums per era
      • Alex anthropology (parent page)
      • My Eras (index)
      • Not caring about external things
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    On stuff that I love (parent page)

    On stuff that I love (parent page)

    Nov 06, 20251 min read

    • I’m yet to write up a manifesto for this. But basically, there are various things that I’ve been very passionate about in my life, and I’ve never quite known what to do with all that energy
    • The answer is probably “create stuff”
    • Thur 2025-08-07
      • On fiction (parent page)
    • Wed 2025-08-06
      • Addicted to this new Hayley Williams music video
    • Mon 2025-08-04
      • David Foster Wallace (parent page)

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