📝 Alex's scrapbook

        • 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
        • 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
        • Meta - about "writing more!"
        • Morning Pages
        • 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
        • 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
        • I hear you got some nice feedback today
        • Writing - not good
        • Writing - Substack
        • Writing - vignettes
        • 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
        • "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
        • It's possible that community could obviously be the thing for me (2025-08-28)
        • London vs Oxford for a group house
        • Max aura
        • Ship It Week log
        • Ship It Week, day 1 retro
        • Ship It Week, day 2 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 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
            • "How do I look after my body?"
            • Workout log
              • 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)
              • “'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
              • 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
            • 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?"
              • 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
            • 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!
            • 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 🪵
                  • 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
            • Circumstantial luck
            • Collection and division
            • Constitutive luck
            • Dealing with overwhelm at work
            • 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
            • 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)
            • 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
                • 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 🪵
          • Tactically clever, strategically stupid
          • Death Ground
          • Friendship
          • Gathering what people shipped at Ship It Week
          • Going with the flow, consensus-ism, jesus take the wheel
          • Mansplaining David Foster Wallace 2025-09-02
          • Morning pages or something, 2025-09-02
          • Paper notebook
          • Ship It Week, day 3 retro
          • What could a return to youtube look like?
      • 🪵 Log per day
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    Tpot, post-rationalism

    Sep 19, 20251 min read

    • 2025-07-21
    • I made this slide deck guide to tpot back in ~Jan 2024
    • See also Christine’s guide to twitter
    • See also Milan’s guide to twitter
    • My twitter → https://x.com/alexislearning
    • 03. To be a tpot zoomer
    • Recent Rich thread on tpot memes

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    • Phase 1 of "healing" is complete
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