"Thinking In Public" log 🪵

August 2025

Week of 18th August

• Mon 2025-08-18
  • What does it mean to be a professional meta-cognitionist?

Week of 11th August

• Wed 2025-08-13
  • Aha, maybe I’m a “professional meta-cognitionist”, lol

Week of 4th August

• Sat 2025-08-09
  • How to think in a rigorous way
• Tue 2025-08-05
  • Dealing with overwhelm at work
  • “What does it mean to be in ORI?” (Open Question)

July 2025

Week of 28th July

• Fri 2025-08-01
  • Superprof Philosophy, Ethics tutor

Week of 21st July

• Sat 2025-07-26
  • How much better do I really need to get at thinking?
• Mon 2025-07-21
  • Why am I publishing stuff semi-privately?
  • Prepping for thinking tutor

Week of 14th July

• Sun 2025-07-20
  • Should I meditate regularly?
• Wed 2025-07-16
  • Gemini Socrates - Outcapped
• Tue 2025-07-15
  • Questioning Effective Altruism
  • Red-teaming working for Outcapped

Week of 7th July

• Wed 2025-07-09
  • Resisting the urge to switch to logic or rhetoric
  • Second round of learning from Ward Farnworth’s book on the Socratic method
• Tue 2025-07-08
  • How can I operate from a place of uncertainty?
• Mon 2025-07-07
  • 10. Why thinking things through is aversive
  • 11. Manifesto - “Time to re-assess full-time vs part-time work”
  • Gemini Socrates - part-time vs full-time work

Week of 30th June

• 2025-07-06
  • 08. Enneagram 3 thinking sins
  • 09. I’m not good at the elenchus yet (2025-07-06)
• 2025-07-05
  • 06. Learning the Socratic method, part 1 → the rationale
  • 07. Learning the Socratic method, part 2 → the “how”
• 2025-07-04
  • 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)
• 2025-07-02
  • 01. Writing up my own Socratic dialogues
  • 02. Book list re learning how to think