Week of 14th July 2025

• Life Reviews

Wins

1. Improve thinking

1. Wrote up a manifesto re: “maybe I should stop working at EA orgs”
   • Questioning Effective Altruism
2. Wrote up a thing re: the terrible pedagogy of Bowen family systems
   • The terrible pedagogy of (Michael Kerr’s version of) Bowen Family Systems Theory
3. Wrote up a manifesto re: “should I meditate?”
   • Should I meditate regularly?
4. Rediscovered the Gilman equation
   • Gilman Equation
5. Booked some intro calls with philosophy/ethics/“how to think” tutors on Superprof.co.uk
6. Made some Gonzalez flashcards (Plato), and deprioritised
   • Dialectic and Dialogue - Plato’s Practice of Philosophical Inquiry (Gonzalez)

2. Money

1. Outcapped week:
   1. Oriented to Outcapped role, 2 calls with Rob
      • Working with Rob at Outcapped, parent page
   2. Red-teamed working for Outcapped
   3. Figured out my rate, talked to him about it, then reoriented re: the “well you might only be an automations guy”
   4. Gemini Socrates 
   5. Wrote up a “am I charging too much?” thing and sent it to Rob

3. Soul/family

1. Bowen family systems → got to a point of “I think I’ve grokked enough of this for now” (after writing up my understanding to my scrapbook, and making a bunch of flashcards)
   • What I currently know about Bowen family systems theory
2. Found a family therapist and booked a session
3. Went to Buddhist place with sister
4. NVC flashcards
   • NVC flashcards

4. Friends 

1. Helped friend’s mum with house hunt