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1. Creating things
Creating music
Cornflakes song 2025-09-09
Fade to memory (song) 2025-09-11
Golden Line - Lyrics
Notes
DFW
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
Writings
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
Writings - Appendices
06. Cornflakes - appendix
To be a boomer - appendix
Tpot zoomer appendix
z Archived creations
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)
2. Connecting with people
Feedback
Feedback
Notes
"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
Other
1. Improve Lived Experience?
Body
"How do I look after my body?"
Workout log
Family
Notes
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)
Phenomenology
Notes
β'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
ΔnΔpΔnasati (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 reports
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 πͺ΅
Kensho
Meditation parent page
Ridiculousness audits
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?"
2. Make money?
Notes
Effective Altruism
Model of "Centre for Effective Altruism"
Forecasting, Research
Model of FRI
Why work for FRI
Pandemic Action Network
π§ͺ 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 πͺ΅
5. How to think?
How to learn
Notes
Learning examples
History
Ancient Greece
International relations
America
America & Immigration
AOC tweet re Andrew Cuomo
Middle East
Israel
Israel & Iran (session 1)
Israel & Iran (session 2)
Israel & Iran (session 3)
Israel & Iran (session 4)
Internet dialogues
Day 1 of trying to engage people on twitter via alt account
Learning techniques
Anki
Bottom-up learning
Fluency
Gemini Deep Research
Hermeneutic circle, hermeneutic spiral
Lemon tree β lemon curd β lemon pie π
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?
Logging my journey
01. Writing up my own Socratic dialogues
Collection of voice notes
Learning Twitch Streams
Value of visual notes
π£ 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)
Notes
Life Reviews
July 2025 review
Life Reviews
Week of 14th July 2025
Week of 21st July 2025
Socratic Dialogues
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 β the rationale (WIP)
06. Learning the Socratic method, part 1 β the rationale
07. Learning the Socratic method, part 2 β 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
What does it mean to be in ORI?
Notes
My model of ORI
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 πͺ΅
Tactically clever, strategically stupid
Quick add
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?
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Mansplaining David Foster Wallace 2025-09-02
Mansplaining David Foster Wallace 2025-09-02
Sep 19, 2025
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I mansplained DFW at my friend Evelyn!! hehehe, what a treat
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