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04. September 2025

• Wed 2025-09-17
  • Good tweets
• Sun 2025-09-14
  • Archiving older things
  • Writing - zero pressure at all
• Fri 2025-09-12
  • The End of Cringing Self-Justification (substack post)
• Thur 2025-09-11
  • Fade to memory (song) 2025-09-11
• Wed 2025-09-10
  • What help do I want from Sasha Chapin re writing etc?
  • 2025-09-10 what should I do differently, ChatGPT?
  • 11. Balcony
• Tue 2025-09-09
  • 10. After “Ship It Week”
  • Cornflakes song 2025-09-09
• Mon 2025-09-08
  • Music making log (era 2)
  • 2025-09-08 song (“I Mind”)

03. August 2025

Week of 25th August

• Thur 2025-09-04
  • “Alex and Simmo are forming a group house!” — website!
  • I want to make good stuff now - 2025-09-04
• Wed 2025-09-03
  • Youtube video - return to youtube
  • Gathering what people shipped at Ship It Week
  • Hit Publish - Wednesday at Ship It Week (substack post)
• Tue 2025-09-02
  • What could a return to youtube look like?
  • Morning pages or something, 2025-09-02
  • Mansplaining David Foster Wallace 2025-09-02
• Mon 2025-09-01
  • Ship It Week, day 3 retro
• Sun 2025-08-31
  • 08. Morning by the pool
• Sat 2025-08-30
  • Ship It Week log
  • Ship It Week, day 1 retro
• Thur 2025-08-28
  • I’m overwhelmed! 2025-08-28
  • It’s possible that community could obviously be the thing for me (2025-08-28)
  • 07. Travel day
• Tue 2025-08-26
  • 06. Cornflakes
• Mon 2025-08-25
  • London vs Oxford for a group house
  • What could the Alexnaissance look like?
  • Should we do the Fractal Campus accelerator?
  • 05. Hospital cafe

Week of 18th August

• Sun 2025-08-25
  • 04. It flows, if you let it
• Sat 2025-08-23
  • Skillful vs Unskillful Mind
  • Ridiculousness audit 2025-08-23
  • I’m locking in some deliverables!
  • 03. To be a tpot zoomer
• Fri 2025-08-22
  • Writing more! (Parent page)
  • 01. To be a boomer
  • 02. Don’t be overwhelmed!
• Wed 2025-08-20
  • I’m overwhelmed! 2025-08-20
• Mon 2025-08-18
  • What does it mean to be a professional meta-cognitionist?

Week of 11th August

• Fri 2025-08-15
  • Why do I dislike my Dad’s region of Spain so much?
• Wed 2025-08-13
  • Aha, maybe I’m a “professional meta-cognitionist”, lol
  • Visual notes are a form of active learning
  • What if we founded “Fractal Oxford”?
• Tue 2025-08-12
  • Alex and Simmo group house, parent page

Week of 4th August

• Sun 2025-08-10
  • Should I follow some of the prescriptions of Bonesaw?
  • Should I pay Michael Stroe to help me break aversion?
• Sat 2025-08-09
  • Is it unethical to take my mum to family therapy?
  • Visual deconstruction via eye gazing and verbal debugging
• Thu 2025-08-07
  • Excited to be employed as a (self-described) Kegan 4
  • On fiction (parent page)
  • Writing to explore ideas
• Wed 2025-08-06
  • FRI (Parent Page)
  • Handling my feelings about doing an FRI work test
  • Addicted to this new Hayley Williams music video
• Tue 2025-08-05 🎉🎂 birthday 🎂🎉
  • Dealing with overwhelm at work
  • What turning 29 means in Chinese culture (according to Gemini)
  • Thinking about ORI phase 3, 2025-08-05
• Mon 2025-08-04
  • What “This is Water” means to me
  • David Foster Wallace (parent page)
  • Why do I love DFW’s fiction so much?

02. July 2025

Week of 28th July

• Sun 2025-08-03
  • July 2025 review
  • My July 2025 spending
• Fri 2025-08-01
  • Why an Obsidian-based website?
  • Superprof Philosophy, Ethics tutor
• Tue 2025-07-29
  • I am now making money!
  • Going to family therapy with my mum!

Week of 21st July

• Sun 2025-07-27
  • Should I value in-person connection highly? (first pass)
• Sat 2025-07-26
  • What is next for me after living at my mum’s? day 1
• Tue 2025-07-22
  • Added “Solved Open Questions”
    • “How can I learn effectively?”
    • Phase 1 of “healing” is complete
    • These were both my top-of-mind “open questions” in previous years (without me necessarily being consciously aware), now they’re ~solved enough!
  • I saw a family therapist yesterday
  • It’s my Dad’s birthday today
  • Learning about adoption in the UK
• Mon 2025-07-21
  • Why am I publishing stuff semi-privately?
  • Prepping for thinking tutor

Week of 14th July

• Sun 2025-07-20
  • NVC flashcards
  • Should I meditate regularly?
  • Gilman Equation
  • Meditation log
• Fri 2025-07-18
  • Setting a contractor fee for Outcapped
  • Current family project open questions
  • What I currently know about Bowen family systems theory
• Thur 2025-07-17
  • The terrible pedagogy of (Michael Kerr’s version of) Bowen Family Systems Theory
• Wed 2025-07-16
  • Gemini Socrates - Outcapped
• Tue 2025-07-15
  • Bowen family systems - flashcards
  • Red-teaming working for Outcapped
  • Questioning Effective Altruism
• Mon 2025-07-14
  • Dialectic and Dialogue - Plato’s Practice of Philosophical Inquiry (Gonzalez)
  • Continuing Bowen family systems - flashcards

Week of 7th July

• Sun 2025-07-13
  • Continuing Bowen family systems - flashcards
• Fri 2025-07-11
  • Bowen family systems - flashcards
• 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
  • “How can I change how to orient to my family?” (Open Question)
    • Starting “Growing Yourself Up - How to Bring Your Best to All of Life’s Relationships
• Tue 2025-07-08
  • How can I operate from a place of uncertainty?
  • Personal values & “rationality” sprint, v2
• Mon 2025-07-07
  • “How should I make money?” (Open Question)
  • Gemini Socrates - part-time vs full-time work

01. June 2025

Week of 30th of June

• Sun 2025-07-06
  • 08. Enneagram 3 thinking sins
  • 09. I’m not good at the elenchus yet (2025-07-06)
• Sat 2025-07-05
  • “How can I improve my ability to think?” (Parent Page)
• Fri 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)
• Wed 2025-07-02
  • Example dialogue, 2025-07-02
  • “How can I improve my ability to think?” (Parent Page)
• Tue 2025-07-01
  • 01. Writing up my own Socratic dialogues

Week of 23rd June

• Sat 28th June
  • 🧪 Pandemic Action Network
    • Twitch stream 2025-06-28 - Top-down model of Pandemic Action Network
  • Tacit knowledge videos
  • Ancient Greece
• Fri 27th June
  • 🧪 Pandemic Action Network again - this is my full time sprint at the moment!
    • Twitch stream 2025-06-27 - reviewing WHO and COVID response flashcards
    • Twitch stream 2025-06-27 - reading a report and making flashcards
• Thu 26th June
  • 🧪 Pandemic Action Network
• Wed 25th June
  • Progressive iteration of visual notes - Pandemic Action Network examples
  • Microsolidarity crew call 2025-06-25
• Tue 24th June
  • 🟣 Project - “Are visual notes underrated and poorly understood?”
  • “How can I change how to orient to my family?” (Open Question)
• Mon 23rd June
  • My model of ORI, 2025-06-23

Week of 16th June

• Sun 22nd June
  • Amusing Ourselves to Death (read 1)
  • My goals, values as of January 2025
• Sat 21st June
  • Model of FRI
  • Learning about ozempic
• Thur 19th June
  • Israel & Iran (session 4)
• Wed 18th June
  • Israel & Iran (session 3)
  • Israel
• Tue 17th June
  • Preparing for post-job application feedback call
• Mon 16th June
  • Model of “Centre for Effective Altruism”

Week of 9th June

• Sun 15th June
  • Israel & Iran (session 1)
  • Israel & Iran (session 2)
• Sat 14th June
  • AOC tweet re Andrew Cuomo
• Fri 13th June
  • Top-down learning unlocks care (and ego)
  • Day 1 of trying to engage people on twitter via alt account
  • America & Immigration
• Thur 12th June
  • Note that these both link to my other website right now, kinda redundant/confusing, I’ll be doing all future ‘learning to think’ updates on this website where you currently are
  • Kickoff post - a quick blog post I wrote re: why I was so excited to read Defender’s post about learning to think at 30
  • Log of what I did on day 1 → I followed his guide, made a twitter alt, found some people and tried to predict why they were so mad at AOC, saying that Delaware is toast and Ohio is gonna rise, etc