• to write a blogsubstack.com
  • or ask an LLM to implement Github pages / Jekyll / domain name / visual style of your choice
  • email bloggers you like with your essays
  • find people who publish internet lists and email yourself into their list
  • join twitter and insufferably link to your posts when relevant
    • this is why building up a library of work is great
  • make a list of people who can read your drafts
  • ignore everything in this list and write
  • to succeed in a field
    • do the reading
    • there’s always a textbook
    • look up “professor in x” online and email them questions
    • think about it in the shower
  • to not waste time
    • answer emails immediately
    • shorten emails
    • get someone else (an LLM) to do it
  • to cheer people up
    • if you randomly remember something you like about Alice, tell Alice
    • this applies to famous people too ^
    • “thanks for existing” if a legal move
  • to cheer yourself up
    • gratitude journals actually work
    • when someone compliments you, ask for more details
      • this trick feels like crack cocaine
    • write a list of personal victories somewhere
      • future self in tears
    • walk first thing in the morning
      • we rly like sun, actually
    • sing with others
      • what, did you think it had to sound good??
  • to casually mold the world
    • you can just email internet people
      • something to add to a public list (like this one)?
      • a typo?
      • shorten the link?
    • if there’s trash on the ground, pick it up
  • to make money
    • most things in the world can be traded for money
      • with at least some people
    • but remarkably few of those trade types are in the common knowledge
    • you’ll be doing us all a favor by increasing the amount
  • to solve daily problems
    • automate it by asking an LLM how you can automate it
      • the class of things that aren’t worth automating is shrinking at the rate the cost of automating things is
      • so do a situation check from time to time
    • do the teeny version first
  • to be healthy
    • take the medicine you’ve been prescribed
    • take the medicine you’ve been prescribed
    • walk
  • to be social
    • organize the dinners/parties/hangouts yourself
    • you know your friends well enough to suggest something they’ll accept
    • put the damn birthdays on the google calendar
  • to be right about things
  • to avoid akrasia

    • Suggestions from twitter:

    1. We’re testing the footnotes! ↩