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1. Open Questions
1. Wisdom 🧠
1. How do you think well?
Misc
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 → the rationale (WIP)
06. Learning the Socratic method, part 1 → the rationale
07. Learning the Socratic method, part 2 → 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"
Anticipatio Mentis
Collection and division
Dialectic and Dialogue - Plato's Practice of Philosophical Inquiry (Gonzalez)
Gemini Socrates - part-time vs full-time work
How can I operate from a place of uncertainty?
How to construct the elenchus
How to use the Socratic method with other people
Interpretatio Naturae
Personal values & "rationality" sprint, v2
Red-teaming working for Outcapped
Resisting the urge to switch to logic or rhetoric
Second round of learning from Ward Farnworth's book on the Socratic method
The case for not associating with the Effective Altruism movement
The elenchus
The first half of the elenchus
The second half of the elenchus
Theory of change for how writing your own Socratic dialogues "works"
What is the elenchus?
Socratic dialogues
Example dialogue, 2025-07-02
🧠 Learning how to think
Aporia
2. How do you learn well?
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History
Ancient Greece
International relations
America
America & Immigration
AOC tweet re Andrew Cuomo
Middle East
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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
Bottom-up learning
Fluency
Hermeneutic circle, hermeneutic spiral
My "make flashcards for me" prompt for AI
Popperian truth
Tacit knowledge videos
Top-down learning
Top-down learning unlocks care (and ego)
Logging my journey
01. Writing up my own Socratic dialogues
Collection of voice notes
Learning Twitch Streams
Value of visual notes
🟣 Project - "Are visual notes underrated and poorly understood?"
Are visual notes underrated and poorly understood?
Progressive iteration of visual notes - Pandemic Action Network examples
🪵 Learning log per day
How can you know yourself?
Misc
My goals, values as of January 2025
How can you live well?
Misc
Amusing Ourselves to Death (read 1)
2. Kindness ❤️
How can you help your family?
Misc
Bowen family systems - flashcards
Call with my friend "S" - 2025-06-23
Helping family - open questions
Learning about ozempic
Meta - about the "how can I help my family" project
Microsolidarity crew call 2025-06-25
Starting "Growing Yourself Up - How to Bring Your Best to All of Life's Relationships
Visual metaphors for the "how can I help my family" project
🟢 Project - "How can I help my family?"
How should I make money? 💰
Misc
Effective Altruism
Model of "Centre for Effective Altruism"
Forecasting, Research
Model of FRI
Why work for FRI
Pandemic Action Network
🧪 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?
Gemini Socrates - Outcapped
Preparing for post-job application feedback call
Working with Rob at Outcapped, parent page
💰 How should I make money?
What does it mean to be in ORI? 🔬
Misc
My model of ORI
My model of ORI, 2025-06-23
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Collection and division
Jul 16, 2025
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Systole
Diastole
Platonic collection and division, diairesis, dialecticians
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Systole
Diastole
Platonic collection and division, diairesis, dialecticians
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