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July 13, 2023July 7, 2024Book post

My experience with time-blocking

Time-blocking is a method of managing one’s time by scheduling in advance what tasks or activities you will do throughout the day. […]

July 4, 2023July 7, 2024Book post

Criticisms of Ha-Joon Chang’s “Economics: The User’s Guide”

In this post, I set out and explain some of my criticisms of Ha-Joon Chang’s book, Economics: The User’s Guide. First off, […]

July 3, 2023July 7, 2024Book Summary

Book Summary: Economics: The User’s Guide by Ha-Joon Chang

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I’m prefacing this summary of Economics: The User’s Guide with a disclaimer: There’s a lot that I haven’t summarised, because the book […]

June 19, 2023July 7, 2024Blog

Summaries are not substitutes for books

In university, I had very good notes. My study process consisted of summarising my notes, and then producing an even shorter, 1-page […]

June 5, 2023July 8, 2024Book post

Criticisms of So Good They Can’t Ignore You by Cal Newport

This post sets out five major criticisms I have for Cal Newport’s book, So Good They Can’t Ignore You (click to read […]

June 5, 2023July 7, 2024Book Summary

Book Summary: So Good They Can’t Ignore You by Cal Newport

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This summary of So Good They Can’t Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love explains why […]

June 1, 2023July 7, 2024Blog

Is using ChatGPT cheating? How ChatGPT helped me write a blog post

In this post, I explain how I used ChatGPT to help me write another post about ChatGPT (Could ChatGPT end up raising […]

May 24, 2023July 7, 2024Book post

Range at an individual level vs a societal level

In Range, David Epstein set out a compelling case for favouring breadth over depth in our careers. He points out that when […]

May 21, 2023July 7, 2024Book Summary

Book Summary: The Most Human Human by Brian Christian

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This summary of The Most Human Human: What Artificial Intelligence Teaches Us About Being Alive by Brian Christian discusses the essence of […]

May 19, 2023July 7, 2024Uncategorized

Information Entropy (from “The Most Human Human”)

I’ve split out this post from my main summary of The Most Human Human by Brian Christian. Click the link to find my the full […]

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