2024-06-07

Manifest 2024 trip
- Anthropics discussion
  - Assumptions
    - Self-identification
    - Self-assumption
  - Host's blog: https://benthams.substack.com/
- Procedural executive function
  - 4 types of want
    - Want to do X
    - Want X to be done
    - Want to be an Xer
    - Want to be seen as an Xer
  - Ugh fields
  - Speaker's website: https://daystareld.com/
  - Tips
    - Do hard things with someone else in room
      - E.g. have someone else doing their taxes beside you as you do yours
    - Replace "I don't have time for X" with "I am not prioritizing X"
    - Tip: develop stimuli to do things
      - E.g. post-it note that says "remember to do X when you do Y'
    - Break down task into smaller parts
      - goblin.tools does this with an LLM
    - Gamification hacks, but use responsibly
    - Self-monitoring, be aware of what you're doing and when you're being distracted
    - Leechblocker browser extension
    - Stimulants
      - Rare to see people go really bad with stimulants
      - Should see a psychiatrist
      - Do experimentation
    - Burnout is mismatch between responsibility and power
- Experimental conversational format
  - Need to spend cube for 20 seconds of speech