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Perhaps the most important concept in strategy is the importance of operating within the right paradigm. It is extremely important to orient

Some of you have likely seen this already, but for those of you who haven't, Eliezer recently finished a series of Tumblr posts on writing i

Followup to: Use Search Engines Early and Often Last year, I posted about using search engines and particularly recommended GoodSearch, a

Author's note: this post was written on Sunday, Oct. 19th. Its sequel will be written on Sunday, Oct. 27th. Last night, I went to bed con

One good way to ensure that your plans are robust is to strawman yourself. Look at your plan in the most critical, contemptuous light possib

One useful little concept that a friend and I have is that of the antiskill. Like a normal skill, an antiskill gives you both the ability an

In Magic: the Gathering and other popular card games, advanced players have developed the notion of a "win-more" card. A "win-more" card is

There are things that are worthless-- that provide no value. There are also things that are worse than worthless-- things that provide negat

When I was younger, I thought that conversations in real life were much more likely to promote true beliefs and meaningful changes than conv