Hi Oliver, Is there a sequence out there explaining these terms? A quick Google/LW/CFAR search didn’t throw anything up which covered all the concepts you mention above (there’s a sequence called Hammertime, but it didn’t cover all the concepts you mention). I think one of the benfits of a centralized source of information is that it’s accessible and intuitive to find. In the current state, it seems that you would have to go out of your way to find these kinds of writeups, and possibly not even know they exist.
I don’t think there is a single link, though most of the concepts have a pretty good canonical resource. I do think it usually takes quite a bit of text to convey each of those concepts, so I don’t think creating a single written reference is easily feasible, unless someone wants to produce multiple books worth of content (I’ve historically been impressed with how much content you can convey in a 1.5 hour long class, often 10 blog posts worth, or about half of a book).
I don’t think I have the time to compile a full list of resources for each of these concepts, but I will share the top things that come to mind.
Units of Exchange: I think microeconomics classes do a pretty good job of this, though are usually a bit abstract. A lot of writing of Scott Alexander gets at this, with the best introduction probably being his “Efficient Charity: Do unto others...”
Inner Simulator: Covered pretty well by Thinking: Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Trigger-Action Planning: Also covered pretty well by Thinking Fast and Slow, though, with some Getting Things Done thrown into it
Goal Factoring: I don’t actually know a good introduction to this, alas.
Hi Oliver, Is there a sequence out there explaining these terms? A quick Google/LW/CFAR search didn’t throw anything up which covered all the concepts you mention above (there’s a sequence called Hammertime, but it didn’t cover all the concepts you mention). I think one of the benfits of a centralized source of information is that it’s accessible and intuitive to find. In the current state, it seems that you would have to go out of your way to find these kinds of writeups, and possibly not even know they exist.
I don’t think there is a single link, though most of the concepts have a pretty good canonical resource. I do think it usually takes quite a bit of text to convey each of those concepts, so I don’t think creating a single written reference is easily feasible, unless someone wants to produce multiple books worth of content (I’ve historically been impressed with how much content you can convey in a 1.5 hour long class, often 10 blog posts worth, or about half of a book).
I don’t think I have the time to compile a full list of resources for each of these concepts, but I will share the top things that come to mind.
Units of Exchange: I think microeconomics classes do a pretty good job of this, though are usually a bit abstract. A lot of writing of Scott Alexander gets at this, with the best introduction probably being his “Efficient Charity: Do unto others...”
Inner Simulator: Covered pretty well by Thinking: Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Trigger-Action Planning: Also covered pretty well by Thinking Fast and Slow, though, with some Getting Things Done thrown into it
Goal Factoring: I don’t actually know a good introduction to this, alas.
Understanding Shoulds: Mindingourway.com’s “Replacing Guilt” series
Focusing: The best introduction into this is Gendlin’s audiobook, which I highly recommend and is relatively short
Systemization: As mentioned, Getting Things Done is the best introduction into this topic
Double Crux: I think Duncan Sabien’s introduction for this is probably the best one