> *Back to [[🏠 Home Page]]* # 17th Feb Sinking my teeth into learning rationality. I'm hyped!! This was the post that convinced me to give rationality a proper shot after bouncing off it and strawman-ing it for years https://metarationality.com/stem-fluidity-bridge # 16th Feb ### 1. What job? Been doing a deep dive on what to do with my life in the next era, after ~finishing doing my [[Personal Dharma Inquiry]]. Currently thinking either a civil service job (develop skills, be useful, see how the sausage is made), an ~internal operations job at my favourite comedy podcast network, or maybe finding an impact-oriented B corp/startup. Or even being a management consultant, but I don't think the work-life balance would be worth it... Had a great chat with a new friend at the Effective Altruism coworking space who happens to be a civil servant, and the pitch he gave me was actually super compelling. I've been torn between working at a small startup again, ~30 people, like at [[Job - Alvea]], but as they're so small, you don't get thorough training/progression/mentorship. Or a bigger corporation, like being a management consultant, where you get really good training and progression and get to develop your skill set, but the work is maybe kind of depressingly corporate... Civil service sounds like a great combo of impactful work + skill progression & mentorship + apparently the people are really intelligent and nice and you get good mentorship and they have your best interests at heart etc. And they don't expect America-style overworking... I started preparing for my "dream job", and then realised "hang on, I should slow down and consider other possibilities first". Diving headlong into the first really compelling idea has been my pattern so far in life. And this job *would* be absolutely outstanding, but there could be even better options out there. ### 2. [[Learning how to think]] I got ChatGPT to generate a report: ``` Based on the above output that you generated about learning how to think, David Chapman's post 'A bridge to meta-rationality vs. civilizational collapse', and Robert Kegan, can you write a persuasive piece on why it is so important to learn to think at the age of 28, after receiving a poor education? I'm currently reading the sci fi book "Last and First Men", which charts the rise and fall of many civilisations. It feels like this gradual decline in educational quality has far-reaching consequences and can already be potently felt in 21st century. Brain rot, populism, Vervaeke's "the meaning crisis", nihilism, etc etc ``` And it, based on not that much info about me, pretty much summed up a good chunk of my life in a hilariously devastating way. A big chunk of my time at the EA Coworking Space has been working on [[Personal Dharma Inquiry]] to figure out - what do I actually want to do next?? And "learning how to think", specifically learning rationality (~Kegan 4, according to Chapman) is an essential thing that we just don't do anymore. And I kind of bounced off the rationality community very quickly when I first discovered it, due to distaste for the community and Eliezer's writing style, and moved to post-rationality [[Post-rationalist journey]] without having first integrated rationality. # 13th & 14th FEB 2025 HEADS DOWN PREPARING PROPOSAL FOR DREAM JOB LFG # 12th FEB 2025 The [[Personal Dharma Inquiry]] continues, holy shit it's a lot of questions I've fed my answers so far + write-ups on my last 2 jobs (what I did + feedback) to Claude, very useful so far. I think it's getting close to the time to leave the Effective Altruism coworking space Currently feeling the siren song of a full time job in London... # 11th FEB 2025 Want to avoid rabbit holes today and just focus on [[Personal Dharma Inquiry]] # **10th FEB 2025:** Woke up and went to the pool with my friends V and E; beat E in a swimming race (barely, she has great form, I have more muscles). Sauna, shower, back home. ### 1. Rabbit-holes I spend a fair chunk of my time going down rabbit holes, expanding my understanding of things in a pretty scattered but ultimately very fun way. On my walk back from the gym I saw Theo (IFS guy, lovely guy) recommend a twitter thread to I decided to check it out once I got back and ate. [[10th Feb - Excursus on some recent rabbit-holes ]] ##### 😎 Rabbit-hole of the day I'm currently checking out [this thread](https://x.com/arobinsontweets/status/1888798200733303267). IT'S INCREDIBLE. Real beautiful intersection of what would normally be classed as "woo", and "hard science". Excerpt: > (14/23) fundamentally, it’s all energy, frequency, and vibration as per Tesla. So when you are working at this interface of thought & information to biological substrate - when you’re doing neural remodeling, building up atrophied and long dormant tissue, updating your code - it’s an ego-less experiencing of energy flows as per higher-order jhanas. Your objective function when exploring this boundary is to increase harmony. Another prompt: `Who is Stephen Wolfram?I just watched his TED talk and he talks about how he has made a new language which has given him super powers` ### 2. [[Personal Dharma Inquiry]] I should probably go down less rabbit-holes and figure out income... which is where [[Clarifying what I want from life]] comes in -> time to do some work on that now... ![[Pasted image 20250211125334.png]] # 9TH FEB 2025 [[Clarifying what I want from life]]