Hello, everyone! I don’t remember how I first found the site a few months ago, but I came back after reading some of David Chapman’s stuff (Meaningness, Eggplant, etc.) I read through HPMOR and the sequences and thought they were pretty awesome, and I also really like the general vibes here in favor of good epistemics and discussion.
Some things about me: I graduated last spring with a B.S. in Poli Sci, I was planning to apply to law school but have since decided against it for the foreseeable future, I currently work at a local law firm in my area. I play violin and piano semi-professionally, doing gigs around town. I’ve been saving over 85% of my income since last September when I actually started tracking it. Relatedly, I want to keep my spending very low. It seems really helpful at allowing me to have control of my time and my actions. I want to learn a lot of things and get better at doing a lot of things. I regret that I didn’t have this mindset when I was still in college, at that point I was mainly seeking good grades for minimum effort. I don’t have too much in terms of strong life direction. My interests are varied and I can’t really imagine picking any one thing to focus on above all else for more than a limited time. Last time I took an OCEAN test I was in the bottom 1% for neuroticism so that may help explain some things. Current focuses: Music, Japanese, Exercise, learning about AI (have updated massively towards a relatively shorter timeline from basically no timeline at all since first visiting the site), and Cooking. I definitely want to get some better structure to actually track progress in different things. I also want to get caught up on some math and physics to better intuitively understand some of the stuff I’ve been reading here, I used to be pretty good (went to National Mathcounts in middle school) but haven’t done anything past like Calc 1 and I don’t remember that very well. I’m in the US, but do not live really close to any of the meet-up places that I have seen.
What I want to do here: I would like to use all the cool stuff you guys have written/made to learn and get better at doing things, I would like to make positive connections and friendships with smart and interesting people, and I would like to hopefully create some content that people here will find useful at some point. See you around!
Hello, everyone! I don’t remember how I first found the site a few months ago, but I came back after reading some of David Chapman’s stuff (Meaningness, Eggplant, etc.) I read through HPMOR and the sequences and thought they were pretty awesome, and I also really like the general vibes here in favor of good epistemics and discussion.
Some things about me:
I graduated last spring with a B.S. in Poli Sci, I was planning to apply to law school but have since decided against it for the foreseeable future, I currently work at a local law firm in my area.
I play violin and piano semi-professionally, doing gigs around town.
I’ve been saving over 85% of my income since last September when I actually started tracking it.
Relatedly, I want to keep my spending very low. It seems really helpful at allowing me to have control of my time and my actions.
I want to learn a lot of things and get better at doing a lot of things. I regret that I didn’t have this mindset when I was still in college, at that point I was mainly seeking good grades for minimum effort.
I don’t have too much in terms of strong life direction. My interests are varied and I can’t really imagine picking any one thing to focus on above all else for more than a limited time.
Last time I took an OCEAN test I was in the bottom 1% for neuroticism so that may help explain some things.
Current focuses: Music, Japanese, Exercise, learning about AI (have updated massively towards a relatively shorter timeline from basically no timeline at all since first visiting the site), and Cooking.
I definitely want to get some better structure to actually track progress in different things.
I also want to get caught up on some math and physics to better intuitively understand some of the stuff I’ve been reading here, I used to be pretty good (went to National Mathcounts in middle school) but haven’t done anything past like Calc 1 and I don’t remember that very well.
I’m in the US, but do not live really close to any of the meet-up places that I have seen.
What I want to do here: I would like to use all the cool stuff you guys have written/made to learn and get better at doing things, I would like to make positive connections and friendships with smart and interesting people, and I would like to hopefully create some content that people here will find useful at some point. See you around!