I think I would enjoy and appreciate learning this framework. A bunch of graphs without explanation or examples is, unfortunately, too dry and difficult for me to understand.
Sameerishere
[Question] What precautions should fully-vaccinated people still be taking?
The glorious energy boost I’ve gotten by abstaining from coffee
[Question] How long would you wait to get Moderna/Pfizer vs J&J?
Cliffs Notes: How much should fully vaccinated people care about Long COVID?
[Question] Long COVID risk: How to maintain an up to date risk assessment so we can go back to normal life?
[Question] Should reasonably healthy people still take Paxlovid?
[Question] Is there a way to test your personal COVID vaccine response? How do corticosteroids impact response?
What I did to reduce the risk of Long COVID (and manage symptoms) after getting COVID
Thank you for writing this! I was wondering whether Kat’s babysitting test would lead to false negatives, and was thinking of writing a post polling LW on the subject. To add more anecdata, I asked a friend who’s been a dad for… 8 years, I believe, and he thought that he just cares about / likes / finds it easier to tolerate his own kids in a way that’s not true with others’ kids, and he expects this would generalize to other parents as well.
(I—a man in my mid 30s without much experience actually spending time with kids—have had a clear felt sense of wanting a kid for several years now, but value my time and energy fairly highly, so Kat’s post really gave me pause. I still feel an emotional pull to having a kid that I don’t think would be satisfied by the alternatives in her post, even though I think it will have lots of costs/difficulties.)
Which COVID booster to get?
[Question] How should we adjust microCOVID estimates for omicron, boosters, testing?
Dwarkesh Patel seems to have a full transcript on his blog https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/carl-shulman#details
[Question] MicroCOVID risk levels inaccurate due to undercounting in data sources vs wastewater data?
FYI, prevalence updater now seems to be fixed https://github.com/microCOVID/microCOVID/issues/1358
Can you elaborate on why these are your criteria?
I worked as a strategy consultant for several years, with an unreasonable work-life balance, and in college generally did not get enough sleep, so I have some experience to draw on here :-).
I’ve found transcending-based meditation to be super restorative and often much easier to drop into than a 20 minute nap. I practice Natural Stress Relief Meditation ($40 self study course at nsr-usa.org), but I read a recommendation for the 1 Giant Mind app, which teaches a similar technique and I think is free.
As for being productive while awake: I’ve found the following most effective:
Maximizing energy
cold showers (you can start with a hot shower, just end with a one minute cold shower at the end… Feel free to warm up afterwards with clothing or bedding)
high intensity cardio (I personally do 15 min on the elliptical, alternating between 30 second intervals of sprinting and 30 seconds of easy walking—but the general goal is to get your blood flowing and heart racing without exerting yourself so much that it significantly tires you out).
Eating low carb and as little as you can
Listening to non-vocal electronic music
Staying focused
Using the pomodoro technique
Using blockers like leechblock and appblock
Turning my phone off and putting it in a different room physically
Maximizing clarity of thought:
Storing as much as possible on paper (electronic or physical) - diagrams, bullets, detailed action steps—rather than my working memory
Maybe ask on EA forum in addition? I donate to Amnesty International and I seem to recall my googling suggesting they are not totally useless, but no ideal what is optimal.
I live in the Bay Area and I don’t check the news in detail daily. I knew we have more rain coming but found this post helpful in increasing the salience of the storm and the precautions I might want to take.
Given the range of incredibly niche and personal things people post on LW, I think posting this here is perfectly fine.
This was very sweet and reinforced my desire to have a child (a topic I’m chewing on at the moment).