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Every Thursday, I condense the most profound lessons from my 20-hour reading weeks into a four-minute newsletter.

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Mind Macros 29: The myth of authenticity, as-if rituals, and self-cultivation

August 11, 2022

Western culture encourages us to look within, to seek our authentic selves. The promise is that by determining who we are, we can find the lifestyle that best fits our personality.

Mind Macros 28: 1% improvements, pursuing perfection, and understanding cognitive biases

August 4, 2022

We will chase perfection, and we will chase it relentlessly, knowing all the while we can never attain it. But along the way, we shall catch excellence.

Mind Macros 27: Explicit and tacit knowledge, categories of desire, and acquiring wisdom

July 28, 2022

Knowledge comes in two major forms: explicit and tacit. Explicit knowledge is all the facts you know and can consciously report, independent of context.

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