Archive - Sigmoid

Smart work requires hard thinking. Without it, embrace wasteful action.

Oct 1, 2023 •

September 2023

Personal pipeline for content consumption

Quick comment — hope that helps

Sep 1, 2023 •

August 2023

Looking busy might kill you

Flight or fight, but do not freeze; for your life

Aug 1, 2023 •

July 2023

Feature request for Substack: sidenotes

Or anyone, really

Jul 1, 2023 •

June 2023

You are already playing the narratives game

There is no way out and everything is at stake

Jun 1, 2023 •

May 2023

Video games: implicit knowledge by practice

All games are educational, what are they teaching us?

May 1, 2023 •

April 2023

Mind the quality of the information

Useless information is more engaging, avoid that trap

Apr 1, 2023 •

March 2023

The actionable economy

When facing real problems, people tend to prefer solutions to entertainment — hopefully

Mar 1, 2023 •

February 2023

Very large language models are most useful when they ‘fail’ at being useful

A conversation with ChatGPT

Feb 1, 2023 •

January 2023

Take care of yourselves

Jan 1, 2023 •

September 2022

Irrationality due to salience bias

Or why people do too much of what is already abundant

Sep 10, 2022 •

August 2022

You need to sell your ideas

But the decision-makers may not care to understand them

Aug 27, 2022 •

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