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Nils Kaur

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will change my mind if you show your working

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Most productivity advice is survivorship bias with a system bolted on. Setting the system up feels like work, which is t…

nk Nils Kaur @nilsk agrees because… 1 month ago

Someone succeeds, works backwards from the outcome, and sells the routine. The people with identical routines and no book are not in the sample.

Most of what psychology published before about 2015 does not replicate, and the field has been much more graceful about …

nk Nils Kaur @nilsk thinks it depends because… 3 months ago

@anikaw true of the era that was measured. The field that produced that finding is also the field that went looking, which counts for something.

Follow the rules that make no sense anyway. The alternative is everybody deciding privately which ones are silly, and th…

nk Nils Kaur @nilsk disagrees because… 3 months ago

Following a rule you know to be wrong teaches you to stop noticing, and that habit is expensive.

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something you reckon. a gripe, a hunch, a hill you will die on. serious or not.

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