Sitemap - 2023 - Unknown Unknowns

Ego and Decisions

Losers

Credibility

Do Things That Suck

🤯Unknown Unknowns #121 - On Taste

Mimesis and Popularity

The First Move

Brain Size to Body Size

🤯Unknown Unknowns #120 - On Happiness

Life Expectancy

Trust Barriers

Getting Paid

🤯Unknown Unknowns #119 - Write For Yourself, Then Write For Others

Practical Delusions

Open-mindedness

Age of Entrepreneurs

Selfishness is Believing the Ends Justify the Means

🤯Unknown Unknowns #118 - Follow Your Fascination

Why does Jim O'Shaughnessy Think in Twos?

Taste

Why I Won't Get in a Self-Driving Car

Mandate of Heaven

Burdens and Expectations

🤯Unknown Unknowns #117 - Embrace Uncertainty

Activism

The Gift of Slack

Dogmatism

🤯Unknown Unknowns #116 - Losing Your Edge

Identity

🤯Unknown Unknowns #115 - Don’t Kill Time, Make Time

Strike!

Happiness Has No Receipts

Quantity, not Quality

Kuzushi

Wu Wei

Inheritances

Motivation

Expectations

Render Unto Caesar

🤯Unknown Unknowns #114 - Chasing Scratch

Millionaires to Monks

Economics

Margin of Safety

Static Thinkers in a Dynamic World

Cults

🤯Unknown Unknowns #113 - I’m Getting Too Old For This Shit

🤯Unknown Unknowns #112 - Bullshit Jobs

🤯Unknown Unknowns #111 - Sinecures and Success

🤯Unknown Unknowns #110 - Interest

🤯Unknown Unknowns #109 - Dynamic Agency

🤯Unknown Unknowns #108 - Unlocking Agency

Unlocking Agency: Journey From Paycheck to Purpose

🤯Unknown Unknowns #107 - Ambition

🤯Unknown Unknowns #106 - Philosophical Wild Goose Chases

🤯Unknown Unknowns #105 - Throw Out the Playbook

🤯Unknown Unknowns #104 - Resonance Hooks

🤯Unknown Unknowns #103 - Get Out of Your Head

🤯Unknown Unknowns #102 - You Are NOT a Pain Sponge

Transformational Essays

🤯Unknown Unknowns #101 - Transformation

🤯Unknown Unknowns #100 - How This Began 100 Weeks Ago

The Purpose of Life is Through Intrinsic Motivation

🤯Unknown Unknowns #99 - Self-Discovery is THE Intrinsic Motivation

Where are You in Your Hero's Journey?

🤯Unknown Unknowns #98 - Chaordic Creativity

🤯Unknown Unknowns #97 - Finding Autonomy

The Rat Race

Guides

Moral Hazard and Antifragility

🤯Unknown Unknowns #96 - Finding Mastery

Upfront Payment vs Subscriptions

Finding Mastery

Faith

AI Doom

God's Work

🤯Unknown Unknowns #95 - Finding Purpose

The Creator Ponzi

Via Negativa - Purpose

Human Behavior

SVB

Creativity and Time

🤯Unknown Unknowns #94 - Via Negativa

Abstract Terms

Via Negativa

Glue Guy

Rumspringa

Consuming vs Creating

🤯Unknown Unknowns #93 - The Money Hole and the Creativity Fountain

Control

Power Games

Money and Creativity Satisfy Differently

Effort != Results

Storytelling

🤯Unknown Unknowns #92 - The Creative Experiment

The Creation Experiment

Interestingness

Walking your own path

Complexity as a Service

Confidence

🤯Unknown Unknowns #91 - If Creating is so Good, Why Aren’t We Doing It?

Group Dynamics

Constraints

Inspiration vs Permission

Dynamic vs Static

Audience Building Paradox

🤯Unknown Unknowns #90 - How Can We Create?

Agency

External Individual Systems

Being Useful

Writing as thinking

How to create?

How to Explore More

🤯Unknown Unknowns #89 - Why Create?

Anti-Psychopaths

Why Create?

Infotainment

Creator Economy Outreach

Rules for Life

Life is doing what you want

🤯Unknown Unknowns #88 - Niches Get Stitches

The Dance of the Bees: Finding Your Path as a Creator

Identity

Find Friends Through Courses

User Manual

🤯Unknown Unknowns #87 - What is Creativity?

Adoption Curve

What is creativity?

Mid-Life Crisis

Theory of knowledge

Cantillon Effect

🤯Unknown Unknowns #86 - Liminal Creators

Single Point of Failure

Reality TV with German-style Boardgame Rules

Just Do It

Liminal Creators

Simplifying Finance

🤯Unknown Unknowns #85 - Do YOU get the Joke?

The Time is Now

Skeuomorphism

HODLwin's Law

Awareness

Burnout

🤯Unknown Unknowns #84 - Happy New Year!

Niches

Why Write

Reflections on Morals and Metagames

Moral Hazard

Ambition

🤯Unknown Unknowns #83 - The Pandemic of Quick Fixes

The Vigilance Problem

Do Something 100 Times

Drug Commercials

ChatGPT

The Law of Supply and Demand

🤯Unknown Unknowns #82 - On Writing

Hustle Culture and Imposter Syndrome

Creating

Tutoring

On Writing

Fiction and Morals