Author Archives: Konrad

Its organized around topics and there are real conversations in high quality subreddits devoted to these topics. The voting mechanism brings the best content to the top. There are sections of reddit that are overrun by trolls, but you don’t have to frequent those. Setup your reddit account so you’re only following subreddits that are…More

Theres a bias in “productive” communities that look for the quick fix to productivity. Whether its drinking coffee, taking modafinil for wakefulness, or taking adrenal for focus, these are all short term fixes. They may help you in the for 24 hours but then there is a crash and a decrease in productivity. In the…More

Never enough time in one day to get “everything” done. Never enough time in one year to “finish it”. Never enough time in your life to “make it”. So, the important thing is, are you enjoying the time? ^Day 246/90 54 wordsMore

This is the people and things that you surround yourself with. Sure, its possible to live in a messy, dirty apartment and be an effective human being. But, its much harder than if you setup your space to remind you of your goals and lessons learned. You’d be spending a significant amount of time in…More

On one side, of course, everyone should life as long and healthily as possible. It would be objectively better if there are more people that lead healthy and happy lives. On the other side, what if ensuring health happy lives for everyone who is alive now actually means that less people will be alive in…More

The industrial towns are no longer industrial. They don’t have any industry. People have enough to eek by, but not enough to thrive and be excited. And with the coming automation of all work, this problem will only get worse. The only way to guarantee that all people have a good standard of living is…More

Is this the way that we want the world to work? On the tip of Long Island where you must own a home in the local community to park near the beach. In upstate NY, most of the shore of the Hudson River is privately owned and vantage points on the river are few and…More

They love the community aspect of it. They love being told what to do. Its so much easier than figuring out what is actually the right thing to do. It makes everything so black and white. Theres an easy right and wrong. And its been shown that if you repeat something to yourself often enough,…More

The main religions have outlasted ever government and corporation that they might have competed against. Islam was founded in 610 AD, 1,407 years ago. Christianity was founded in 31 AD, 1,986 years ago. Buddhism was founded in 624 BCE, 2,641 years ago. Judaism was founded around 1900 B.C.E., 3,917 years ago. In comparison, the world’s…More

I stopped attending church regularly over a decade ago, mainly because of boredom. When I go these days I have the opposite problem. I’m fascinated. Fascinated by how 1.2 Billion people still identify as Catholics. The priest is balling on about: 1. How we need to be submissive to “God” aka the church. 2. How…More