Someone asked about procrastination and where to even start, so I gave this answer. Thought I'd share – it's a really brief intro to some key ideas. 🧵 1/

"Caulicamp is a participant-driven summer camp near Sydney, inspired by vibecamp. We are home many kinds of people: writers, musicians, tech people, massive nerds, meditators, dancers, and enjoyers of life." Caulicamp 3 runs from Jan 23-26

IQ is correlated with being liberal and an atheist, but conservatism is correlated with higher levels of life satisfaction and happiness, so I don't know what to make of all that.

Nerds and terminally online people of Sydney, check this out

A new meta-analysis on the impact of goal setting on performance found: 1. Process goals had a large effect on performance 2. Performance goals had a moderate effect 3. Outcome goals had a negligible effect

I'm a big fan of nasal irrigation. I used to get terrible sinusitis. I do isotonic saline – carefully measured to be in balance with the body. Hypertonic saline would sting a bit but I guess it probably works a bit better.

@RokoMijic Discomfort only turns into suffering if it isn't compensated by enough pleasure at the same time. You can have an enormous amount of discomfort but as long as it's balanced with enough pleasure it is morally fine. But more to the point, neuroscience has shown that negative

Learned that my friend had finished their silent meditation retreat when I got a text: "Solved Buddhism"

I used to find him high-variance. He has great skill with words but in the past he has allied himself with some of the worst people. And then would also make bang-on posts like this. Is he becoming wiser? I hope so. https://t.co/hlGqrCZdgW

End of 2024 Hanania still thought the Dems were worse than Trump. Trump had been in a very short time when he realised how wildly wrong that was. https://t.co/hlGqrCZdgW

@SwipeWright @TheLaurenChen The anti-seed oil evidence and narrative likely has to do with the fact that most highly processed foods—which generally are not good for you and, by design, consumed immoderately—are made with seed oils. So research that shows a correlation between poor health outcomes and seed

Nothing stops a bad guy with a gun better than a firearms licence requirement and a ban on the most dangerous weapons. Empirically speaking.

How's the project management going?

I honestly read this thinking it was a left-of-centre account, before noticing it was Hanania https://t.co/7p4BkACViP

I must not forget that Hanania is a supreme shitposter. And he possibly stirs people up more by dunking on the kind of dumb racists who used to love his hot takes 🤷‍♂️

@mattvanswol There have been 1,550+ mass shootings in the United States since Australia had its last mass shooting in December 2022, Matt.

I've been a bit conflicted about Hanania. Happy to see him finally wake up to the dangers of Trump and MAGA and turn his skill with words against them. But still had him categorised as "horrifyingly racist". Now he's slamming racists, and I'm confused.

When men daydream about being heroes, they daydream about being this man.

This site is so badly stacked against people sharing genuine science around infection and infection control. But here goes anyway: Proper masks, worn properly, work. Repeat covid infections cause cumulative damage. Long Covid sucks.

good example of how mixed use neighborhoods can lower the cost of housing

Prompted by listening to the history of the black box flight recorder (which was more "ignore you" rather than "destroy you" and thankfully the inventor persisted)