If you liked the last article, I'm particularly interested in what you think of this. I put much more effort into this, but the first article got about 2 orders of magnitude more hits.
If you liked the last article, I'm particularly interested in what you think of this. I put much more effort into this, but the first article got about 2 orders of magnitude more hits.
Hey HN, thanks for reading! Jesse and I wrote Conceptually as a free way to discover and learn about important concepts that give us a lens to view a problem, help us make better decisions, or at the very least, sound smart. Last time I wrote something of this nature it took off and got a fair bit of attention (~80,000 uniques), but the problem is that it's not a great way to actually learn something or apply it. So we spent the holiday writing about a bunch of concepts in much more detail, and turning it into a series of emails, 1 per week, where you get more of an opportunity to apply it all (to make use of the spacing effect), though you can also just read the articles on the site if you'd prefer.
We wanted to show you what we've got so far, and would love to hear any feedback you had.
Jesse used to work for Teespring (YC W13), and we both work for 80,000 Hours (YC S15) now, though this is something we did in our spare time over the holidays.
Hey HN, thanks for reading! Jesse and I wrote Conceptually as a free way to discover and learn about important concepts that give us a lens to view a problem, help us make better decisions, or at the very least, sound smart. Last time I wrote something of this nature it took off and got a fair bit of attention (~80,000 uniques), but the problem is that it's not a great way to actually learn something or apply it. So we spent the holiday writing about a bunch of concepts in much more detail, and turning it into a series of emails, 1 per week, where you get more of an opportunity to apply it all (to make use of the spacing effect), though you can also just read the articles on the site if you'd prefer.
We wanted to show you what we've got so far, and would love to hear any feedback you had.
Jesse used to work for Teespring (YC W13), and we both work for 80,000 Hours (YC S15) now, though this is something we did in our spare time over the holidays.
All good points, thanks.
14. Yes, that was a mistake, sorry.
32. Agreed, edited to avoid confusing people.
34. Agreed and added.
46. Yeah, one isn't always discarded. For example, humans are pretty good at compartmentalising.
47. Maybe not a concept, (I'm not one to quibble of definitions - http://lesswrong.com/lw/np/disputing_definitions/) but I feel as though it can be useful. Beyond the formal use, it can be helpful to think about how much variance is explained in a model by any particular attempt. For instance, say someone claims that women are bad at giving directions. Even if on average this is true, gender might only account for a small amount of differences in direction-giving abilities. In this example, you'd want to see some data, but at least it can be instructive to how one might conceptually picture the claim someone is making.