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- Jan 24 Active Reading and Annotation Systems for engaging with text — marginalia, highlighting, note extractionreadinglearningknowledge
- Jan 24 Bicycle Fit Proper bike fit for injury prevention and performance — saddle height, reach, stackbikesmaintenancemovement
- Jan 24 Breath and Composure Under Pressure Physiological regulation in combat sports — box breathing, parasympathetic response, composure as trained skillmartial-artslearningphysiology
- Jan 24 Building a Personal Library The anti-library made physical — acquiring, organizing, relating to booksreadingknowledgecollecting
- Jan 24 Teaching Tacit Skills Transmitting knowledge that resists verbal instruction — constraints-led approaches, analogies, and discovery learninglearningcoachingcraftexpertise
- Jan 24 Cooking Fundamentals Core techniques underlying all cooking — heat control, seasoning, timingfoodcraftlearning
- Jan 24 Fermentation Traditions by Culture Kimchi, miso, sauerkraut, kefir — how fermentation evolved differently across culturesfoodculturebiology
- Jan 24 Handwriting Improvement Developing legible, efficient handwriting — grip, posture, practice drillscraftpracticewriting
- Jan 24 Home Workshop Setup Designing functional workspaces for hand tools — from apartment corners to dedicated shopscrafttoolsmaking
- Jan 24 Instrument Practice Methodology Applying deliberate practice to music — slow practice, chunking, repetitionmusicpracticelearning
- Jan 24 Journaling Systems Bullet journals, commonplace books, morning pages — structured handwriting practiceswritingpracticeknowledge
- Jan 24 Knife Sharpening Edge geometry, whetstones, and the practice of maintaining sharp edgescraftmaintenancetools
- Jan 24 Leather Care and Conditioning Maintaining leather goods so they develop patina rather than decaycraftmaintenancematerials
- Jan 24 Listening as a Developed Skill How to hear more in music — active listening, structural awareness, ear trainingmusicattentionlearning
- Jan 24 Periodization in Grappling Training Structuring training cycles — from weekly sessions to competition prepmartial-artslearningpractice
- Jan 24 Spaced Repetition and Memory The science of forgetting and how spaced retrieval builds durable knowledgelearningmemorypractice
- Jan 24 Training Volume, Intensity, and Recovery Load management, overtraining, and sleep in skill acquisitionlearningpracticephysiology
- Jan 24 The Zettelkasten Method Niklas Luhmann's slip-box system — atomic notes, links, emergent structureknowledgelearningwritingsystems
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- Dec 31 Learning Path — Writing & Research A structured path to becoming a capable writer and researcherwritinglearningmetaresearch
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- Dec 24 3D Configurators Interactive product customization — the pipeline from CAD to customertoolsdesigncraft
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- Dec 23 Adverse Selection When the wrong people self-select into markets and systemseconomicssystemsselection
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- Dec 23 Alexander Technique The use of the self — changing habitual patterns of posture and movementmovementposturebody
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- Dec 23 Availability Heuristic Judging probability by what comes easily to mindpsychologycognitionepistemology
- Dec 23 Base Rate Neglect Ignoring background probabilities when evaluating evidencestatisticscognitionepistemology
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- Dec 23 Bikeshedding Why committees spend more time on trivial matters than important onesorganizationspsychologydecisions
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- Dec 23 Carrying Capacity The maximum population an environment can sustain indefinitelyecologylimitssystems
- Dec 23 Chain Wrestling The philosophy of continuous attack — never stopping after one failed attemptmartial-artsstrategypersistencegrappling
- Dec 23 Chilling Effects Self-censorship from fear of consequences — the speech you never hearsystemscoordinationepistemology
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- Dec 23 Cognition How we perceive, learn, and make sense of complex environmentslearningpsychologyperception
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- Dec 23 Comparative Advantage Why specialization and trade make everyone better off — even when one party is worse at everythingeconomicstradecooperation
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- Dec 23 Deep Time Geological and cosmic timescales and the limits of human comprehensiontimescaleperspective
- Dec 23 Deliberate Practice The structure that separates expertise from mere experiencelearningexpertisepracticecraft
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- Dec 23 Diagnostic Thinking The epistemology of repair — how practitioners reason from symptoms to causescraftcognitionrepair
- Dec 23 E-Prime English without forms of "to be" — forcing active voice and precisionlanguagewritingthinking
- Dec 23 Ecological Succession How ecosystems develop through time from bare ground to complex communitiesecologysystemstime
- Dec 23 The Edge Effect Ecological principle — boundaries contain more life than either side aloneecologypermaculturedesignland
- Dec 23 Ecology How ecosystems work — flows, cycles, and the interdependence of living thingssystemsnaturebiology
- Dec 23 Embodied Cognition The theory that thinking is shaped by having and using a bodycognitionmovementphilosophy
- Dec 23 Entropy The tendency toward disorder — why things fall apart and time has a directionphysicssystemsthermodynamics
- Dec 23 Epistemic Posture How you signal what you know and don't knowwritingcognitionrationalitycommunication +1
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- Dec 23 Ergodicity Why expected value lies — time averages versus ensemble averagesriskprobabilitydecision-making
- Dec 23 Explanatory Writing Making readers think with ideas, not just about themwritingcognitioncraftcommunication
- Dec 23 Exponential Growth Why doubling is deceptive — the math that breaks human intuitionmathematicssystemsrisk
- Dec 23 External Focus Attention on the target produces better technique than attention on mechanicslearningpsychologyperformancetennis
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- Dec 23 Falsification What makes a claim scientific is that it could be proven wrongepistemologysciencerationality
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- Dec 23 Feedback Loops How outputs become inputs — the engine of stability and runawaysystemscyberneticsdynamics
- Dec 23 Feldenkrais Method Awareness through movement — learning to learn with the bodymovementlearningbody
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- Dec 23 The First Four Shots Statistical reality — tennis matches are won at the beginning of pointstennisstatisticsstrategy
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- Dec 23 Frames and Wedges BJJ's mechanical principles — using geometry instead of strengthmartial-artsphysicscraftgrappling
- Dec 23 Fundamental Attribution Error Blaming character when context is responsiblepsychologycognitionsystems
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- Dec 23 Gell-Mann Amnesia Forgetting that media is unreliable when we leave familiar topicsepistemologymediacognition
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- Dec 23 Hindsight Bias The illusion that the past was predictable — the "knew-it-all-along" effectpsychologyepistemologycognition
- Dec 23 Homeostasis How living systems maintain stability through continuous correctionbiologysystemsstabilityfeedback-loops
- Dec 23 Hormesis What doesn't kill you makes you stronger — why small doses helpantifragilitysystemsbiology
- Dec 23 Horror Vacui The compulsion to fill empty space — and why resisting it is difficultdesignaestheticsminimalism
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- Dec 23 Implicit Learning Why less explanation can produce better performance under pressurelearningpsychologycoachingtennis
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- Dec 23 Information Cascades Rational herding — when everyone follows everyone else's apparent signalepistemologysystemscoordination
- Dec 23 The Inner Game Timothy Gallwey's insight — performance equals potential minus interferencepsychologylearningperformancetennis
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- Dec 23 Invisible Jiu-Jitsu Rickson Gracie's term for the mastery you can feel but can't seemartial-artsmasterycraftgrappling
- Dec 23 Japanese Aesthetics Design principles that value incompleteness, restraint, and time's effectsaestheticsdesignjapan
- Dec 23 Kairos and Chronos Qualitative time versus quantitative time — the right moment versus the measured durationtimephilosophyperception
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- Dec 23 Keyline Design Water follows geometric patterns — design with them instead of against thempermaculturewaterdesignland
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- Dec 23 Kintsugi Golden repair — making breaks visible rather than hiding themaestheticsjapanesecraftrepair +1
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- Dec 23 Linguistic Determinism The strong claim that language shapes what thoughts are possiblelinguisticscognitionphilosophylanguage
- Dec 23 Load Paths How forces flow through structures — the intuition behind structural integrityconstructionengineeringdesign
- Dec 23 Local Optima Why good enough prevents great — the trap of hill climbingsystemsoptimizationevolution
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- Dec 23 Medical Epistemology How medicine knows — the structure of clinical reasoning under uncertaintymedicinecognitionuncertainty
- Dec 23 Metaphors We Live By Lakoff and Johnson's theory that conceptual metaphors structure understandinglinguisticscognitionlanguage
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- Dec 23 Mono no Aware The bittersweet awareness of impermanenceaestheticsjapaneseimpermanencejapanese-aesthetics
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- Dec 23 Narrative Fallacy Our compulsion to fit random events into causal storiespsychologyepistemologycognition
- Dec 23 Nash Equilibrium When no player benefits from unilaterally changing strategygame-theorystrategyeconomics
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- Dec 23 Network Effects When a product becomes more valuable as more people use iteconomicssystemstechnology
- Dec 23 Nurse Crops Temporary plantings that protect and prepare soil, then remove themselvespermacultureecologysystemsland
- Dec 23 O-Ring Theory When the weakest link determines the whole — why small failures cause total collapsesystemseconomicsrisk
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- Dec 23 A Pattern Language Christopher Alexander's radical claim that quality is objectivedesignarchitecturesystems
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- Dec 23 Phase Transitions How systems flip suddenly between states — the physics of discontinuous changephysicssystemscomplexity
- Dec 23 Pluralistic Ignorance When everyone privately rejects what everyone publicly acceptspsychologycoordinationsystems
- Dec 23 Polynesian Wayfinding Non-instrument navigation across the Pacific Oceannavigationcultureperception
- Dec 23 Positional Hierarchy BJJ's map of dominance — positions ranked by control and opportunitymartial-artsstrategysystemsgrappling
- Dec 23 Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy Organizations end up serving those who serve the organizationsystemsorganizationsincentives
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- Dec 23 Preference Falsification When everyone privately disagrees with what they publicly supportpsychologysystemscoordination
- Dec 23 Principal-Agent Problem Why delegation fails — when your agent has different interestseconomicssystemsgovernance
- Dec 23 Prisoner's Dilemma Why rational agents defect against collective interestgame-theorycooperationstrategy
- Dec 23 Proprioception The sense of body position — the hidden foundation of movementmovementperceptionbody
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- Dec 23 Reactive Devaluation Why we reject proposals just because the enemy made thempsychologynegotiationcoordination
- Dec 23 Reading Material Understanding what materials want to do — working with grain, not against itcraftmaterialsmaking
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- Dec 23 Regression to the Mean Why extreme performances don't persist — and why we misunderstand whystatisticsepistemologysystems
- Dec 23 Risk vs Uncertainty Knight's distinction between known and unknown probability distributionsriskprobabilitydecision-making
- Dec 23 Risk Probability, uncertainty, and decision-making under incomplete informationprobabilitydecision-makingeconomics
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- Dec 23 Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis The theory that language structures and constrains thoughtlinguisticscognitionlanguage
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- Dec 23 Sayre's Law Why academic politics are so vicious — the stakes are so loworganizationspsychologyincentives
- Dec 23 Schelling Points Coordination without communication through shared expectationsgame-theorycoordinationstrategy
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- Dec 23 Second-Order Effects Consequences of consequences — why interventions backfiresystemscomplexitydecisions
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- Dec 23 The Self-Sufficiency Paradox Why complete independence is a myth — and counterproductivehomesteadingsystemscommunityland
- Dec 23 Shirky Principle Institutions will preserve the problem they exist to solvesystemsincentivesorganizations
- Dec 23 Signal and Noise Information theory's core distinction — what matters versus what obscuresinformationepistemologysystems
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- Dec 23 Simpson's Paradox When trends reverse as you combine or separate datastatisticsepistemologycomplexity
- Dec 23 Skin in the Game How exposure to consequences creates competence and legitimacyleadershipsystemsrisk
- Dec 23 Soil Food Web The living ecosystem beneath our feet that makes agriculture possibleecologyagriculturesystems
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- Dec 23 Stacking Functions Every element serves multiple purposes; every purpose has multiple supportspermaculturedesignsystemsland
- Dec 23 Starter Cultures Living libraries of microorganisms maintained across generationsfermentationfoodculture
- Dec 23 Stigmergy How agents coordinate through environmental traces, not direct communicationsystemscoordinationemergence
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- Dec 23 Streetlight Effect Searching where the light is, not where the answer isepistemologymethodologysystems
- Dec 23 Sunk Cost Fallacy Throwing good money after bad — why we can't walk awaypsychologydecisionseconomics
- Dec 23 Survival Hierarchy Saulo Ribeiro's framework — survive first, win latermartial-artslearningstrategygrappling
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- Dec 23 Threshold Models How collective action tips — the hidden distribution of convictionsystemscoordinationcomplexity
- Dec 23 Tolerances The space between parts — precision, fit, and the physics of assemblycraftmechanicsconstruction
- Dec 23 Tools How we make, maintain, and relate to the objects that extend our capabilitiescrafttoolsdesign
- Dec 23 Tragedy of the Anticommons When too many gatekeepers prevent any use at alleconomicscoordinationsystems
- Dec 23 Tragedy of the Commons Why shared resources get depleted — and how communities sometimes prevent iteconomicssystemscoordination
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- Dec 23 The 20-Second Window The mental battle happens between points, not during themtennispsychologyritual
- Dec 23 The Two-Shot Rule Points are won in two phases — setup creates opportunity, finish exploits ittennisstrategypatterns
- Dec 23 Vernacular Architecture Traditional building techniques that encode solutions without instruction manualsarchitecturecraftdesign
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- Dec 23 Wild Fermentation Working with ambient microbes rather than commercial culturesfermentationfoodcraft
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- Dec 23 Zone 5 Permaculture's wilderness zone — where we observe rather than managepermaculturedesignecologyland
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- Dec 22 Goodhart's Law When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measuremetricssystemsincentives
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- Dec 22 Shifting Baseline Syndrome Each generation accepts a degraded world as normalperceptionenvironmentmemorysystems
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Note maturity legend
seed — early sprout — growing grown — mature