^ one thing you can do right now if you claim to want to, e.g. write more, is to identify the smallest concrete goal you can fully commit to without the ability to come up with an excuse afterwards (e.g. to spend 1 hour on Saturday / 10 minutes every day writing for a week; to send a newsletter with at least 200 words by the end of the week) and commit to give $x0 to a friend of relative who can hold you accountable in case you fail. If you aren’t willing to commit $x0 to write 10 minutes per day for a week, then you do not want to write.
If you say that you “want to write but don’t know what to write”, you should either figure out what you want to write, figure out how to figure out what you want to write (and maybe commit to do that first) or accept that you don’t want to write. … I should write a blog post about this. Are there conditions in which the trick I described above fails?
^ There’s so much public pressure on FDA to approve drugs, especially cancer drugs (because otherwise people will say that FDA prevents them from using this revolutionary new drug), that the standards for clinical trials are basically non-existent (this take is mostly my [exaggerated] interpretation of Vinay Prasad)
Best of Twitter - Week of May 18, 2020 - do you have a forcing function for your project?
Best of Twitter - Week of May 18, 2020 - do you have a forcing function for your project?
Best of Twitter - Week of May 18, 2020 - do you have a forcing function for your project?
^ one thing you can do right now if you claim to want to, e.g. write more, is to identify the smallest concrete goal you can fully commit to without the ability to come up with an excuse afterwards (e.g. to spend 1 hour on Saturday / 10 minutes every day writing for a week; to send a newsletter with at least 200 words by the end of the week) and commit to give $x0 to a friend of relative who can hold you accountable in case you fail. If you aren’t willing to commit $x0 to write 10 minutes per day for a week, then you do not want to write.
If you say that you “want to write but don’t know what to write”, you should either figure out what you want to write, figure out how to figure out what you want to write (and maybe commit to do that first) or accept that you don’t want to write. … I should write a blog post about this. Are there conditions in which the trick I described above fails?
^ true
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^ There’s so much public pressure on FDA to approve drugs, especially cancer drugs (because otherwise people will say that FDA prevents them from using this revolutionary new drug), that the standards for clinical trials are basically non-existent (this take is mostly my [exaggerated] interpretation of Vinay Prasad)
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