Alexey Guzey's Monthly Update

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November+December 2020 updates
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November+December 2020 updates

Alexey Guzey
Jan 16, 2021
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Hey!

Writing

  • In November, I published The most we can say about earnings of Substack's top writers

  • If you read the paper “Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find?” (pdf) you might be interested in reading a draft of my new critical essay about it. Lmk if so.

100 of my best tweets of 2020

are here. Some examples:

Twitter avatar for @alexeyguzeyAlexey Guzey @alexeyguzey
one of my favorite productivity tricks is putting reminders into the future asking if I continue to follow new... productivity tricks it's easy to discover a new trick that *actually works* but then literally just forget about it a week later for no reason - this solves this!
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January 20th 2020

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.@MelancholyYuga
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January 24th 2020

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@jordanschnyc
play.google.com/store/apps/det… turns any pdf / epub into an audiobook -- most useful app i installed in years@Voice Aloud Reader (TTS Reader) - Apps on Google PlayListen to the app reading aloud or read on screen web pages, news articles, long emails, TXT, PDF, DOC, DOCX, RTF, OpenOffice documens, EPUB, MOBI, PRC, AZW and FB2 ebooks and more. It’s an HTML reader, document reader and ebook reader all in one, both for reading on-screen, or listening when your e…play.google.com

January 4th 2020

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"[in] group who read the information on a logarithmic scale...only 40.66%...could respond correctly to a basic question about the graph (whether there were more deaths in one week or another), contrasted to 83.79% of respondents on the linear scale."
The public do not understand logarithmic graphs used to portray COVID-19Mass media routinely portray information about COVID-19 deaths on logarithmic graphs. But do their readers understand them? Alessandro Romano, Chiara Sotis, Goran Dominioni, and Sebastián Guidi car…blogs.lse.ac.uk

June 25th 2020

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Quote of the month

is from Infinite Jest:

He had tried to stop smoking marijuana maybe 70 or 80 times before. Before this woman knew him. She did not know he had tried to stop. He always lasted a week, or two weeks, or maybe two days, and then he’d think and decide to have some in his home one more last time. One last final time he’d search out someone new, someone he hadn’t already told that he had to stop smoking dope and please under no circumstances should they procure him any dope. It had to be a third party, because he’d told every dealer he knew to cut him off. And the third party had to be someone all-new, because each time he got some he knew this time had to be the last time, and so told them, asked them, as a favor, never to get him any more, ever. And he never asked a person again once he’d told them this, because he was proud, and also kind, and wouldn’t put anyone in that kind of contradictory position. Also he considered himself creepy when it came to dope, and he was afraid that others would see that he was creepy about it as well. …

He pulled his necktie down smooth while he gathered his intellect, will, self-knowledge, and conviction and determined that when this latest woman came as she surely would this would simply be his very last marijuana debauch. He’d simply smoke so much so fast that it would be so unpleasant and the memory of it so repulsive that once he’d consumed it and gotten it out of his home and his life as quickly as possible he would never want to do it again. He would make it his business to create a really bad set of debauched associations with the stuff in his memory. The dope scared him. It made him afraid. It wasn’t that he was afraid of the dope, it was that smoking it made him afraid of everything else. It had long since stopped being a release or relief or fun. This last time, he would smoke the whole 200 grams — 120 grams cleaned, destemmed — in four days, over an ounce a day, all in tight heavy economical one-hitters off a quality virgin bong, an incredible, insane amount per day, he’d make it a mission, treating it like a penance and behavior-modification regimen all at once, he’d smoke his way through thirty high-grade grams a day, starting the moment he woke up and used ice water to detach his tongue from the roof of his mouth and took an antacid — averaging out to 200 or 300 heavy bong-hits per day, an insane and deliberately unpleasant amount, and he’d make it a mission to smoke it continuously, even though if the marijuana was as good as the woman claimed he’d do five hits and then not want to take the trouble to load and one-hit any more for at least an hour. But he would force himself to do it anyway. He would smoke it all even if he didn’t want it. Even if it started to make him dizzy and ill. He would use discipline and persistence and will and make the whole experience so unpleasant, so debased and debauched and unpleasant, that his behavior would be henceforward modified, he’d never even want to do it again because the memory of the insane four days to come would be so firmly, terribly emblazoned in his memory. He’d cure himself by excess.

Miscellaneous

  • 11 new discussions on forum.guzey.com in the last 2 months

  • launch of newscience.org is delayed but it’s still soon

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