Aishwarya Goel

A few thoughts follow below. Let's begin with a few of the more important principles, plus a few miscellanea that don't really belong later in the essay. Some of this is repeated later in the essay.

• The purpose of the site is to help me think well1. This purpose is in opposition to many widely-used norms in online writing. I suspect that the

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95% of content consumption is procrastination disguised as productivity.

Most people waste hundreds of hours consuming “just-in-case” content because it’s “interesting.”

Instead, you should consume "just-in-time" to answer a question keeping you from moving forward.

Real collaboration is when someone knows something deeply, another person knows something else deeply, and we put our heads together. We bridge the gaps, we fill in different perspectives, we add in information the other doesn't have. It's 1+1=3. More comes out than we put in.

When we fall in love with someone’s mind, it has far less to do with what they create and more to do with what they direct their attention toward. A relationship with Claude could satisfy me for a time on the level of output––I type, Claude types. When we are not speaking, I don’t know what Claude is paying attention to. Claude doesn’t either. I... See more

1. Don’t Mix High Fats & High Carbs — Avoid metabolic traffic jams


2. Treat Fat Like a Supplement — Saturated fats > PUFAs, time fat intake


3. Use the Fat Hierarchy —
   
   
   • S-tier: MCT, stearic acid (tallow, cocoa butter)
   
   
   • A-tier: EPA/DHA, lauric acid (coconut oil)
   
   
   • B-tier: Olive oil, mac nuts (sparingly)
   
   
   • F-tier: Seed oils, trans fats (never)


4. Leverage Starches

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If you want to sound smart at parties, and make good decisions about SEO, you only need to know two things:

1. Google isn’t good at understanding content. When Google crawls your website, it’s creating a summary of what it’s about based on keywords, metadata, and links. But it doesn’t read and evaluate how good it is like a human.


2. Google learns what’s

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refusals shape lives just as powerfully as ambitions.