Chad Aaron Hall

Spend the best hours of your day on the biggest opportunity, not the biggest problem.

Pennycook et al. (2016b) argue that the detection of conflict with an initial intuitive response is what produces deliberative processing and consequent increases in response time. Evans & Stanovich (2013) have claimed that speed and accuracy are correlated but not central factors in what determines the distinction between intuitive and... See more

Existing media companies will either need to adopt AI so they aren’t undercut by AI-first companies, or derive their value from things AI can’t replicate: appointment viewing, live events, exclusive IP, or counter-positioning as exclusively “human-made.” This is part of the reason why sports rights continue to grow more expensive. Creators will... See more

He said that the pace in which the pendulum swings between desire and satisfaction is what matters most. If it swings rapidly between the two, you get happiness. If it swings slowly between them, you get suffering.

If you write a bad post it won’t get shared and no one will see it. If you write a great post and it goes viral, everyone on the internet thinks you’re a genius. Since content is shared organically, your best work gets way more exposure than your worst. The incentive in these situations is to ramp up variance and do the most interesting writing you... See more

I don't think there's anything wrong with treating productivity literature as leisure reading.