Things from my friends

Alex is an organized productivity beast (and also a sharing, caring human)

Alex Vermeer

Life-Hacking. Climbing. Striving for awesome. Coffee.

alexvermeer.com

I love Becca's family portraits. She lives in Pennsylvania, so I've never been able to easily send anyone to her, but maybe she travels? Or maybe you travel? Or maybe you’re in Pennsylvania??

Rebecca Sior Photo

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www.rebeccasiorphoto.com

Nevin's first minimal techno set:

Helen is quite possibly the highest quality human I know, though I am perhaps slightly biased.

She has graciously granted me permission me to publish a truly fantastic series of emails that she wrote during an adventure in India in the fall of 2002 (this is the closest I could get to a photo of her from that era).

(I began releasing them serially, beginning at the 20th anniversary of her trip in Sept 2022)

📬Helen's emails from India

Spencer generates lots of interesting content about why people do what they do and think what they think.

Here's a list he made of 10 repeated pieces of advice from highly successful people.

And he also runs this website & has a new podcast:

Mission | ClearerThinking2020

Why do people make choices that they later come to regret? Clearer Thinking's mission is to close the gap between insights from research about human behavior and actions in the real world.

www.clearerthinking.org

And he made this "Burning Man Packing List" which feels like a very similar thing to what I'm doing here.

Spencer's Burning Man Packing List

Sheet1 † = consider buying at Walmart or another store on route to Burning Man,red = must bring to stop death, harm or serious badness,black = should bring to make your trip pleasant,blue = optional, but you should consider bringing Bring as a Group,For Day [Keep in separate sealed bag],For Nig...

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Donny is a comedian who has an amazing comedy troupe that had a show on TBS — I run into his stuff on fb, but maybe they're on Twitch these days?

"Cute House" is a pretty solid intro.

(pretty sure that's his PE shirt from our high school 😂)

Thomas (formerly Tom) is an entrepreneur and is unbelievably inventive and open about his ideas and discoveries and feelings and journey through life:

https://www.facebook.com/tcurrier

Allan is a dirigibles expert at the Smithsonian. His facebook feed sparks so much joy for me. He's maybe the least pretentious artist I've ever encountered (mostly manipulated photos of my favorite town of all time and sticking his own face where it doesn't belong) and he and his fb friends’ commentary are fabulously witty in a way that makes fb seem like actually a really good thing. (I "followed" him on my dad's fb account and I love it when I run across their banter.)

Update: technological advances have improved the situation further: Allan makes the best AI altered images I’ve seen. Funny and brilliant.

https://www.facebook.com/ajanus

Duncan often has things to say about what's happening with people in his communities or in society that seem right to me and aren't pointed out as often as I would want, and it seems like he's doing it in a proactive trying-to-fix-it way. (He also has an impressive way of writing prosocial conciliatory dialogue that often feels out of reach until he writes it.)

I also like that he's so excited about teaching.

https://www.facebook.com/duncan.sabien

Logan: self-described rationality researcher, developer, and writer. I mostly get exposure through my facebook feed, but I think the tips and tricks for people on the spectrum might be useful to follow directly on their blog.

General 2 - Logan Strohl

This is where things go when they're more essay-shaped than Facebook-post-shaped, but aren't ready for Lesswrong. It's mostly rationality stuff, but you'll also find poetry and other miscellanea here.

www.loganstrohl.com

Update: they/he recently had a baby and was gracious enough to chronicle the birthing process and share it publicly.

Logan is also a bit of a super-taster in the domain of chocolate and has shared a nice set of recommendations.

Evan is an incredible (mostly black and white) landscape photographer who works as the curator of the Ansel Adams Gallery in Yosemite National Park (where he's been since 2006(!)).

Facebook

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Sally Anne has been doing some beautiful oil and watercolor work in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. I especially love the time-lapse videos of the magic happening.

Emi is an artist who has been working on human skin for many years, but she’s recently started doing prints that are gorgeous.