Space L Clottey
Charting 2021 Growth
Realisations and changes through 2021
June
- First fun birthday
- Watched
- Lightyear
May
- SAT
- Atlas
- Learned how to grind
- The grind saved my life
- Watched
- Sing 2
February
- Read
- Started The Divide
January
- Watched
- Encanto
December
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Realised I was wrong with fight, realised I don’t get to ask others to be empathetic to me. (or basically, I don’t get to claim no free will about myself.)
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Began book club with EAs.
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Met Kevin Wang.
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Started looking to get Airbnb for sleep stuff
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Started hanging out on Discord a lot more
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Rationality -> noticing motives, trust
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Watched
- Amphibia
- Rewatched Community
- Angry Birds 2
- 9
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Read
- Glowfic (started the first one)
- The Elephant in the Brain
- Replacing Guilt (reread)
November
- Revolted against trying to fit in
- Had fight with D about PGP
- I forgot what PGP stands for
- Started more strongly considering [meg]
- Read
- Finished Scout Mindset
- Watched
- Futurama
October
- Started reading the Sequences again
- Made a fucktonne of friends at Wellington (Including Ch and P)
- Realised Meditation good for energy
- Started using leechblock less again
- Decided to start RatSoc
- Went EAG
- Richard Ngo: More conciousnessness, less interst needed (and more tired less conciousnesss). Rare to not be interested in something then work on it
- Web development isn’t high impact
- Praise should be for hard things
- stayed out till pretty late multiple days in a row
- having money is better than not having money
- I actually have things I really want to do with energy
- Read
- Talking to my daughter about the economy
- 50 Philosophical Ideas (started)
- Logic, an introduction (started)
- The Scout Mindset (started)
- Watched
- Big Mouth
- Community
- Coraline
September
- Stopped being friends with Swa
- Started boarding school
- Started experimenting with Melatonin
- Started to go even crazier with noticing confusion
- Read
- Ender’s Game
- Finishing HPMOR
- Freakonomics
August
- Made up with that person, solidified principles on the utility of blocking
- Ran 12.5k
- Bought barbell / Started VR boxing (best VR game)
- Fell in love with the rest of “The Owl House”
- Learned that sleep probably was pretty much definately phase delays when slept until 13:30 and felt great
- Reread HPMOR
July
- Blocked someone important to me but I think it was a mistake
- Ran 10k
- Realised the “Ball of Unmet Desire”
- Rediscovered Solitudes Importance
- Moved back to sleeping in bed rather than sleeping in sofa like last month
- Moved blog to jekyll
- Read Yudkowsky’s Coming of Age
- Watched
- Gravity Falls
- Rick and Morty Season 5
- Some of “The Owl House”
- Read
- Holes
- Running the Risk
- Extreme Challenges
- 60 min
June
- Still working on
post - Regained some respect for Love Yourself and Stoics
- Learned a tonne of programming (made 95% of IncreView MVP)
- Started using Plan again
- Essentially finished
post - Went to running group (and started running much further)
- started using caffeine on daily basis
- met Bernice
- Nosdiet bet with Chris
- Challenges
- 1 vc per day
- 1 hour meditation per day
May
- Created The Mice Don’t Stop Coming meme on YouTube channel
- Started interviewing friends, starting with Xorander (then Pluto, then Minnat)
- Crush subsided
- Created list of 100 challenges
- Made Loving Yourself vow and did forgiveness exercise
- Asked out crush
- Joined Sequences Reading Group ?
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- Philosophy -> science
- Disillusion with Love Yourself and Stoicism
- Coming back to rationality and truth and dealing with reality
- (whining based communities > stoicism + mineflness)
- Above 2 maybe related to 2 hour SuperMemo extreme challenge
- Now almost all of my blog posts from this year seem untrue or based on falsehoods or wrong or unpleasant to read.
- working on long form
post over long range of time
Watched
- Rick and Morty (4th(?) watch)
- Steven Universe
April
- Studying became less painful
- became OK with studying alone (with just focusmates)
- maybe because I have focusmate premium now
- something switched inside brain
- Realised the lesson in [[Reassess Your Constraints]]
- Realised I don’t need to be alert to be happy and to do all the things I want
- Tiredness is a hinderance to your eyes, not to your ability to choose
- Bought The Navalmanack on paper
- Started tracking fict quotes in Brick
- Created Daylight is Mine podcast
Challenges
- No Discord
- No browsing
- 2 hours outside a day
Learnt
- From Tribe -> It’s your responsibility to gauge interest and ask for harsh feedback, saying its accepted once isn’t okay
Watched
- The Truman Show (1998)
- The Iron Giant (1999)
- The Emperor’s New Groove (2000)
Read
- The Lonliest Girl in the Universe (2nd read)
- Finding the Fox (3rd read)
March
- Spent more time outside
February
- Started keeping tasklist in notepad (see [[My Notepad Tasklist System]]
January
- Realised [[Reality Belongs To You]
- Started serious quote therapy with Big Mouth S4