CFAR
- The Center for Applied Rationality
- I attended their Jan 2013 workshop, then volunteered at many other workshops in 2013 & 2015
- I also went to these tier-2 workshops:
- May 2015 Hamming Workshop (in Boston)
- January 2016 Mentor Training Workshop
- March 2016 Yin Workshop
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Don't Pay For Options You Don't Want
- One of the longest-running courses that CFAR teaches is called goal-factoring. The basic jist is one that shows up in lots of places:
- ask yourself "why?" in relation to something you're doing or considering doing
- keep asking yourself "why?" until you get deeper whys
- ask yourself if there might be more effective ways of achieving those whys
- possibly by combining them in new ways
- try doing those instead