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Which reminds me of Ted Chiang's story "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling"[1] about exactly this tension.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Truth_of_Fact,_the_Truth_o...

I've been fasting one day a week (24h and recently closer to 36h) for a little over a year now. The first few times were hard to get through, and at first I experienced the next-day binge you describe. The worst part was having trouble sleeping through the second night of a longer fast.

After a few repetitions I got used to it. I don't feel like stuffing myself the next day. The hunger during fasting is still there, but it's much easier to deal with now. And sleeping during a longer fast is starting to feel easier now that I do that more consistently.

So you might want to try again once or twice and let your body adjust. Or not—ultimately you have to find something that works for you.

There's a fair amount of overlap between David Chapman's views and the LW memeplex, though see his response[0] to what he calls "Pop Bayesianism" from a couple years ago. I remember getting a lot out of that essay, maybe even changing my mind a bit.

[0]: http://meaningness.com/metablog/how-to-think

This connection—between earning money and providing value to others—is something that sounds obvious, but I only really internalized it recently, after reading Kevin Simler's Congolese Trading Window thought experiment[1].

It would be easy to take this line of reasoning into dangerous territory and suppose that earning money is equivalent to being morally virtuous, but this neglects externalities and the sometimes fundamental difficulty of accurately pricing certain kinds of goods (subjective wellbeing, community, a sense of meaning, etc.). Money is, at best, a very rough proxy measure for human value.

[1] http://www.meltingasphalt.com/wealth-the-toxic-byproduct/

Yeah, some habits (like exercise and sleeping well) are mutually reinforcing and it can be hard to introduce either one in isolation.

Reminds me of this attempt[0] I recently ran across to identify the central nodes of a habit network. A neat idea, and one I hadn't seen before, despite a pretty good familiarity with the literature of habit formation.

[0] https://medium.com/forte-labs/mapping-the-habit-graph-13e851...

Indeed, when I clicked on the link I irrationally expected some kind of comparison between Nim positions and Go endgames. Color me disappointed.

I ordered a box recently and they're not bad, as energy bars go. A little too sweet for my taste.

My most recent one was Maroon 5's "you got to lose that jacket / you got to lose that jacket / you got to lo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-ose that jacket".

About $350 in the first month of Double Dynamo (http://doubledynamo.com/), a memory and rhythm game for iOS. I haven't put significant work into viral features, which could probably substantially increase installs, but at this point I've put the project on the back burner.