Means-Ends, Conditions-Consequences, and the Game of Risk
Most Western strategic thought takes place in a means-ends framework. In this post, I’ll discuss an alternative to means-ends strategic thinking: conditions-consequences.
Category: Essays
The essays shared on my blog are typically longer-form writing, with a high bar for quality.
Monasteries Bibliography
The longer I train in monasteries, the more I become interested in monasteries as social institutions, and in aspects that are incidental to their purpose. This includes the social, political, economic, technological, and historical dimensions of monasteries.
The Distraction Algorithm
In this post, we’ll look at a practical example of a meditation technique that makes explicit use of algorithms, Soryu Forall’s Distraction Algorithm.
Optimizing Mindfulness
What exactly does optimizing mindfulness mean?
Strategy Club
For the better part of the last year, we’ve been running a “Strategy Club”, a long-running Anti-Book Club with a focus on learning and applying strategy.
Disfluency and the Methods of Strategy
For me, learning about disfluency has taken the pressure off of learning strategy “correctly.”
Monastic Strategy
If you’re interested in strategy, this post will be valuable to you. It shares the the tools that I’ve found most valuable so far.
Meditation and Algorithms
Algorithms may not be something you would normally associate with meditation, but they are an extremely powerful way to understand meditation.
The Art of Alliances
This post contains some of the best practices I’ve discovered in developing my own skill in the art of alliances.
Of Probabilistic Thinking and Databases
I don’t think of myself as a betting man, so I was surprised to learn that in fact, we’re making bets all of the time. This is Annie Duke’s main thesis in Thinking in Bets.