list of introspection / life clarification activities

• Things I want to leave in the world when I die

• ‘List of things I think would be cool to build’ like Alex Gajewski’s

  • this is great — fights opportunism! — helps you notice which overton windows you’re waiting to open / trying to help open

    • can be more general: ‘list of projects that would be cool to do’

• ‘Soul document’ like Claude’s

  • your own personal constitution

• Improve your system prompt

  • can be ship-of-theseus-style improvements

• Self-interrogate with Hamming questions wrt research

  • "What are the most important problems in your field? Why aren't you working on them?"

• Schedule some emails to future self

Message me if you want to hang out for 30-60 mins working on one of these!

• you work on yours + i’ll work on mine

• message with when/where/which activity

  • send a gcal inv to lydianottingham31 [at] gmail.com, & i’ll move/cancel if the time does not work

Feel free also to suggest / alert me to other similarly excellent activities!