Buster's Notes
002 - Dilemma Round One Results
001 - Dilemma Pregame Commentary
Dilemma Tournament: Team Introductions!
Wanna play an iterated prisoner's dilemma tournament between ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and humans?
What are your beliefs about the nature of reality? V2
What are your beliefs about the nature of reality?
November update!
I analyzed 15 years of testimonials from users of 750words.com to learn how their private journaling habits have helped them
October report! Month one of this experiment in sustainability
A new way to share stats
Want to help 750 Words become sustainable?
48 — Be Buster Benson, BBB, Be Be Be, 🐝🐝🐝
New Partner Program incentives focus on high-quality human writing
New experimental feature: the Streak Fairy
47 — CHALANT! ☄️
A Quirky Clock That Doesn’t Track Time
A Big Linky Map of Medium
How To Coach Yourself
Ideas I'm Mulling
Blog about ideas I'm mulling
This Could Work podcast interview about 750 Words
46: A Blagenflorble Heart
Pocket Tarot
45: Year of Reconstellation
Brackish Notes, Spring 2021
Visualizing our shared mood, take one
A house covered in kudzu
Notes on Tim Urban's epic blog post series, "A Story of Us"
Letter.wiki conversation on White Fragility
Notes on White Fragility, by Robin DiAngelo
Notes on Awakening from the Meaning Crisis, by John Vervaeke
44: Year of the Amateur
An Amateur’s Unfinished Map of Whatever Comes to Mind as This is Happening
750 Words V2 Updates, Timeline, Bugs
One meaningful thing
Why We Should Create Personal Mythologies (and How)
Snake Fables, Book I
What are the qualities of a wicked problem?
We need an alternative to the Hero’s Journey
Working on 750 Words V2
We Now Know Why We Are Yelling!
My book, Why Are We Yelling? The Art of Productive Disagreement
To Argue Productively, Meet in a Neutral Space
Testing the disagreement template
On Facebook, content moderation, free speech, and personal responsibility
The Marvelous, Thinking Fractal That Is Us
8 ways to practice the art of productive disagreement
Ooh look, a book
Podcast tour for Why Are We Yelling?
An alternative to zingers
What Can We Do About Our Bias?
43: All in & with the flow
Pocket Biases
Well that backfired
How I bootstrapped my side project into a $20k/mo lifestyle business
$1/month early bird special ⛅️
Oakland schools are struggling
The Green New Deal is a 1-Pager for America
History of my name
The definition of “emotional labor” has changed
Guidelines for Fruitful Dialogue
The Beginning of a Fruitful Dialogue
The Hippocratic Oath
Can a friendly and diverse dialogue exist between liberals and conservatives on the internet?
Announcing a new friendly and diverse community: Fruitful
30 fundamentals
Equilibriums and Limits: a better way to look at most every political issue
Sarah Mei’s thread about the negative space of technology
History of my beliefs (so far)
Monopoly’s Anti-Capitalist, Socialist Roots as a Teaching Game at Wharton
Should We Be Happy?
A prisoner’s dilemma cheat sheet
Dilemma!
42: Dig deeper
A rational person's 1-minute guide to why rational thinking often fails to persuade people
Great zinger! 💫
41: Seek endarkenment
7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Cognitive bias cheat sheet, simplified
Cognitive bias cheat sheet
Codex Vitae - Better Humans
Life of Clodia
40: Mind the loops
Software vs Humans
How Did This Happen?
Systems Thinking For Kids
39: Make wiggle room
The Element of Irreducible Rascality
Self-coaching experiment results
Better than meditation
Universe ↔ soloverse
3-lane product development
The Technology
38 is great: cultivate quality time
How I track my life
The concept of a person
Smarter than smart
Make better resolutions
Make your own @horse_ebooks
Managing my internet rage
Live like a hydra
What's your life change score?
The Elephants
The death bed game
Know Thy Umwelt
Experimenting with subjectivity
37: More kiloslogs
Celebrate your next death day
If I lived 100 times
1 metric kiloslog
Three cognitive biases walk into a bar...
Too simple, cheap, easy, obvious bias
How to change yourself (v0.1)
Are your habits tiny or huge?
The game of life
My two brains
Our filters
The long slog
$1 for you (conclusion)
Is this your best possible work?
Starter kit for a solar-powered self-replicating 3D printer that can make enough money to buy its own materials, pick them up, and print children when it feels ready.
My 2013 resolution: memento morning
Rabbit Rabbit Resolution Accountability Squad
"Anything is possible."
Codex Vitae
Disconnect Saturdays
A/B fit
What I'm tracking now and why
Zoomed out
Behavior change is belief change
Who you are vs who you want to be
Look, look, look
$1 for you
The "I don't want to" habit
Tweet fearlessly
The half-plants diet
A friendly safety reminder
Why 'Just Do It' is bullshit
Everything I (currently) know about starting and keeping habits in one long manifesto
A duck bears no grudges
36: Talk it out
What I’ve learned taking photos every day at 8:36 p.m.
35: Love the struggle
Spring, Sponge, or Stone?
I'm a techno-futuro-optimist
Why Wasn't I Consulted?
We are paper boats
34: Cultivate the core
750 words a day, or a defense of private, unfiltered, unplanned writing
33: Frugal to the max
32: No problem
31: Double down
History of my self-tracking
30: Higher highs and lower lows
Designed to break
Post-futility
A self-explanatory object
Lazy, distributed universe
Build reputation, avoid credit
An effective individual
Game the system
2003 Old Year Reflections
Month of Mecember
More about purpose
Reputation rank
My first book, Man Versus Himself
Meta-fundamental purpose
Fundamental purpose