Thinking Better

Why you're not who you claim to be

Stories help us make sense of the world, but they too are just patterns.

Jun 10 • 

Robert Yi 🐳

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January 2025

Oh the places you'll go [as a startup founder]

The five stages of startup delusion: denial, denial, denial, denial, denial

Jan 28 • 

Robert Yi 🐳

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September 2024

The unreasonable effectiveness of learning to unblock yourself

And how to do it

Sep 3, 2024 • 

Robert Yi 🐳

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August 2024

Anxiety is a superpower

Some thoughts on anxiety from repeatedly trying to fly

Aug 27, 2024 • 

Robert Yi 🐳

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What is your default state?

Finding free will within the confines of neurochemical puppetry

Aug 20, 2024 • 

Robert Yi 🐳

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A system for hard things

The easiest way to do hard things is to learn to love doing them

Aug 13, 2024 • 

Robert Yi 🐳

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Money and happiness

What the studies seem to actually say

Aug 6, 2024 • 

Robert Yi 🐳

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July 2024

You can sit and do nothing

It's a valid option.

Jul 30, 2024 • 

Robert Yi 🐳

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Why can't I do the important things?

Like: why can't I just sit with my daughter? I know there's nothing more important, but for some reason I don't actually know it.

Jul 23, 2024 • 

Robert Yi 🐳

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Concepts and conditioning

Let's talk about the gaping singularity at the center of everything that we're evolved to ignore

Jul 16, 2024 • 

Robert Yi 🐳

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Meaning, where are you?

No one should decide what your life is about but you

Jul 9, 2024 • 

Robert Yi 🐳

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First principles thinking

How to think from first principles, from first principles.

Jul 2, 2024 • 

Robert Yi 🐳

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