From: Zachary Vance Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2025 17:24:05 +0000 (-0500) Subject: Christiano Bootstrap X-Git-Url: https://git.za3k.com/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3f3213f522db97b035ca1032fae903d4f423d0a4;p=blog.git Christiano Bootstrap --- diff --git a/posts/christiano.md b/posts/christiano.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b1bf2da --- /dev/null +++ b/posts/christiano.md @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +--- +author: admin +categories: +- Non-Technical +date: 2025-12-30 +tags: +- experiment +- self-improvement +title: The Christiano Bootstrap +--- + +One of my interests is "bootstrap" methods. That is, a minimal set of habits or processes, that when adopted end up making you cool down the line. For example, "study the habits of successful people" might be a good habit. If you do that, you might find yourself adopting other good habits. + +As such, I often ask people what habits lead to all their other habits, and about habits in general. + +The following bootstrap procedure is courtesy to P Christiano: + +1. At the end of the day, review what happened. What went well? What could have gone better? +2. For everything that could have gone better, write down something you will do to make sure it goes better in the future. +3. No repeats. That is, if you write down "Talk to Mary before scheduling lunch", and you find yourself not talking to her and would write that down a second time -- don't. Come up with a new intervention the second time. + +Today's challenge was to try it out, but I set a timer to do it once an hour, rather than once a day, for the sake of compressing it down. + +It went pretty good, actually. + +One of my early failures was that I was vaguely thinking of things I could do better, without having a list or turning them into action items. It's important to go meta with these processes to fix bugs like that. In fact, P points out you don't really need rule 3 for this reason. + +The note-taking app from yesterday was useful again today. + +Nothing big to report, just another experiment.