My best tweets of 2016

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2016-03

Did the productivity intervention work or did the mindset that caused you to try it work? It's probably the latter.

— alexey (@alexeyguzey) March 17, 2016

If you're "postponing" an ughy task but can't tell how your future mental state is going to be different, you're just lying to yourself.

— alexey (@alexeyguzey) March 19, 2016

Credible commitment not to engage in a certain stimuli is tantamount to removing it entirely.

— alexey (@alexeyguzey) March 20, 2016

2016-04

Voicing preferences is dangerous: solidifies them, makes them part of the identity regardless of whether intended to.

— alexey (@alexeyguzey) April 5, 2016

2016-05

"I wish I was doing this a year ago" as a proxy for core values.

— alexey (@alexeyguzey) May 21, 2016

2016-06

On international development: https://t.co/xTAm9Wf3nX pic.twitter.com/eaCtvhfwmq

— alexey (@alexeyguzey) June 24, 2016

2016-07

https://t.co/tC4uH9fYfI pic.twitter.com/sP0JmP8CiJ

— alexey (@alexeyguzey) July 31, 2016

2016-08

"efficiency is literally for losers"https://t.co/Qivqx30QuN pic.twitter.com/wFFqrtIFXf

— alexey (@alexeyguzey) August 8, 2016

TIL Poland took part in the partition of Czechoslovakia in 1938. pic.twitter.com/iBf7OFcMAz

— alexey (@alexeyguzey) August 31, 2016

2016-09

why libertarianism won't work the way libertarians expect it to workhttps://t.co/LktuOrnO53 pic.twitter.com/PzYmUJQqSD

— alexey (@alexeyguzey) September 18, 2016

"countries that produce and sell similar goods are generally more likely to fight"
pdf: https://t.co/76gECbcHSv pic.twitter.com/3JqKHpa534

— alexey (@alexeyguzey) September 19, 2016

2016-10

Jobs Involving Routine Tasks Aren't Growinghttps://t.co/wI1OyxMwyH pic.twitter.com/tmXfPbB5qC

— alexey (@alexeyguzey) October 10, 2016