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10/21/2024

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[Inverted Passion] Getting things done by not trying

Here's a new post on InvertedPassion.com Getting things done by not trying By Paras Chopra on Oct 20, 2024 09:29 am I recently finished a very short book with an intriguing title: Why Greatness

9/10/2024

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[Inverted Passion] What bootstraps intelligence?

Here's a new post on InvertedPassion.com What bootstraps intelligence? By Paras Chopra on Sep 10, 2024 02:19 am A musing on how intelligence comes to be. The bedrock of intelligence is abstractions

9/2/2024

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[Inverted Passion] Not everything is physics

Here's a new post on InvertedPassion.com Not everything is physics By Paras Chopra on Sep 01, 2024 08:29 am The first book I ever read was The Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking. I liked it

7/8/2024

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[Inverted Passion] Usefulness grounds truth

Here's a new post on InvertedPassion.com Usefulness grounds truth By Paras Chopra on Jul 07, 2024 09:38 am Are LLMs intelligent? Debates on this question often, but not always, devolve into debates

5/17/2024

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[Inverted Passion] You can’t jail an AI

Here's a new post on InvertedPassion.com You can't jail an AI By Paras Chopra on May 17, 2024 01:58 am Here's why I worry about AI. We know that people can get away with anything to pursue

5/13/2024

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[Inverted Passion] How to be a messy thinker

Here's a new post on InvertedPassion.com How to be a messy thinker By Paras Chopra on May 12, 2024 05:56 am I love thinking about thinking. Give me a research paper on rationality, cognitive biases

2/28/2024

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[Inverted Passion] Why time seems to pass faster as we age

Here's a new post on InvertedPassion.com Why time seems to pass faster as we age By Paras Chopra on Feb 27, 2024 05:01 am 1/ I've been mega-obsessed with this feeling. A year as a 36-year-old

1/23/2024

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[Inverted Passion] A primer on dopamine

Here's a new post on InvertedPassion.com A primer on dopamine By Paras Chopra on Jan 22, 2024 07:54 am 1/ I recently made notes on the book “Hooked” but wasn't satisfied by the depth of

1/1/2024

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[Inverted Passion] Review of 2023

Here's a new post on InvertedPassion.com Review of 2023 By Paras Chopra on Dec 31, 2023 06:33 am Time is strange – 2023 simultaneously felt too long and too short. It was short because I remember

12/29/2023

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[Inverted Passion] Notes from the book “Hooked”

Here's a new post on InvertedPassion.com Notes from the book “Hooked” By Paras Chopra on Dec 28, 2023 04:29 am I re-read the book Hooked by Nir Eyal and these are my notes. 1/ The key question that

12/15/2023

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[Inverted Passion] Notes on how Facebook ads work

Here's a new post on InvertedPassion.com Notes on how Facebook ads work By Paras Chopra on Dec 15, 2023 02:39 am I was studying Facebook ads system for Nintee, made some notes that you might find

12/8/2023

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[Inverted Passion] Notes on how Supercell is run

Here's a new post on InvertedPassion.com Notes on how Supercell is run By Paras Chopra on Dec 07, 2023 04:19 am Supercell, the company behind the massively popular Clash of Clans game, has one of

9/4/2023

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[Inverted Passion] Notes from the book “Decoding the Why”

Here's a new post on InvertedPassion.com Notes from the book “Decoding the Why” By Paras Chopra on Sep 03, 2023 08:03 am Finished (well, skimmed) the book “Decoding the Why: How Behavioral Science

8/21/2023

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[Inverted Passion] Notes from the book “Magic Words”

Here's a new post on InvertedPassion.com Notes from the book “Magic Words” By Paras Chopra on Aug 19, 2023 07:58 am Just finished reading Magic Words by Jonah Berger and my notes follow. /> 1/

7/24/2023

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[Inverted Passion] Why you will skim this article

Here's a new post on InvertedPassion.com Why you will skim this article By Paras Chopra on Jul 23, 2023 06:30 am Most likely, you're going to read this sentence and hit the back button. Still

5/15/2023

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[Inverted Passion] Don’t sell your soul to the algorithm

Here's a new post on InvertedPassion.com Don't sell your soul to the algorithm By Paras Chopra on May 14, 2023 04:54 am The danger of pleasing the algorithm to go viral is that gradually you

4/24/2023

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[Inverted Passion] Games are problems people pay to solve

Here's a new post on InvertedPassion.com Games are problems people pay to solve By Paras Chopra on Apr 22, 2023 04:18 am Good definitions are powerful. Lately, while reading The Art of Game Design,

3/27/2023

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[Inverted Passion] The Anti-Productivity Manifesto

Here's a new post on InvertedPassion.com The Anti-Productivity Manifesto By Paras Chopra on Mar 25, 2023 04:30 am After a barrage of recommendations on my twitter, I finally ended up reading Oliver

3/6/2023

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[Inverted Passion] Wealth is not money, it’s the things we use money for

Here's a new post on InvertedPassion.com Wealth is not money, it's the things we use money for By Paras Chopra on Mar 04, 2023 03:42 am As an entrepreneur, money is obviously a massive

2/20/2023

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[Inverted Passion] You can only succeed if you know how you can fail

Here's a new post on InvertedPassion.com You can only succeed if you know how you can fail By Paras Chopra on Feb 18, 2023 06:01 am We want to be successful with our decisions. Even though failure