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2026 165
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- Compulsory Fun
- Publishers I Am Begging You To Give Me Something For Pre-Ordering
- Live As If
- Continuous Blood Glucose Monitoring
- How I Lost Weight In 6 Moderately-Easy Steps
- Offputting People
- Speaking Aloud
- I Wish Pollsters Would Ask About Parent-Status
- More Corrections To Previous ATVBTs
- The Artist's Way
- ATVBT October Survey
- Too Many Cups
- How I Feel About Your Policies Depends On How Much Power You Have
- Pizzamaps
- Things I See In Good Relationships
- The Case for Choosing Yourself
- Some Clothes I'm Into
- Some Of You Should Uber To Restaurants More
- In Praise Of Bulletpoints
- How Do You Discourage Nice But Unwanted Gestures?
- Good Deed Paralysis
- Newspapers Laundering Opinion
- Good tokens 2026-09-26
- Judgment Difficult
- Bad Hair Day Of The Soul
- Finding Neglected Books With AI
- PWATL 3
- How Tips Are Framed
- More Foods I'm Into Lately
- If You Shout A Lot You Have No Idea What Anyone Else Thinks
- I Just Found It All Really Fake Before As Well
- Other People's Feelings Are Not My Responsibility, But Apparently My Face Is
- Livestream All Investor-Management Meetings?
- Everything works out. Probably
- Selective Appeals To Determinism
- Maybe Everyone Isn't Treating You Badly
- Gratitude Triggers
- A Few Ways to Introduce Advanced Vocabulary into Your Child’s Life
- Learning As An Adult
- ATVBT August Survey
- People Aren't Thinking About You, Except When They Are
- Once More
- Wasonly the Walonely
- The Great Pretender
- 6 More Selection Effects
- Just A Number
- Should We Tell Our Kids They're Extraordinary?
- Not By Lies
- Some Foods I'm Into Lately
- Reading Alone
- Against Vimes Boots
- Being Normal
- The Cult Will Tell You You're Living Life Wrong
- One Art
- Attributing Weirdness
- People: What Are They Like?
- AskMaps
- Why does barre/yoga/pilates make you sleepy?
- All For One
- People: What Are They Like?
- Sing to me, O Muse, of the Korcci Oil-Free Microwave Popcorn Popper
- Split The Ticket
- The Stomach Keeps The Score
- 1) Literacy 2) Numeracy 3) ?
- Please Don't Tell Me What I Must Do
- Wiki With Me! — Filles du Roy
- Your Name Stock Exchange
- Most People Don't Want To Succeed
- 11 Universal And Objective Truths About Making Friends
- Canta Y No Llores
- Thoughts About Intrusive Thoughts
- Instructive As The Abattoir
- Emotional Literacy
- Fully Gamified Dating
- The Past Is A Foreign Country
- Push Things That Roll
- A Candidate Questionnaire
- The Case Against The Little White Slaver, by Henry Ford (1914)
- Life As An Engine Builder
- It's The Cars That Stress Me Out
- Emotions Are Reactive
- Estimating Land Areas Using Flight Times
- Mixed Feelings About Alcohol
- Internet I Still Think About: The Tim Tebow Chronicles
- Is This Anything? 27
- If Endowment Effects Are Real, Most Advice Is Wrong
- Live Deliberately
- Why I Don't Name Names On The Blog
- Internet I Still Think About: House Hunters
- The Great Disaster
- Objects I've Enjoyed Lately
- Getting Worse
- Maybe Articles Were The Compromise?
- Measures We Need Now
- Remix: I Never Saw The Plots Resolve
- Before Our Eyes
- The Big 3
- Grice's Maxims
- You're Weird: Explorer
- Tips For Presentations
- Working Hard, Hardly Working
- You're Weirder Than You Think
- Evolution Everywhere
- You Didn't Build That
- Some Newsletter
- The Work Undone
- With Me For My Looks
- Would You Like To Give Me Money?
- Van Halen Of The Heart
- Word-learner
- What Are We Doing To Ourselves
- Both Sides Of A Breakup
- 9 Selection Effects
- Making Everyone Mad At Me Re: Cleaning
- Make Footnotes Paywalled
- The People Vs
- Book Thoughts: Talking, Orange, Hearts
- Always On Time
- I got scammed on a refurbished iPhone and it was probably net good for me
- Pantoum Time
- What should you do?
- Three Models Of Love
- Second Opinion with Dr. Dua Hassan
- National Service for 50 Year Olds
- Imagined Communities
- Marble Run
- Make Life Explicable
- A Guide to Umami Cooking
- We Gouged Too Hard
- Penny-Foolish, Pound-Wise: The Other Half
- Songs For Memorization
- Closest Thing To Crazy
- How Bad Writers Are Good
- Corrections To Previous ATVBTs
- Political Parties Aren't Set In Stone
- Slot Machine Lunch
- Bring Back Triumvirates
- Wanting & Having
- 95% --> 100%
- My Tools Are Broken So I Cannot Fix My Tools
- Doctors Shouldn't Be Allowed To Work 28 Hour Shifts
- A Boring Archetype
- Bargains For Me
- How Many Friends Should You Break Up With?
- Why Are We Like This?
- Blame The System
- Some Videos That Get Fed Me
- Send Appreciation Notes To Companies
- Bounty Norms
- More Dating Apps
- You're Stressing People Out
- Math Academy: A Mixed Review
- The Confounder Is Being Popular and Important
- Be Prepared
- Good Tokens 2026-01-23
- Electoral College Travel Map
- Brief Book Thoughts: Sleep, Captivity, Passage
- Hello Again Old Friend
- Is This Anything? 26
- It Takes A Generation
- Kids In Competition
- Scientific Atomsvsbitian
- 12 Ways to be Penny-Foolish, Pound-Wise
- Namespace Clashes
2025 124
- More Dangerous Than You Think
- Book Thoughts: I Just Want This Done, by Raiford Dalton Palmer
- ATVBT Year In Review
- Good Tokens 2025-12-19
- You Might Soon Believe In Aliens
- Six Thoughts About Poetry
- Intercity Uber
- Is This Anything? 24
- Turn Down Free Food
- Getting Knowledge Faster Saves Money
- Good Tokens 2025-12-05
- Is This Anything? 25
- Brief Book Thoughts: Justice, Wittgenstein, Phlebas
- ATVBT Year-End Book-Recs
- Good Tokens 2025-11-21
- Is This Anything? 22
- ATVBT Book Rec Survey
- Seven Thoughts On Contemporary Art
- Good Tokens 2025-11-14
- Is This Anything? 23
- Book Thoughts: The Tale Of Genji, by Murasaki Shikibu
- Holiday Gift Guide
- Is This Anything? 21
- Good tokens 2025-10-31
- Book Thoughts: Healing Back Pain by John Sarno
- Good Tokens 2025-10-24
- How Weird Do You All Want This Blog To Be?
- Is This Anything? 20
- The Real Moral Courage Is Screwing Over Your Friends
- Brief Book Thoughts: Noticing, Pleases, Worthing, Dreams
- Conspiracy Or Coordination Problem?
- Good tokens 2025-10-10
- Feedback Loops Rule Everything Around Me
- Good Tokens 2025-10-01
- Weighted FPTP
- Is This Anything? 18
- 21 Facts About Throwing Good Parties
- The Full Quote Says...
- Good tokens 2025-09-12
- Is This Anything? 19
- Is This Anything? 17
- I'm Not Sure We Should Let 18 Year Olds Sign Long Term Contracts
- Good tokens 2025-09-05
- Is This Anything? 16
- What I Learned From Lifting
- UFO Objections: Extraordinary Evidence
- Questions To Ask Yourself
- Breathe Through It
- Is This Anything? 15
- The Low Hanging Fruit Of Invention
- UFO Objections: Aliens Wouldn't Do That
- Is This Anything? 14
- 80/20 Online Privacy And Security
- Best of N referenda
- Is This Anything? 12
- The Golden Mean
- Trust
- Is This Anything? 11
- The President Pool
- Things Could Be Better
- Is This Anything? 10
- No Sex Before
- Prisoners Dilemmas In Corporate America
- Is This Anything? 9
- Intrauterine Devices
- Learn To Draw With ATVBT
- Is This Anything? 8
- Let People Know When You're Doing Them A Favor
- Person. Do. Thing.
- The Tolix Chair
- The Good Sides Of Nepotism
- Successful Suck-ers
- Requests for Posts
- ATVBT Approves of Approval Voting
- Substack's Secret
- Is This Anything? 7
- Things That Are Inexplicably Hateful
- Hateful Things in 1002 AD
- Is This Anything? 6
- Companies That Record You Should Have To Send You The Recording
- Dating Apps That Could Exist
- Is This Anything? 5
- Thoughts on Standup
- Literary Fiction As Niche Hobby
- Is This Anything? 4
- Remarks On The Bidecennial
- Bruised Peach Problems
- Is This Anything? 3
- All Watched Over
- A Better Birthday Song
- Is This Anything? 2
- Believing Things Your Friends Don't
- VERITAS Subsidies For Media
- Small Thoughts
- How Much Economic Activity Is Cross-Subsidized?
- Coward Fiction
- ATVBT Survey: April
- Who Will Decide Whether The Guardians Need Some Guarding?
- Why That Hat? Investigated
- Raising Bread
- Damn The River
- Hanging Upside Down And Right Side Up
- Natural Selection Everywhere
- Conversations As Towers In The Sky
- Use AI for Slow-Solve-Fast-Check tasks
- Give The New York Subway Stations Different Names
- Risk-of-Ruin Goods
- 80/20 Weight Loss
- Voltaire on Vaccines
- The Half Life Of Memory
- Are You Torturing Your Innie?
- Dog Days Are On
- 80/20 Breathing
- Meta-Surprise
- Ministry Of Silly Walks
- Interlinking Makes Communities
- Best Investments For Everyone
- Why And How We Preschedule Posts
- How To Make Decisions Under Stress
- 80/20 Will Writing
- Making Sense Of Life Through Reincarnation
- Modelling People Smarter Than Me
- Did the Cybertruck Bomber Have CTE?
- Modern Noble Lies
2024 29
- Jethro Tull: A Beginner's Guide To Turnips
- The "Rice Knuckle Rule" Rule
- Baby Money Index - Reader Comments
- New Game: Nomido
- Sleep Setup
- There's a New Country Ranking and You're Not Going to Like it
- Keyword Conversations
- Mr. UFOs Go to Washington
- I Rarely Saw The Plots Resolve
- Progress Studies Conference - I'll Defend Fusion
- Don't Meet Me In The Middle
- Even Good People Make Teams Go Slower
- Additive Domains, Multiplicative Domains
- Incumbency Advantage
- A Nice Little Party Gimmick
- Anti-Rivalrous Goods
- Is This Big? Is This New?
- Dogs That Don't Bark
- Oversample Elections By Age
- Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
- 80/20 Meditation
- If Not Could Not
- The Mystery Of The Pots
- Conversation-Catalysing Events
- Personal Electoral College
- Short Posts
- The Hand-Squeegee Philosophy
- It's Hard To Hit First
- 80/20 Cooking
2023 25
- You (Were) The Top
- The Al Capone Problem
- The Chimp-Pig Hypothesis
- Optimal Suffering
- Magic Cutoffs
- Release Valve Principles
- It's Not A Bad Restaurant, It's A Bad Dish
- I Have Opinions About The Production Of Pizza
- Enfeebling Supports
- Say my name, say mye naym
- Regrets List / Things I Did Good List
- New Book: Book
- Carrot Problems
- Unfairly Angry
- Evidence (p=.05) that ≥15% of Super-intelligences are Safe?
- Doing Things Differently
- Developing An Intuition For Georgism
- Everything At Once
- Spaced Repetition Through Newsletters
- Alien Intelligence
- 80/20 Strength Training
- Privileges and Obligations
- My Cousin Went To Greece Once
- Sometimes, You Should Ignore The Studies (And Just Try The Thing)
- Your Personality Is Temporally Mismatched
2022 44
- How To Host A Gathering
- Model Models
- Associational Value
- I'm Not That Great, Which Makes Me Feel Better
- Hyperbolic Distance Discounting
- It Exists Because You're Like That
- I’m an Independent Thinker —Just Like Everyone Else
- Forgiving Friends' Exes
- Procrastination: It’s the Age not the Size of the Monster
- Easier Questions
- Chesterton Fences and Effective Altruism's X-risks
- Believe Experiences, Not Explanations
- Brave Food World
- Loud & Wrong
- Should Have Kissed Her
- Everyday Meditation Objects
- On the Beating of Children and Other Apparently Fine Things
- Pushing Bundles Of Thoughts Out Your Mouth
- In Praise of Jock Values
- University as a Service
- The Longer It Takes, The Longer-Longer It Takes
- One of the Biggest Stories of the Century Happened, We Just Don’t Know Which
- Believe Everything
- Book Review: Yąnomamö: The Fierce People
- Uninterrupted Work
- We Picked Right with Einstein
- Psychological Debt
- Rags-to-Riches of the Century: Francis Ngannou
- Happiness Is Two Scales
- The Best Prediction Ever: Darwin and the Founder Effect
- Common Pretense
- Negative Opportunity Cost
- Personal Export Subsidies
- When Bits Split Atoms
- For And Against Pre-Scheduling Posts
- If the Present is Better than the Past, Bias Towards Action
- Request for Punctuation Marks
- The Theory of Displacement Value
- Interrupters And Non-Interrupters
- Pareto Chinese: Say Xi's
- Beautiful World Where Are You?
- You Think You’re The Addict, But You’re Really The Dealer
- The Smartest Person
- 2050 Predictions: Eyes, Xi, Apps, Cars, Traits, Bounties