Curiosities
“An obstacle downstream propagates upstream. if you’re not allowed to implement new ideas, you stop having them.” — paulg
Essays
In reverse chronological order (* = effortpost)
2026
- 03/01 — I finally figured out what I want to work on
- 02/23 — Learning to problem solve (or, notes on olympiads)
- 02/07 — How to discover RNA drugs with AI
- 01/18 — You don’t need permission to make progress*
- 01/09 — Building a drug screening model for RNA therapeutics
2025
- 12/24 — Measuring g with a pendulum
- 12/23 — Anki has fundamentally changed how I learn
- 11/22 — Introduction to science funding
- 07/22 — What is self-deceit?
- 04/01 — Principles
- 03/30 — Towards knowledge, people, and wonder
Working notes
Jumble of topics I’m thinking about. If you have any thoughts, I’d love to hear them!
- How does thinking work?? What is the space of every way we are working towards that question? Is superintelligence plausible?
- How do we fix aging?
- How to learn problem solving (especially physics/coding olys) faster?
- How do we reach reversible cryopreservation↗?
- Can we scientifically study meditation↗?
- Is rationality practically useful?
- What’s the best way to teach kids problem-solving?
- Are there better funding processes in science?
- Thoughts on effective altruism