Hi, I’m Alex.

Things I’ve written up to share:

• What I Reach Fortap-through short prompts for hard moments: tap Just help, or too much, too little, or stuck
• Connection Gamesread my hosting guide: Authentic Relating games and question decks
• Questionslist questions to get to know someone, from small talk to depth
• Decisionsread how I make decisions: FIRE, WRAP, and analysis-paralysis questions
• Emotional First Aidreference in-the-moment tactics for strong emotions, e.g. overwhelm
• Emotional Regulationreference a playbook of procedures for lowering neuroticism
• Personal Training Exercisestimer · log notes from past PT sessions: stretches and a lower body day, with a timer, a lift log, and form drawings
• Growth Modalitiesmap an explorable map of 158 personal growth methods
• Nootropicsmap an evidence map of 67 nootropics, common prescriptions, and habits, graded by goal
• Favorite Toolslist the full list, with referral links

• Writing
  draftcorgi.substack.com
• Podcast
  codercorgi.substack.com
• ProjectsUpping My P(doom), Explained · every reference in an AI-doom song, explained line by line
• Social
• Music
• Occasionally updated
• All my linksbeacons.ai/codercorgi

Things I’ll happily talk about for an hour include:

• Connection
  • connection games
  • authentic relating
  • T group sentence stems
  • models like spiral dynamics
• Sensemaking
  • ikigai
  • AI infra investing
• Lifestyle
  • traveling
  • nomading
  • sardines
  • keto/carnivore diet
• Experiential
  • nootropics
  • ecstatic dance
  • contact improv
  • platonic cuddling

Norms I love in conversation. If these sound fun, we’ll probably get along.

• PrecisionI’ll ask “what’s the likelihood?” and love a rough probability back. A range beats a yes/no.
• Emotional honestya conversation is a pool of shared meaning, and feelings are meaning, so they count as substance. No obligation to share, ever.
• How/what questionsinterrupt me with them, including to call me out. “What makes you say that?” lands better than “that’s wrong” and doesn’t turn into attack and defend.
• “Oops, my bad”say it liberally. Merely conceding a point is win-lose; actually changing a mind, mine or yours, is win-win.
• Handwavey is fine tooif you’re vague, I’ll try to catch what you mean instead of pinning you down.

Above all, pragmatic: formalize when it helps, let it go when it doesn’t.

Inspiring communities for meaning-making:

• Global
  • TPOT
  • Effective Altruism
  • Socratica
  • Network School
• Seattle
  • VibeSeattle
  • Fractal/Tetra Seattle
  • INTDEV
  • OmCulture
  • AI House
• San Francisco Bay Area
  • The Commons
  • Mox SF
  • Frontier Tower
  • SundaysInSF
  • Lighthaven
• New York
  • Fractal NYC
  • Merlin’s Place
  • OBNYC
• Austin
  • OneSalon
  • T groups
  • Relateful Austin
  • Casa de Luz
  • LessWrong Austin
  • Ledgeway

More community links: curius.app/alex-yun/communities

• Granola: AI-native note-taking for meetings. 2 months free
  Favorite features: AI-enhanced meeting notes, and asking AI questions about the transcript in real time.
• Curius: a shared library for bookmarks; annotate readings with friends.
  My reading recs (work in progress).
• NotebookLM: interactive audio podcasts (and more) from your sources, free.
• uBlock Origin: the best ad blocker.
• fmhy.net: the most up-to-date links to free-media sites.
• Reflect: second-brain-style note-taking.
  Free for .edu via reflect.app/student. See also their note-taking app comparison.

Also: Google’s tools for commenting, and Notion for more complicated things.

More, with referral links: Favorite Tools