What will I be glad to have done?
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Loving-kindness meditation every day for 5m for a week
Resolved
YES
Trying amitriptyline for my chronic headaches
Resolved
YES
Accepting Oxford CS MSc offer
Resolved
YES
Learn to dance
Resolved
YES
Read 1984
Resolved
YES
Coming to Manifest
Resolved
YES
Try Yoga
Resolved
N/A
Trying weightlifting every day for a month
Resolved
N/A
Read all Hugo and Booker prize winners from 2013

I will resolve yes to any option I try, and feel glad/happy that I did. If I regret I'll resolve no, if I'm ambivalent or don't try by close they will resolve NA. I'll try to be biased towards trying new things. I'll also be biased towards resolving not NA once I try something.

If you have a suggestion for an option, comment it and I'll consider adding it, if it resolves yes I'll send you 300 mana minimum, or a reasonable fraction of the utility I got from trying your suggestion if I feel it's higher.

PS I've decided not to resolve any of the options for at least 6 months after I first have an opinion, to give me some distance

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@colorednoise Have you studied at Oxford before?

@colorednoise would you resolve this straight after reading it or after a cool-down period? It's a heavy and depressing book if you get into it but I'd wager most people are glad to have read it after some time. It's one of those books I wish everyone had read and understood, but I wouldn't straight up recommend to most people.

I'll resolve it a few months after reading

@colorednoise I've been having the absolute best time with West Coast Swing, though I've heard there are easier options to start with.

bought Ṁ150 YES

@colorednoise what do you say about this one? 🙃

Hard to see how it could resolve no at this point, but I've decided not to resolve any of the options for at least 6 months after I first have an opinion, to give me some distance

oh. if that were in the description I really wouldn't have bet here - definitely not as much as I did - as now my mana is locked in or I sell at a loss. any reason that's not in the description/resolution criteria for clarity?

well it was in the comments, but you're right, I added it to the description now

I'm coming to Manifest, from Israel, which is quite an expensive flight, so I added it as an option.

By the way, I'll resolve options probably only 6 months+ after they happen, simply because I often change my mind on decisions after getting some distance from them

Seems like I should probably try to learn to dance. Does anyone invested in yes have an opinion on which type of dancing classes I should sign up to? If there aren't any opinions I'll probably sign up to Salsa because I have a friend whose been going for a while and enjoys it

Read all the Booker prize novels for the last 20 years. (Substitute with another award if you prefer)

@Odoacre Maybe Hugo? Though Booker prize might be more novel since I haven't read any of the winners. I think I will add one of these, it's of the proper scale for what I imagined for this market. What do you think?

@colorednoise It's up to you of course, whatever you think would be more interesting. Personally I think I'd do the booker, if i wanted a challenge (while most of them are fine to excellent, some of them are not really my thing and I hate reading books I don't find myself invested in), and the Hugo if I wanted to have more fun. Alternatively you could do the Hugo AND the Booker for the last 10 years.

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eat breakfast, compared to the counterfactual

See the eclipse

@derikk I'm in the middle east, do you think the travel is worth it?

Ask someone out on a date

@Sinclair I think it's very likely that would happen by the closing date anyway based on my base "asking someone on date" rate when single

Spaced repetition reviews (eg Anki)

@derikk Already do Anki daily :) would have resolved yes

my acc balance

Going to take the first Amitriptyline pill now

By the way, if I try something like "learn to dance" or "workout every day for a month" and fail to finish it, I will probably still resolve Yes/No based on if I'm glad I tried it (compared to whatever the opprotunity cost was), and not NA.

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