Chronological List - j. marshall pittman

# @Kpaxs: Chronological List Profile: [[Users/@Kpaxs/Kpaxs-x-profile|@Kpaxs]] · Topic: [[Topics/LLMs/LLMs|LLMs]] · Analysis: [[Users/@Kpaxs/Post Analyses/Post Analysis - Kpaxs on Judgment Abstraction and the Irony of Automation (2026-11-01)|judgment abstraction]] · [[Users/@Kpaxs/Topical List|Topical List]] > **Coverage.** 50 original posts, quotes and self-replies that X's free timeline read returned for @Kpaxs, from Oct 9, 2026, 10:29 PM CT to Nov 1, 2026, 1:29 AM CT, with other replies and reposts excluded. Likes and views are as of Nov 1, 2026 (CT). It is a three-week sample of about 12,200 lifetime posts, not an archive. One post in it, [the Nov 1 judgment-abstraction essay](https://x.com/Kpaxs/status/2116779622050168960), has a full Post Analysis. 🔎 marks the post with a full Post Analysis. ## Nov 1, 2026 (1) | Time (CT) | Type | Theme | Post (verbatim, trimmed) | Likes | Views | |---|---|---|---|---:|---:| | [Nov 1, 1:29 AM](https://x.com/Kpaxs/status/2116779622050168960) 🔎 | long post | AI, automation and judgment | Buckminster Fuller, who was wrong about a lot of things in a way that was usually more interesting than other people being right, noticed something in the 1930s that… | 1,414 | 57,765 | ## Oct 30, 2026 (2) | Time (CT) | Type | Theme | Post (verbatim, trimmed) | Likes | Views | |---|---|---|---|---:|---:| | [Oct 30, 11:28 PM](https://x.com/Kpaxs/status/2116386794098872743) | quote | Habits, change and the brain | How to act as an epigenetic engineer of your own cells? https://t.co/ObRlxNoC02 | 21 | 3,524 | | [Oct 30, 1:47 AM](https://x.com/Kpaxs/status/2116059442454167985) | long post | AI, automation and judgment | The real danger lies less in the machine that would think like a man than in the man who would stop thinking because the machine does it for him. I call it "Cognitive… | 34 | 3,280 | ## Oct 28, 2026 (2) | Time (CT) | Type | Theme | Post (verbatim, trimmed) | Likes | Views | |---|---|---|---|---:|---:| | [Oct 28, 10:57 PM](https://x.com/Kpaxs/status/2115654173396197841) | reply | Source replies and promotion | Source: https://t.co/Z2Ev8WVyUD — ¹ Want to support me? Subscribe on X & to my newsletter https://t.co/hor4jKxclh | 2 | 988 | | [Oct 28, 10:57 PM](https://x.com/Kpaxs/status/2115654168736047288) | long post | Habits, change and the brain | "Now take a look at your life for a moment. What does this mean for you? If you’re thinking the same thoughts as yesterday, more than likely, you’re making the same… | 40 | 3,142 | ## Oct 27, 2026 (1) | Time (CT) | Type | Theme | Post (verbatim, trimmed) | Likes | Views | |---|---|---|---|---:|---:| | [Oct 27, 9:57 AM](https://x.com/Kpaxs/status/2115095432141377891) | long post | Habits, change and the brain | "Crossing the river of change requires that you leave the same familiar predictable self—connected to the same thoughts, same choices, same behaviors, and same… | 32 | 3,360 | ## Oct 26, 2026 (3) | Time (CT) | Type | Theme | Post (verbatim, trimmed) | Likes | Views | |---|---|---|---|---:|---:| | [Oct 26, 10:37 PM](https://x.com/Kpaxs/status/2114924435933171781) | reply | Source replies and promotion | Source: https://t.co/Z2Ev8WV155 — ¹ Want to support me? Subscribe on X & to my newsletter https://t.co/hor4jKwEvJ | 2 | 922 | | [Oct 26, 12:50 PM](https://x.com/Kpaxs/status/2114776613455822864) | long post | Organizations, management and process | Institutions are replicators. And replicators have two parameters that matter: fidelity and fertility. Copy too sloppily and the institution dissolves into noise within… | 33 | 3,708 | | [Oct 26, 9:08 AM](https://x.com/Kpaxs/status/2114720788385284488) | quote | Habits, change and the brain | “A habit is when your body is the mind.” That's why I like tiny logs. One line a day: what did I feel, what did I do right after. After a few weeks the loops show up on… | 136 | 5,011 | ## Oct 25, 2026 (4) | Time (CT) | Type | Theme | Post (verbatim, trimmed) | Likes | Views | |---|---|---|---|---:|---:| | [Oct 25, 10:43 PM](https://x.com/Kpaxs/status/2114563587209379943) | post | Habits, change and the brain | "Just as thoughts are the language of the brain, feelings are the language of the body." A tight chest is a sentence. A clenched jaw is a sentence. That heavy feeling… | 41 | 3,633 | | [Oct 25, 9:26 AM](https://x.com/Kpaxs/status/2114362937452237012) | reply | Source replies and promotion | Source: https://t.co/Z2Ev8WV155 — ¹ Want to support me? Subscribe on X & to my newsletter https://t.co/hor4jKwEvJ | 8 | 2,025 | | [Oct 25, 9:26 AM](https://x.com/Kpaxs/status/2114362934113763360) | post | Habits, change and the brain | This is the best explanation I've read on why it's so hard to change. https://t.co/RDwHgfIaGb | 1,094 | 36,742 | | [Oct 25, 12:09 AM](https://x.com/Kpaxs/status/2114222845001650320) | long post | Habits, change and the brain | Your brain is already being rewired. The first thing to get straight is that neuroplasticity isn't a special mode you switch on. It's the default. Your brain changes… | 316 | 13,447 | ## Oct 24, 2026 (4) | Time (CT) | Type | Theme | Post (verbatim, trimmed) | Likes | Views | |---|---|---|---|---:|---:| | [Oct 24, 11:09 PM](https://x.com/Kpaxs/status/2114207695867895939) | post | Organizations, management and process | Have your newest hire rewrite the onboarding doc in their second week. They're the only person in the company who can still see the gaps. | 94 | 5,091 | | [Oct 24, 11:50 AM](https://x.com/Kpaxs/status/2114036783465787636) | post | Organizations, management and process | Put an expiry date on every recurring meeting, report and Slack channel: 90 days, then it dies unless someone renews it. Most of them won't get renewed, and nobody will… | 51 | 4,822 | | [Oct 24, 8:57 AM](https://x.com/Kpaxs/status/2113993193507172852) | reply | Source replies and promotion | Source: https://t.co/p9rZbQXO2J — ¹ Want to support me? Subscribe on X & to my newsletter https://t.co/hor4jKwEvJ | 0 | 864 | | [Oct 24, 8:57 AM](https://x.com/Kpaxs/status/2113993191103811716) | post | Organizations, management and process | A process you're allowed to question is a vote of confidence in the people who run it. Steve Jobs called that "optimistic humanism". https://t.co/UtxUzOes9s | 41 | 8,089 | ## Oct 23, 2026 (3) | Time (CT) | Type | Theme | Post (verbatim, trimmed) | Likes | Views | |---|---|---|---|---:|---:| | [Oct 23, 10:06 PM](https://x.com/Kpaxs/status/2113829512286781656) | long quote | Organizations, management and process | Spend two weeks writing down every piece of friction you run into or watch someone else run into. Don't fix anything yet. Just log it. At the end of the two weeks, look… | 381 | 10,904 | | [Oct 23, 2:08 PM](https://x.com/Kpaxs/status/2113709223917891916) | long post | Body and health | The most practically useful thing a sleep tracker does is catch illness before you feel it. Anyone who has worn a tracker for a year probably has a story like mine: a… | 88 | 7,845 | | [Oct 23, 12:23 PM](https://x.com/Kpaxs/status/2113682853070278687) | long post | Organizations, management and process | Keep a friction log. It doesn't need to be a formal one and you can just write a note on your phone or a text file. Now, every time something wastes your time or someone… | 438 | 22,060 | ## Oct 22, 2026 (2) | Time (CT) | Type | Theme | Post (verbatim, trimmed) | Likes | Views | |---|---|---|---|---:|---:| | [Oct 22, 11:37 PM](https://x.com/Kpaxs/status/2113489943813140609) | long post | Organizations, management and process | In practice most people experience their job as a queue of tasks. Tickets come in, tickets go out. And the multiplier question ("Why does this kind of ticket keep coming… | 144 | 6,944 | | [Oct 22, 12:58 AM](https://x.com/Kpaxs/status/2113147898644881412) | long quote | Organizations, management and process | A manager's output is the output of their organization plus the output of the neighboring organizations they influence. The logic doesn't care about your title. Anyone… | 52 | 3,709 | ## Oct 21, 2026 (1) | Time (CT) | Type | Theme | Post (verbatim, trimmed) | Likes | Views | |---|---|---|---|---:|---:| | [Oct 21, 6:36 AM](https://x.com/Kpaxs/status/2112870520194465923) | quote | Life choices and mindset | Intelligence is a multiplier, and multiplying by zero gets you zero. https://t.co/3zRfotXyf8 | 286 | 8,389 | ## Oct 19, 2026 (1) | Time (CT) | Type | Theme | Post (verbatim, trimmed) | Likes | Views | |---|---|---|---|---:|---:| | [Oct 19, 10:02 PM](https://x.com/Kpaxs/status/2112378812440916098) | post | Body and health | Lifting weights is the cheapest available psychiatric intervention. | 450 | 9,589 | ## Oct 18, 2026 (1) | Time (CT) | Type | Theme | Post (verbatim, trimmed) | Likes | Views | |---|---|---|---|---:|---:| | [Oct 18, 10:21 PM](https://x.com/Kpaxs/status/2112021182493147608) | quote | Life choices and mindset | You want a quiet life with a garden and three friends? Great. Do you have it? No? Then something isn't working. And the something-isn't-working it’s a gift because it’s… | 534 | 14,350 | ## Oct 17, 2026 (1) | Time (CT) | Type | Theme | Post (verbatim, trimmed) | Likes | Views | |---|---|---|---|---:|---:| | [Oct 17, 10:44 PM](https://x.com/Kpaxs/status/2111664633903767702) | post | Learning, feedback and practice | How to become good at anything? Pick the thing. Find the fastest honest feedback you can buy, build, or bully into existence. Operate at a difficulty where you fail… | 599 | 14,854 | ## Oct 16, 2026 (2) | Time (CT) | Type | Theme | Post (verbatim, trimmed) | Likes | Views | |---|---|---|---|---:|---:| | [Oct 16, 10:54 PM](https://x.com/Kpaxs/status/2111304914940891462) | quote | Learning, feedback and practice | This is an interesting ratio: time to construct understanding ÷ time that understanding stays valid. When it's below 1, you can know things. When it's above 1, you can… | 125 | 7,315 | | [Oct 16, 10:41 PM](https://x.com/Kpaxs/status/2111301501712736752) | post | Body and health | "Gram per gram, even when sitting comfortably, you are converting 10,000 times more energy than the sun, every second." https://t.co/DyhVbvlv1J | 51 | 4,225 | ## Oct 15, 2026 (1) | Time (CT) | Type | Theme | Post (verbatim, trimmed) | Likes | Views | |---|---|---|---|---:|---:| | [Oct 15, 9:25 PM](https://x.com/Kpaxs/status/2110920121409519800) | quote | Life choices and mindset | Each deliberate departure from what you would do by default costs something. That cost is attention, friction, sometimes a relationship, and the time it takes to set the… | 64 | 3,813 | ## Oct 14, 2026 (2) | Time (CT) | Type | Theme | Post (verbatim, trimmed) | Likes | Views | |---|---|---|---|---:|---:| | [Oct 14, 9:52 PM](https://x.com/Kpaxs/status/2110564534868197404) | post | Organizations, management and process | People design systems for their best self. The version of them who's caffeinated and inspired and just watched a good youtube video. Instead, design for the tired,… | 353 | 8,318 | | [Oct 14, 1:59 PM](https://x.com/Kpaxs/status/2110445530979729820) | quote | Habits, change and the brain | There are two kinds of pain, and one of the most useful things you can learn is to tell them apart. https://t.co/35LufarF3d | 118 | 10,209 | ## Oct 13, 2026 (4) | Time (CT) | Type | Theme | Post (verbatim, trimmed) | Likes | Views | |---|---|---|---|---:|---:| | [Oct 13, 10:16 PM](https://x.com/Kpaxs/status/2110208057439346774) | post | Learning, feedback and practice | I love this concept of push reading vs pull reading. Push reading means you pick up a book because it's popular, or someone recommended it, or it seems like something… | 371 | 15,148 | | [Oct 13, 1:52 PM](https://x.com/Kpaxs/status/2110081160445583865) | post | Learning, feedback and practice | You fail by default. Everyone does. It's not a character flaw, it's the math: the target is narrow and the misses are infinite. So stop spending your self-judgment… | 449 | 9,378 | | [Oct 13, 8:58 AM](https://x.com/Kpaxs/status/2110007382386368959) | post | Habits, change and the brain | Human brain plasticity is pretty incredible. It's so aggressive that if visual input stops, neighboring senses will begin occupying the visual cortex in under an hour!… | 95 | 3,885 | | [Oct 13, 1:03 AM](https://x.com/Kpaxs/status/2109887737532747915) | quote | Learning, feedback and practice | Actually the last point is a very important one because binary opinions are lossy compression. When you ask someone "should we do this?" and they say "yes," you get one… | 40 | 4,163 | ## Oct 12, 2026 (2) | Time (CT) | Type | Theme | Post (verbatim, trimmed) | Likes | Views | |---|---|---|---|---:|---:| | [Oct 12, 9:45 PM](https://x.com/Kpaxs/status/2109837939299500224) | post | Learning, feedback and practice | Main takeaways of "The Cognitive Neuroscience of Metacognition" Space out your self evaluations — Test yourself hours or days after studying, rather than immediately… | 125 | 8,072 | | [Oct 12, 7:21 AM](https://x.com/Kpaxs/status/2109620501291450714) | post | Habits, change and the brain | If a compliment makes your whole week, an insult can wreck the next one. Same wiring. | 147 | 6,353 | ## Oct 11, 2026 (6) | Time (CT) | Type | Theme | Post (verbatim, trimmed) | Likes | Views | |---|---|---|---|---:|---:| | [Oct 11, 11:34 PM](https://x.com/Kpaxs/status/2109502850036539421) | reply | Source replies and promotion | Source: https://t.co/dKYMWRP6CV | 1 | 1,243 | | [Oct 11, 11:34 PM](https://x.com/Kpaxs/status/2109502846366601559) | post | Organizations, management and process | This sentence is a lagging indicator. It shows up after the organisation has already learned that pointing at another team is a valid way to close a conversation.… | 91 | 4,917 | | [Oct 11, 10:49 PM](https://x.com/Kpaxs/status/2109491510517330019) | post | Life choices and mindset | Speed compounds only after direction is correct. Before that, it compounds regret. | 299 | 7,233 | | [Oct 11, 2:03 PM](https://x.com/Kpaxs/status/2109359328784498791) | quote | Organizations, management and process | There's something quietly beautiful about rules that assumes you'll be dumber later. https://t.co/pbOsSoGNhJ | 82 | 7,432 | | [Oct 11, 10:38 AM](https://x.com/Kpaxs/status/2109307746289905717) | quote | Learning, feedback and practice | The best focus technique is stupidly simple: write down what you're doing as you do it. https://t.co/vyF9Ztj0la | 421 | 11,283 | | [Oct 11, 6:50 AM](https://x.com/Kpaxs/status/2109250267963130213) | quote | Learning, feedback and practice | Intensity is the one people obsess over, because it's the only one you can feel. You can feel a hard interval session in your legs for three days. You can't feel… | 136 | 5,451 | ## Oct 10, 2026 (6) | Time (CT) | Type | Theme | Post (verbatim, trimmed) | Likes | Views | |---|---|---|---|---:|---:| | [Oct 10, 11:52 PM](https://x.com/Kpaxs/status/2109144996284948675) | post | Learning, feedback and practice | "You do not improve by training as hard as possible. You improve by training hard enough, often enough, for long enough." https://t.co/tMzvXfS6Si | 184 | 11,842 | | [Oct 10, 11:16 PM](https://x.com/Kpaxs/status/2109136068561789133) | quote | Learning, feedback and practice | Reading has near-zero surprise surface. You can consume a 300-page book and expose nothing. Prediction has enormous surprise surface: every cell in your spreadsheet is a… | 403 | 14,176 | | [Oct 10, 9:39 PM](https://x.com/Kpaxs/status/2109111526217130021) | quote | Organizations, management and process | Exceptional business operators turn every recurring problem into this question: "What mechanism would make this mistake impossible, or at least visible right away?"… | 127 | 5,150 | | [Oct 10, 8:58 AM](https://x.com/Kpaxs/status/2108920193267257651) | post | Learning, feedback and practice | Comfort is the enemy, but not for the reason motivational posters say. In the comfort zone, your error rate drops to near zero, which means your information intake drops… | 329 | 8,365 | | [Oct 10, 4:09 AM](https://x.com/Kpaxs/status/2108847262608560291) | post | Learning, feedback and practice | Feedback latency dominates feedback quality. A mediocre coach standing next to you is worth more than a brilliant coach reviewing your tape next month. | 133 | 5,823 | | [Oct 10, 12:35 AM](https://x.com/Kpaxs/status/2108793638348062899) | post | Learning, feedback and practice | You learn a domain faster by making predictions and checking them than by reading about it. The best exercise I can recommend to anyone is this one who wants to learn a… | 552 | 27,904 | ## Oct 9, 2026 (1) | Time (CT) | Type | Theme | Post (verbatim, trimmed) | Likes | Views | |---|---|---|---|---:|---:| | [Oct 9, 10:29 PM](https://x.com/Kpaxs/status/2108761697016012964) | post | Organizations, management and process | Indicators direct attention, and people will chase whatever you measure. Grove's fix is to pair indicators: measure an effect and its counter-effect together. If you… | 54 | 3,877 |