Derek V. Schmalenberger

My interests and matterings

• Rewilding and preventing ecosystem degradation
• Addressing the low-effort/high-satisfaction addiction crisis
• Conflict prevention and resolution
• Linguistic structures that aid comprehension
• Knowledge presentation for encoding and recall
• Managing cognitive resources
• Persuasion via honesty and thoroughness (clarity)
• Collaboration procedures and communication protocols

What I consider fundamental virtues

• Considerateness
• Balance
• Tact
• Honesty
• Prioritization
• Composure
• Intellectual thoroughness
• Skill in traversing the abstraction ladder

Questions I consider important

• What do I really know?
• What do I really control?
• What is important to me?
• What assumptions am I making?
• What am I trying to accomplish?
• What are the consequences of thinking this way?

Contact

derek.exposed.shrug355 at passinbox dot com