Aspirations
Joar Granström
I aspire to make ideas and software to empower people's capacity to improve themselves and the world.
Applied Rationality
,
Software (esp.
Tools for Thought or adjacent
),
Cognitive Science
,
Behavioral Design
,
Expertise (effective learning/practice/maintenance)
,
Data-oriented Programming
,
Future of Coding
,
Building (yourself) in Public
and
Aspiring Effective Altruism
.
CV
E
ffective
A
ltruism
variation:
Selected Work
2019 - present
Grow Reliable Rationality Routines, reinforced by an Ally.
More reliably practice and apply methods and concepts of rationality, in-contexts of powerful & accessible software instruments, to grow what you, your projects and your allies need the most.
Aspiration:
Improve
accessibility
of applied rationality wisdom to empower more people to more
reliably
apply more capable processes, in compassionate alliances, to maintain and grow themselves and the world.
So far I've done almost everything myself:
Founder, independent researcher, interface designer, software engineer, ✎♫artist.
Some art and many ideas/principles are borrowed from the
CFAR Handbook
. My aim isn't to make new content (yet at least), rather to design a system to use existing knowledge (concepts and methods) more effectively and reliably.
Researching and learning to craft
Collaborative Tools
(aka. attempt to use school time to aid development of
Instrumentally
, to make up for required inefficient time spent on
credential signaling
).
2020 - 2021
Clover Cooked
"To live in clover" means to live well, in ease.
Collaborative Cooking Tool
- empowering through
behavioral design
&
scheduling
Founder and lead of main ideas for Interface Design, User Testing, Presentation, GUI programming. School group project, so I do not stand behind all of the group's design decisions.
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2020
Slyce
Concept for a Tool for Thought
- environment with agenda to practice together.
Independent Research
"So good you could've been my colleague" -
professor at the school Chalmers
Why
Slides
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Volunteering
2021
GeEffektivt.se
(Give Effectively)
Skills
Processes
Roles
Applied Rationality Practitioner
Independent Researcher
Designer of User Interfaces
Designer of Systems & Methods
Communicator
Software Engineer
Visual Designer
Music Composer & Performer
& more aspirations...
Methods
Scout Mindset
CFAR
Your Brain at Work
more
Tools
Epistemic Development
MarginNote
DevonThink
Muse
RSS scholarship
Make models with programming
Drafts
Anki
Figma
Notion
Airtable
Communication
Some of the tools above and:
Affinity Designer
Descript
LumaFusion
Keynote
English
- Fluent
Swedish
- Native
Background
2015 - 2021
Higher Education
2017 - 2021
2015 - 2017
Psychology
at
GU
, before pivoting to Computer Science with initial aims to learn skills for
AI Safety Research
.
2013 - present
Exploration & Skill Building during much of free time
Areas of Focus:
1996 - 2013
Creative Childhood
Skipped 9th grade and started school 1 year early.
Explored & Designed
original music
Symphony orchestra
Selections
(some updates during free time post 2013)
Performed
music a lot, live audiences up to ~1000 people.
If you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself and let rationality help.
Thanks to my
Inspirations
, for
motivating
me and
showing
me your shoulders to stand on.
Thanks to my
Support
, for giving me time to explore, experiment, fail, cope with reality and grow mentally secure to grow myself and the world some more.
I'd love to grow stronger and am open to any honest feedback you'd like to give me anonymously (or not, I appreciate both!)
here
.
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