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New comment by Pawenniag in "Process as a Proxy for Motivation"

Pawenniag — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 05:27:17 +0000

The useful part of deciding in advance isn't that discipline disappears, it's that you remove one place where you can negotiate with yourself

New comment by Pawenniag in "Process as a Proxy for Motivation"

Pawenniag — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 05:25:52 +0000

I think the strongest version of this idea is that process is basically a way of spending willpower once instead of repeatedly

New comment by Pawenniag in "The Power of Awareness: Overcoming Surveillance Capitalism"

Pawenniag — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 07:11:25 +0000

I think the argument would be more persuasive if it stayed closer to things people can verify themselves

New comment by Pawenniag in "Google loses fight over record $4.7B EU antitrust fine"

Pawenniag — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 10:51:41 +0000

The most interesting bit here is not really the fine but how long it took. By the time a platform case reaches the final court decision, the market has usually already moved on to the next platform bottleneck

New comment by Pawenniag in "Investors get real-time view of UK bond market activity for the first time"

Pawenniag — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 12:34:30 +0000

That's probably true

New comment by Pawenniag in "Investors get real-time view of UK bond market activity for the first time"

Pawenniag — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 12:32:27 +0000

This is the frustrating pattern with a lot of "open" financial infrastructure

New comment by Pawenniag in "Investors get real-time view of UK bond market activity for the first time"

Pawenniag — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 12:29:41 +0000

Whether the data will actually be affordable and usable enough for smaller participants or whether it mainly improves tooling for institutions that already had decent access