Richard Thaler

Cited multiple times in How to Take Smart Notes (Thaler, 2015) on self-control and environment: Self-control and Self-discipline have more to do with the environment than with willpower, and restructuring the environment removes the need for willpower altogether. Also cited on the “kill your darlings” trick of moving cut passages into a separate “rest” document rather than deleting them outright — a psychological workaround, even though the writer rarely revisits that file.

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