Life Advice Repository

I'd say Elo's sleep advice and useful apps threads belong on here, as well as that thread a while back about scientific ways to get over a breakup.

Do we have a basic financial literacy category? It's perhaps well known to most LW-ers but I know we get the occasional aspiring rationalist high school / early college student and this stuff really isn't taught in school.

Repository repository thread, for reference. edit: I can't read

Could one say that the human brain works best if it is slightly optimistically biased, just enough to have benefits of the neuromodulation accompanied with positive thinking, but not so much that false expectations have a significant potential to severely disappoint you? Are there some recommended sequences/articles/papers on this matter?

Parenting advice: The applicable threads aren't short on useful advice, but it's not really on parenting - more philosophical. Quite dissapointing. The notable exception, and I don't apologise to his naive contemporaries is Gunnar's work.

Believe it or not, The UN ranks parenting styles, allegedly, and the Triple P program tops the list.

It's useful for special needs parenting and regular parenting and for the rare and special breed that are parenting researchers.

One only has to google 'evidence based parenting' and see the Blogspot blog topping the list as a starter indication of the paucity of actual academic parenting research, in spite of the apparent lucrativity of entering the field. I suspect many young researchers or grad students specialise in an area too early, and do not get serious around relations young when many are starting our research, to consider the importance of parenting research.

All LessWronger's thoughts on these matters appreciated.

Life advice..?

Future is uncertain, eat dessert first.

:-P