Once, I went to talk about "curiosity" with @LoganStrohl. They noted "it seems like you have a good handle on 'active curiosity', but you don't really do much diffuse 'open curiosity.'" The convo went on for awhile, and felt very insightful.

(I may not be remembering details of this convo right. Apologies to Logan)

Towards the end of the conversation, I was moving to wrap up and move on. And Logan said "Wait. For this to feel complete to me, I'd like it if we translated this into more explicit TAPs. TAPs or it didn't happen."

You can get a new insight. But, if the insight doesn't translate into some kind of action you're going to do sometimes, there is a sense in which it didn't matter. And people mostly fail to gain new habits. If you're going to have a shot in hell of translating this into action, it's helpful to have some kind of plan.

Recap on TAPs

"TAP" stands for "Trigger Action Pattern", and also "Trigger Action Plan." A TA-Pattern is whatever you currently do by default when faced with a particular trigger. A TA-Plan is an attempt to install a TA-Pattern on purpose.

To turn [...]

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Outline:

(01:04) Recap on TAPs

(04:00) Turning Takeaways into TAPs

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First published:
April 12th, 2026

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/LZMcayhqyAPiyBpnx/taps-or-it-didn-t-happen

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

“TAPs or it didn’t happen” by Raemon

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