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  • 10/1/19 » Oct 1, 2019

  • 7/4/19 » Jul 4, 2019

    • Words of the day -
    • What’s America like locally? (Not too bad)
    • A shift toward empirical economics
    • We need more people - we should aim for the biggest population we can support, even if that means average happiness goes down.
    • Letters to Sons
    • Popularity should not be the only metric we use to measure value
    • Improve your SQL
    • Jerks buying up land
    • Hedge funds tracking private jets to find the next mega deal.
    • Every decision at an early stage forms the ethical trajectory of a company due to precedent.
    • Elizabeth Gilbert quotes
    • Depending on the person, late specialization can be a key to success.
    • Look at things from the perspective of the farmer
    • What’s the value of darwinism in the workplace? - “The relief of an easier life can inspire new biological forms just as powerfully as the threat of death.”
    • Jim Mattis - “A wise leader must deal with reality and state what he intends, and what level of commitment he is willing to invest in achieving that end. He then has to trust that his subordinates know how to carry that out. Wise leadership requires collaboration; otherwise, it will lead to failure.”
    • Spotify migration to Google Cloud Platform
    • John Hopkins Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research
    • I was Caroline Calloway
    • Long walk place ideas: Japan, Madeira
    • Profile of Honnold

  • 3/1/19 » Mar 1, 2019

    • Words of the day -
    • Netflix losing a lot of money to subscription mooching (quantified by Mechanical Turk)
    • How China’s social credit system works
    • Quantum computing 101
    • My Grandfather Thought He Solved a Cosmic Mystery
    • Make your own AlphaZero based engine
    • Wealthy and miserable
    • Happiness is about an expectation of positive change
    • How to make the most of small talk - conversations based on observations, interests, shared experiences
    • Profile of a skateboarder
    • Building a community
    • How the information age leads to micro targeting, the fall of higher education
    • Traveling across the US by Amtrak
    • Investing in the apocolypse
    • Best hike in every state.
    • Freddish
    • Robert F Smith
    • Seth Rogen - “A lot of our career is just based on not being their biggest headache.”
    • Dandelion wish factory - Draw people into the experience, no spectators
    • Incel Plastic Surgery - “It’s easy to look back on something and say we shouldn’t have operated,” he tells me. But screening for someone who will never be happy is difficult. “My job is not to be a psychiatrist sitting in a chair. You’re serving a need, and you don’t know the depths of that need.” … He believes each of us is actually three people: how we see ourselves, how others see us, and how we actually are.
    • Someone to watch - Jacob Glanville of Distributed Bio. In 2012, at 31, Glanville took his code and left his prestigious job at Pfizer. He then founded Distributed Bio while also becoming the first Ph.D. candidate in computational immunology at Stanford University. Five years later, Glanville completed his doctorate, and business at Distributed Bio was booming. He now licenses his software and antibody library back to Pfizer and each of nine other pharmaceutical giants for around $500,000 a year and typically receives 2 percent of the profit from any drugs developed using them.
      • How was he able to take his code with him? Doesn’t Pfizer own it?
    • We can no longer escape the past - teenagers should have a moratorium not on experience, but on consequences. What happens if one does not have these lessons early?
    • How elite athletes handle pressure - With repetition, stress can be transformed into fortitude.

  • 1/1/19 » Jan 1, 2019

    • Words of the day - Gamine: A girl with mischievous or boyish charm, Burnish: To improve or make something more attractive. To rub metal until it is shiny.
    • Profile of Mackenzie Bezos
    • English woods
    • Techniques to get what you want in a negotiation might include positive small talk, light touch, offering the comfy chair, and a good smell
    • Amazon liquidation boxes
    • Cleaning up the garbage patch - people want a solution that does not require anyone to make a huge sacrifice.
    • George Soros is a pretty good guy.
    • The history of nut milk
    • How to raise generous kids
    • Unconventional techniques used to create a biography of Lyndon B Johnson
    • Programming zines
    • Ketamine for use in treating suicidal ideation
    • Using AI to create seasoning
    • China’s massive new silk road infrastructure project
    • Topic of conversation when travelling: Netflix
    • Shawn Achor - Cognitive afterimage. Book: The Happiness Advantage
    • Museum of Pocket Art - The Museum of Pocket Art began fifteen years ago with an idea that everyone should carry with them a small artwork in a pocket to enrich their day and share with others.
    • Karl Lagerfeld - “It’s chic, huh?” Brad said. “Yes, perfect for Dubai,” Lagerfeld said.
    • Pain is the fuel of addiction
    • Speaking a language idiomatically is very valuable because people sort others into “us” and “not us”.
    • “You think people start losing their mental ability when they get older. Nobody got a chance to say that about Buster. Buster, to the very end, seemed to be playing better than he had in 20 years.” “He gave everybody the same amount of respect and then he’d beat you.”
    • Frame the weekend like a vacation to be happier - stay present in the moment.
    • How to be successful according to Sam Altman

  • 11/1/18 » Nov 1, 2018

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