📝 Space is getting CROWDED 🚀

Wealth

1/ Nobody is “Objective”: “The hardest thing to do in journalism as the leader of a publication, or even to some degree as a writer, is to maintain your own sense of what is important, and not just be swept along in the tide of what every…of what the industry, the narrative, the conversation has decided is important.” – Ezra Klein

2/ Space is Getting Crowded: “We have a problem as an international community that low earth orbit is choked with debris. It’s one of the things we have to solve in the next ten years. We have to clean that garbage.” – Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA

3/ Being CEO is the Worse Job You’ll Love: “In a startup, if you don’t have 10 new initiatives a day, as an executive, your whole company is standing still, nothing is happening” - Ben Horowitz, A16Z

4/ Early Stage Startup Mistakes: Expanding to other countries, Hiring many executives, Working on different products - Ben Horowitz, A16Z

Wisdom

5/ Focus on What You Can Control: You have a lot more power and effect on local politics than national or international politics, don’t get distracted by the noise – Ezra Klein

6/ Pound-Wise: “The priority is mission success. We will not rush and make stupid mistakes because every one of these mistakes in that environment costs us hundreds of millions of dollars. Saving a day and having six months to fix a mistake, it’s just a bad thing.” – Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA

7/ Building Culture Into Video Games Over 10 Years: “A lot of roguelikes have disconnected things like you’ll have one room that contains a lake, and one room that has a bunch of leprechauns, and one room has some lava, and one boom has a bunch of swords and one room that has whatever. There’s no links there; it’s just a bunch of rooms picked at random. So I thought, well what’s the kind of extreme antithesis of this? And the answer is connections: everything should be connected in some way.” – Dr. Mark Johnson

Health

8/ Americans Are Hurting: 11% of Americans (all ages) had suicidal ideation in the last year. Suicidal ideation can start as early as 5-6 years old - Dr. Uma Naidoo, Harvard

9/ Food Isn’t The Cure, But It’s Where to Start: But can universally reduce symptoms, improve lifestyle and mood, and enhance daily life. 90% of serotonin receptors are in the gut, 70% of the immune system is in the gut - Dr. Uma Naidoo, Harvard

10/ Sorry Pot Lovers: Pot smokers have a higher rate of development of gynecomastia (male development of breasts), smoking marijuana during pregnancy can promote more circulating estrogen in the body of developing fetus - Dr. Andrew Huberman, Ph.D.

11/ Boy Brains Are Due To Estrogen: Masculinization of the brain is accomplished by estrogen, not testosterone – testosterone is converted to estrogen by an enzyme called aromatase (made by body fat and neurons in the brain). Estrogen sets up masculine circuitry in the brain, testosterone controls the display of behaviors later in life - Dr. Andrew Huberman, Ph.D.