WEALTH

How Bitcoin SHOULD be Adopted (if it's working): “Bitcoin adoption should be inversely correlated with the rule of law”. Countries with a predictable rule of law should have less Bitcoin adoption—and vice versa. – Keith Rabois

The PayPal Mafia Did NOT Have Their Acts Together: PayPal was a great success story but on a scale of one to sh4tshow, “it was a complete sh$tshow”. They had three CEOs in four months. In August 2000, they had burn rate of $10 million per month and only $30 million in the bank in the middle of the internet bubble collapse – Keith Rabois

Metcalf’s Law: a network’s impact is the square of the number of nodes in the network

Lessons From A Full Scale Cancelation Attack: “I got to see the wiring under the machine on how the rest of media would try to take me out”. It’s easy to be adversarial, it’s hard to be empathetic.  Traditional media outlets don’t spend much time on the latter  – Joe Rogan


HEALTH

Keith Rabois’ Optimized Health Equation = vanity + life extension + performance

Train Smarter: increase the intensity and reduce the time; workouts generally shouldn’t last more than an hour unless you are lifting heavy and rests are longer – Jeff Cavaliere

How to Approach Eating: largest portion = fibrous carbohydrates (e.g., broccoli, brussels sprouts, asparagus, etc.); second-largest portion = protein (e.g., clean sources – chicken, fish, meat, etc.); smallest portion = starchy carbohydrates (e.g., sweet potatoes, rice, etc.) – Jeff Cavaliere

Reasons to avoid sleeping on your stomach: (1) excessive extension of the lumbar spine; (2) internal rotation of hands; (3) cranking neck on one side or the other  – Jeff Cavaliere

Do you suffer from back pain? Check out the video – fixing back pain video, and perform as needed to build new patterns and counteract the body’s natural tendency to want to move in the path of least resistance (painful flow) – Jeff Cavaliere

When Should Kids Start to Lift: Kids can start lifting around age 13; the avoidance of structured training is false because kids are naturally pushing and pulling and running around; why not make it structured? – Jeff Cavaliere

Difference Between 5-MeO-DMT and DMT: DMT induces visual distortion; 5-MeO-DMT experientially feels like a near-death experience without personal visual distortion but more about life itself. 5-MeO-DMT is pharmacologically, chemically, and psychologically distant from psychedelics – you become largely unresponsive at high doses, mimicking more of a near-death experience  – Hamilton Morris


WISDOM

Why Humans Love Scapegoats: The violence of all against all becomes the violence of all against one (a singular victim for the entirety of the society’s problems). “In moments of extreme turbulence, we aren’t interested in truth but a grand lie and founding murder that can grant us catharsis.” – Johnathan Bi

Why The Story of Christ is Unique: The crucifixion exposes the lies of all religions to show that the mob is deceitful and the victim is innocent – Johnathan Bi

The Roles of Capitalism and Law: Violent energies have been increasing but they are contained and productively directed by two new institutions of modernity: capitalism and law. Capitalism is the channel that absorbs and productively directs violence toward entrepreneurship. The law keeps the peace by threatening us with more violence – Johnathan Bi

What Is A Religion: Religion is an operating system for encoding ethical and moral judgements
“Morality binds and blinds”. “Nietzsche would say that we’re always inventing new religions” – Marc Andreessen

The Science TM: ‘The science is settled’ is more of a religious statement than a scientific one. Any scientific statement must be falsifiable and welcomes debate. Otherwise, it is a religion. – Marc Andreessen

Book of the Week: The Ancient City: A Study on the Religion, Laws, and Institutions of Greece and Rome by Numa Denis Fustel De Coulanges. All human societies are watered-down versions of the original cults. Describes how the original form of civilization was a fascist communist cult – Marc Andreessen

"Drunken Monkey” Hypothesis: ancestors live in the trees and since the ripest fruit would fall to the ground, which is also the sweetest fruit possibly fermented and buzz-inducing - Hamilton Morris

Style: “Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing. To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it. To do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art.” – Lex Fridman quoting Charles Bukowski

Social Justice Is Never Funny: Comics who put promote positivity and social issues first, do so because their jokes suck. “There’s not a fucking person on earth who’s changed their life because of a joke—that’s not what they are there for” – Joe Rogan