Wealth
1/ Risk Absorption: “If you start ranking the hierarchical levels of standard deviation for risk, what you basically find is that people who make a lot of money and work their way up the chain essentially act as shock absorbers in the system for larger amounts of volatility”
– Max Arbitrage
2/ Mark Zuckberg is All In on AR/VR: “If you can deliver a computing platform that is fundamentally more human and about creating natural interactions between people, that’s the dream that we’ve been chasing for a long time
” - Mark Zuckerberg
3/ Turing Science Into Business: Lab is an encouraging environment which encourages thinking outside the box and teaches people to take a “fantastic number of shots on goal” – instead of thinking and trying to create the perfect study design
– Dr. George Church
Wisdom
4/ Read for Joy, Not to Finish The Book: If you’re aiming to read a high quantity of books read instead of a small number of quality books, “Maybe you should reconsider your life choices … What are you chasing?”
– Alan Jacobs [Premium]
5/ Our Senses Are Pretty Useless: “The primary function of the telescope’s optics is to reduce the illusion that the stars are few, faint, twinkling and moving… Like conjuring tricks in reverse, such instruments fool our senses into seeing what is really there” -
David Deutsch
6/ Avoid Distraction At All Costs: Distractions are probably the number one reason today why people stagnate in life The entirety of mankind’s knowledge is on the internet, yet most people only use the internet for entertainment
– Max Arbitrage
7/ COVID Regulations: “The whole point of human life is not just about not dying” -
Keith Rabois
Health
8/ Subjectivity to Drug Testing: Sports will make sacrificial lambs of mediocre athletes but preserve superstars who generate money and viewership
- John Romano
9/ Genders: Men and women are opposite – just because you stop taking testosterone, doesn’t mean it undoes every characteristic you have had since you were a zygote. What separates the two is not psychological, it is biological, physical, and happens in the womb.
- John Romano
10/ Change Your Breath, Change Your Heartbeat: To increase heart rate – inhale longer and/or more vigorous than exhale. To slow heart rate down – exhale longer and/or more vigorous than inhale
- Dr. Andrew Huberman, Ph.D.
- Fastest method to calm down in real time -Physiological sigh: Two inhales through the nose followed by an extended exhale through the mouth
11/ Why Do Some People Do Drugs: As often happens with drugs – you are not treating the underlying causes of what led you to need the drug in the first place, you’re adding a new complexity. If we don’t know how to relax or unwind, we are prone to not developing coping strategies and may become susceptible to substance dependence for things like anxiety and sleep
– Hamilton Morris
