Wealth
 

“The only true test of intelligence is if you get what you want out of life”, there are two parts to this test: Naval Ravikant 

1. Were you able to hack reality to get what you wanted?
2. More importantly, were you smart enough to figure out what to want in the first place?

Find and Do What YOU Love: “If you want to operate at maximum productivity, efficiency, and creativity, you are going to work on things you are excited about at the moment you are excited about them, accept nothing less” – Naval Ravikant 

Miami is Winning, SF is Dying: “We decided to vote with our feet, which is the original foundation of this country. The way to get better policies is to give people choice.” – Keith Rabois

• People don’t want to be monopolized citizens, they want to be customers of their state
• Florida had a net migration of over 220,00 people in 2021
• Florida understands that the future is being built by math, technology, and capitalism

FAANG Shade: Facebook’s core brand is tarnished forever, Instagram has room to run, and Meta is too far away. Apple is too dependent on China. Netflix is facing extreme competition. Google is a monopoly business, the exact future is unclear - Keith Rabois

Google's Secret Sauce: Not a lot of people realize it was Google’s server architecture that allowed them to advance over their competitors - David Friedberg

Wisdom

Brain Workouts: Books are like weights at the gym, too light and you crank through the exercise; too heavy and you can’t do a single rep, adjust your weights and books. - Naval Ravikant 

Pessimism is a Trap: The sustainability trap is a deeply pessimistic approach that gained traction because pessimism is intellectually seductive. In reality, it only shows a lack of imagination and reading history.  - Naval Ravikant 

“The Nature of War is Death, Always Including Civilians: War is rarely justified; people who start wars do not understand the nature of war – Jocko Willink

War In Infinitely More Complex Than Chess: Sometimes, we fall into the trap of thinking that the government can predict what is going to happen in a foreign country and the reaction of the local population. War is loaded with an infinite number of variables; personalities, egos, agendas, etc. and somehow we think that some small team of bureaucrats is going to predict the outcome of an invasion - Scott Horton

“Kick a dog until it bites, shoot it and then say ‘see I told you the dog was dangerous'”.– Darryl Cooper

College, Where Curiosity Goes to Die: The more curious people are, the more they respect different viewpoints. “Curiosity predicts bipartisan attitude convergence about environmental threats (e.g. climate change).” However, in the contemporary academic context, curiosity takes a back seat to root memorization and high-stakes testing – Dylan Selterman


Health

If You Lack Salt, Neurons Can't Work: Sodium is the way your neurons communicate – having enough salt in the body allows the brain and nervous system to function - Dr. Andrew Huberman

Thirst Isn't Just About Water: Sodium and water work together in the body: thirst is not just a way to bring fluid into our body – it’s an internal signal telling us to balance salt level. “If you’re craving salt, you probably need it.” ­– Dr. Andrew Huberman

Drinking Yourself to Death: If you ingest too much water (this requires A LOT of water), you will actually kill yourself because you’ll disrupt the body’s ability to communicate, brain, and neurons - Dr. Andrew Huberman

The Aisle of Liquids In the Super Market is a Climate Disaster: It’s an archaic system of centralized manufacturing that uses a ton of energy, carbon, and land to move water in your home (which you already have at home). “It’s about half of billion tons of CO2 put into the atmosphere every year to make bottled and canned beverages.”– David Friedberg

The Dream of Cana: 99% of beverages are water, and maybe water and sugar, or water and alcohol. Only 1% is the chemistry that makes the flavor, smell, color, texture of beverages. That 1% is all they need to turn that water into many beverages - David Friedberg

Why Round Up is Human Poison: Methylation and Sulfation are two bodily key systems that, if impacted, can cause damage to your immune function, detoxification systems, cognitive function, and more. Glyphosate can disrupt every step of these systems, especially due to sulfate deficiencies. Glyphosate also binds to your essential minerals, like Iron and Zinc, making them toxic and deficient at the same time. “Glyphosate makes many other chemicals much more toxic than they would otherwise be because it disrupts the liver’s ability to detoxify them” – Dr. Stephanie Seneff