📝 Dark Playgrounds and Lion Hunting

Wisdom

Consistency Adds Up: Compiling effects: A person who writes 2 pages a week will write 10 books in 20 years - you can do this while still doing 99% of the things that a person who writes 0 pages does. Before you know it, you're a prolific writer. Apply this across principles. – Keith Urban

Humans don't build anything individually; collectively humans build everything: – Keith Urban

Pencil problem: One human can not make a pencil from start to finish. You can put it together, but the materials (wood, paint, eraser, metal) are all collected and crafted separately.

Behavior = human nature + environment – Keith Urban

Dark Playground: Doing something fun but convincing yourself to feel bad because you're not working – Keith Urban

Grace: The belief that we can out-smart simple Darwinian competition, that life isn’t all tooth and claw. Without grace, we lose track of our humanity – Eric Weinstein

Not All Bugs Are Features: Identities and wallets may be anonymous in Bitcoin, but transactions are forever visible to everyone. A form of gold that reveals that it's every transaction is dangerous for privacy. – Eric Weinstein

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate” – Boyd Varty quoting Carl Jung

Nothing Harder Than Tracking a Leopard: “Whenever you see a leopard, the leopard is allowing you to see it” – Boyd Varty

Meaning in Africa: The western world often is misguided in their search for meaning – associating meaning by comparison. If you grow up in Africa or in nature, you associate meaning through relation. You learn about yourself through your encounters with the world. – Boyd Varty

Health

Tips to Treat Hair Loss: Topical creams (i.e., Rogaine, Minoxidil), Retin-A you can rub topically – apply several times per day; pills (i.e., Propecia) once per day; laser beams (low laser light therapy – hair caps approved by FDA); platelet-rich plasma (PRP) - Dr. David Sinclair

Pre-Menopause Planning: It’s worth monitoring and tracking estrogen and progesterone in the 30s and 40s during the luteal phase of the cycle to have a baseline idea of what natural levels are in the event that hormone replacement is needed in the future - Dr. David Sinclair

Skin pinch test: (1) relax your hand on a table; (2) pinch up skin on the top of the hand; (3) observe bounce back time. Targets: in your 30s and 40s the skin should pop right down; in 50s it should take less than 10 seconds; in 60s it should take 10-15 seconds; over 70 it’ll take 30-60+ seconds - Dr. David Sinclair

Diets Fail Because of Your Gut Microbiome: About 80% of overweight people who diet will gain back the weight plus some – the microbiome seems to store a metabolic memory of past obesity which predisposes people to exaggerated weight gain – Dr. Rhonda Patrick

Best Practices for a Healthy Microbiome: (1) maintain a consistent, healthy sleep pattern; (2) stop smoking cigarettes; (3) eat during a regular window during the day (avoid night eating); (4) explore wearing a continuous glucose monitor for personalized data; (5) try a personalized nutrition approach - Dr. Rhonda Patrick

Let Babies Be Dirty: “By subjecting kids to an overly sterile condition, we may be harming them by not allowing their microbiome to be diverse enough to train the immune system and impact healthy metabolism.” – Dr. Eran Elinav

Prevention > Treatment: It’s worth the time and expense to invest in diagnostics not covered by traditional insurance – you’ll have a better shot at catching problems early and setting yourself up for successful intervention – Tony Robbins

Dr’s Are Always Behind: The average half-life of a medical education is 18-24 months – meaning half of what they’ve learned is out of date in less than two years (Harvard study) – Tony Robbins

Wealth

Focus Focus Focus: “Place your biggest bet on a focused strategy and iterate until it works”. Never hedge your bets as a company – if you have two paths, you have no paths - Aaron Levie, CEO of Box

Serial Entrepreneurship is Overrated: Choosing the right market at the right moment is more valuable than any years of experience - Aaron Levie, CEO of Box

Sales Incentives Done Right: “One of the things we forget in sales is that the way to give people skin in the game is not always to give them a bunch of cash, it’s to give them a way to earn ownership of the business.” – Ben Braverman, Flexport

Sales Interviewing Tips: Keep an eye out for curious people. People who display interest in the company’s business and the industry as a whole are people who are more likely to succeed. Typically, these types of people have a lot of genuine questions about how the puzzle fits together (e.g. why the company and the opportunity exist) – Ben Braverman, Flexport