Wisdom
1. Help Others Take Ownership: In battle, you don’t attack hardened positions of the enemy. Similarly in life, you don’t just bark orders at people. Instead, people need to take ownership of their plans to overcome obstacles and achieve goals. Else, they will blame any failures on their micro-managing boss – Jocko
2. You Can’t Protect Them Forever: Kids will be exposed to life sooner or later; mindlessly helping and shielding them from everything will harm them – Jocko
3. Invention: Achievement at a surface level looks a lot like brilliance, but brilliance deemphasizes the hard work, time, and failure that contributed to the achievement –Sir James Dyson
4. Try and Fail, Don’t “Learn”: Achievement at a surface level looks a lot like brilliance, but brilliance deemphasizes the hard work, time, and failure that contributed to the achievement –Sir James Dyson
5. The Simplest Way to be More Curious: Take an hour-long walk and simply write down everything that comes to your mind, be aware of your own curiosities – Jim O-Shaughnessy
6. Just Let It Go: Embrace your weirdness, release the tiller, love yourself unconditionally, and life will take you to the right place – Chris Williamson
Wealth
7. The Great Reshuffle: We have collapsed time, space, and geography – curiosity, technology, and creativity have no boundaries – Jim O-Shaughnessy
8. China: “We are in a very confrontational state with China and the biggest risk is to be in denial of the fact that China has an agenda that is unfriendly to the future of democracy” – Keith Rabois
9. OpenStore: OpenStore will buy your Shopify business, giving you the opportunity for liquidation and access to life-changing money, which incentivizes continuous business creation – Keith Rabois
10. Average Ideas, Average Returns: In business, if you do what everyone else is doing, you guarantee average results – Chris Williamson
11. What is Generative Art? an artist writes an algorithm that defines the basic parameters of a piece of art, then introduces some randomness to it (a common trend in NFTs) – Kevin Rose
12. Three levers for Intelligent Artificial Systems: Computation, algorithms, and data - Wojciech Zaremba
13. Prediction = Consciousness? As pattern recognition and prediction making improves at a compounding rate, intelligence starts to look a lot like consciousness - Wojciech Zaremba
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