✏ "Science is Based on Properties, NOT EVIDENCE"

1/ The Business Model of the City of the Future: A new business model for building a city: Instead of owning specific pieces of land, you own equity in the entire city. This way, you have equity alignment with everyone else in the city. - Balaji Srinivasan

2/ Sleep Is Crucial: One night of poor sleep lowers testosterone in men and raises inflammation – Mind Pump

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3/ Ben Greenfield’s Sleep Stack:

200mg of Thorne Iso-Phos
500 mg of MagSRT
2 capsules of Thorne’s Multi-Vitamin Elite
250mg of Thorne PharmaGABA
200mg of Thorne 5-Hydroxytryptophan
4g of Thorne Glycine
2 Thorne Hemp softgels

4/ What Does CBD ACTUALLY Do? Consuming cannabis supports the function of your endocannabinoid system which helps you manage stress and anxiety better, sleep better, and also decreases inflammation – Stephen Smith

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5/ Science is Based on Properties, Not Evidence: There are no clinical data on whether it’s unsafe to jump from an airplane without a parachute at 35,000 feet, but since we understand gravity, we don’t need a clinical study – Nassim Taleb

6/ Medicine has perfected the art of prolonging disease –Dr. Azra Raza

7/ What Exactly Is Cognition: Cognition stems not only from the hardware it’s operating on (brain, circuitry) but also the larger environment in which it exists Thoughts need a reality to test itself against otherwise they are nothing more than screams into the void – Matt Botvinick, Dir. Neurscience at DeepMind

8/ Become an Elite Chess Player With… Akido?: “When I was able to physicalize that and get it into my body and internalize it and then transfer that into mental mapping onto the chessboard, my game went to a completely different level and that’s what took me to becoming a grandmaster” – Maurice Ashley, Chess Grandmaster

9/ Neil Gaiman’s Favorite Book on Relationships: The Eden Project: In Search of the Magical Other by James Hollis

“Being in an intimate relationship is a bit like asking someone to join hands with us but only after walking across a field in which we had planted mines” – Neil Gaiman, Author

10/ The Jobs Are Not Coming Back: “We have to face the facts that 42% of the jobs that we’re losing are gone forever…you’re looking at something like twice the impact of the Great recession in perpetuity” – Andrew Yang

11/ Government Crypto, PASS! A central bank-issued digital currency enables it to monitor and censor transactions and to freeze accounts, it can also be tied to a good citizen score

“Coming soon to a liberal democracy near you” – Ben Hunt, Epsilon Theory

12/ Hedging Strategies: - Puru Saxena, Founder/CEO of Puru Saxena Wealth Management

IWO for US to hedge against international exposure
KWEB and CWEB to hedge against China exposure
EWZ to hedge against South American exposure
Sell short S&P futures when forced to beta hedge