“Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts,” Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman once said. Right now, we’re witnessing either a golden age or a crisis of expertise, depending on who you ask. So how do we distinguish the contrarians from the cranks, the signals from the noise, the skills we need and the…
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As a teenager in the 1990s, I had a part-time job selling computers. People would come in and buy the best computer they could afford but almost always get the cheapest mouse. The owner loved this. Inevitably, the customer would come back in about a month and purchse a slightly better mouse. The process would…
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“I very frequently get the question: “What’s going to change in the next 10 years?” That’s a very interesting question. I almost never get the question: “What’s not going to change in the next 10 years?” And I submit to you that that second question is actually the more important of the two. You can…
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The best relationships are the ones you don’t have to force. Nobody remembers your mistakes as much as you do. It’s better to do something every day with no dream than to dream all day and do nothing. Success never feels as good as you had hoped; failure never feels as bad as you had…
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Such a good list why you fail: https://markmanson.net/why-you-fai Should I stop to optimize? Success is often the first step toward disaster. The idea of progress is often the enemy of actual progresshttps://markmanson.net/disease-of-more
#1 is important because unfortunately, colleges and companies are used as a first filter.If you have a good friend, you can bypass this with a referral. But it’s the difference between companies approaching you vs you approaching them. #2 — VCs want to help their winners. Win-win situation for everyone. Take a look at their…
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“If you need a degree to do it, it’s not going to make you wealthy.” “To imagine is really the first step in creating anything. Therefore an essential chore for making a future we want to live in, is to imagine what it is like and how we get there. That plausible path is a…
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I could not agree more – time is so precious: “Can we get a puppy?” The internet is filled with puppy quandaries. You can get a puppy at a pet mill/pet shop in about an hour (please don’t). But over the course of your lifetime with that dog, you’ll need about 3,000 hours of time…
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To many people, drug use conjures images of danger and addiction, especially for those of us who grew up with the US “War on Drugs” legislation and the related “Just Say No” campaign. Public dialogue and education wholly discouraged drug use and the abstinence model prevailed. Since then, although approaches for treating substance use and…
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Great article about hunger and ambition and eventually how to raise your children:
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