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For me, if I cut out music with words, it’s useful; music with words destroys my productivity

This is a huge point - promoters works up until a point - but eventually you have to deliver on the promise or people walk.

Somehow, Elon delivers on damn near all his major promises (with delays and whatnot, but stil)

Sorry - I laughed at your first sentence and spit coffee on my keyboard; just thought you should know!

There are always trade offs in life... so you want to be wealthy and have status at the expense of other things? That CAN be the right answer for some people and they will find meaning in that. It is totally fine to pursue that if your heart tells you that is meaningful. Just make sure your hard work actually moves you towards that goal (working for a paycheck versus working to increase the value of equity in something, for example)

But, it is totally fine if you personally prefer to have a quiet family life and spend as much time as you can with your children. If that is what your heart tells you is meaningful - set your life up that way.

It’s a personal decision always. Neither is right or wrong. People are different. It’s ok to find something meaningful that others don’t value the same way.

In the speech, Wallace digs into higher education and what the true value of it might be. He suggests that its end-game purpose is not to teach students facts and figures or fill their heads with knowledge – but instead, it brings the most value to students by teaching them how to consciously choose how to think from a perspective that is not your own, think about meaning, and act appropriately in everyday life.

I agree with this... but I got a technical degree and a liberal arts degree when I was an undergrad.

If you are investing in college you need to have a skill that makes you employable once you complete it.

But, there is more to life than making money and learning to have control over yourself and your thoughts, and learning that other people see things differently than you do, pays dividends in both your personal and professional life.

Aren’t they also accelerating the repatriation of the country ?

Talk about being confused; show up to look at the results and there is just black burn marks all around... haha

Chris Voss is great. I find if you are having a conversation and you are asking the questions, getting long answers, and then asking related questions, you are doing things right.

The other person loves talking about themselves or their opinions. You are learning by paying attention enough ask more questions.

If you are negotiating silence can be your friend when the other party is feeling good talking about themselves

People say this kind of thing a lot. Find the balance between making sure you have what you need and making sure you are not trying to have more than you will ever need.

I find it’s people who have more than enough that say that generally.

I think the takeaway is don’t look for your value in the way others see you. You will never be good enough.

“If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you will never have enough, never feel you have enough. It’s the truth. Worship your body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly. And when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you.”

“A quasi-experimental study” - love the honesty

Because that would work actually work? We don’t actually want to have recordings, just say that we have them.

But seriously, I would imagine the storage costs aren’t that terrible relative to the costs it would save in lawsuits for the police departments ?

Love Feynman and his quirks. Wish one of his quirks wasn’t being a little derogatory towards women though to be honest. Has made it harder and harder for me to recommend him to people without being upfront about that caveat...

This is hard to do. I heard a quote from like 1950 that you should work all out until you have 100k, then relax. Was said by a billionaire in why he didn’t burn out. After that, he was less stressed and did things he enjoyed more, which happened to make money.

Thank you - this is really and the background here is helpful. Appreciate it very much.

This was a really great explanation. I love smart people who can dumb it down for me. Thank you. Very cool.

That is an interesting point - to be an expert is much more difficult today.

However, I wonder how much of it is survivorship bias? Like the polymaths are generally forgotten because they suck at a lot of things. Every once in a while you get a genius interested in many things... that’s then exceptional and they are capable of learning many things?

I think there always has to be a filter applied with what is possible and what is probable in a individuals life when thinking about making choices for your daily life.

Is this different than dark matter? This is actually just normal matter that we think should exist based on evidence but we can’t see?

Any physicist bored and want to do a “explain it like I’m five?”

Is it fear of damage or danger that would keep them from taking it for free?

Did you get the converter for the Lamh Safari? I actually use the same for cost reasons (and I like the grip) but I use the disposable cartridges, which seems wasteful. I have just heard that the Safari converter is pretty quick to run empty?

I recently switched to a fountain pen - way easier to write with and way less tension. Neil Gaiman suggested it and so I gave it a shot. Never going back - my handwriting is better (but I write cursive) and it is easier to write longer without strain.

That said - super cool story.

Yes - the dangers of sending a PPT to someone are real... your theme, your logo, someone else’s words. Unless a person is setup specifically to edit PDFs, there are limited tools to do so. Change to many words and spacing and alignment gets off. And it’s annoying.

I find his delivery to be so verbose that you get lost in an almost waterfall-like wall of words bashing you over the head. Maybe he is smart, but it’s odd to me that so many people find him popular when he is so long winded.

This is 100% true. Almost everyone loves the interested student, but the moment you get a work email address the cold phone calls and emails receive less warm receptions.

Take advantage of it while you can.

This is the way it always goes with innovation - when there is some new technology you can have the small agile firms with outside capital make huge gains. Then one of the big guys notices, consolidates the space, and now that space is basically a no mans land for new capital and innovation by small firms. The small firms made something interesting and novel, the big guys scale it and optimize it.

I don’t think that means the VC model is dead, just means they have to look around the fringes for things the big guys aren’t doing for the next five plus years

https://torontosun.com/2016/05/12/311-million-vancouver-mans...

This was linked further down... a student owns 99% of a $31mm property. A Chinese business person owns the other 1%. That sounds like trying to get around KYC / AML requirements and obfuscating things to me...

This is insane - feels like something fishy going on... I wonder if business people in China use students and pay them a fee of some sorts to facilitate getting around KYC requirements etc?:

“Land title documents list Tian Yu Zhou as having a 99-per-cent interest in the five-bedroom, eight-bathroom, 14,600 square-foot mansion on a 1.7-acre lot at 4833 Belmont Ave.

Zhou’s occupation is listed as a “student.” The other owner of the property, which boasts sweeping views of the North Shore mountains and Vancouver, is listed as Cuie Feng, a “businesswoman.””

Wow this is something I was thinking about... then the money launderer turns around and sells the house they just bought “for quick close” and that sets another precedent in the market... and so the process repeats.

“All of a sudden, a money launderer shows up, and offers the owner 10% over ask for a “quick close.” You’re not too worried, your agent told you the place a few doors down is going to be on the market next week.

Unfortunately, the new place now uses the home owned by the money launder as a comp. Now the ask is 10% more than you were expecting, because the marginal buyer set the price down the street. Someone else bites, and buys it before it “goes too high.” Now the money launderer’s buy was just validated in the system.”

Agree that all that is needed is a “more pay per time period for more efficiency” but think it’s hard to get right.

The cab driver is constantly playing bird in the hand is worth two in the bush - do I take less per minute with this customer but take a long time, or take the customer quickly, get paid more, but then also have the risk I won’t pick anyone up for long enough that I am worse off?

I think most people go for bird in hand is the issue.

Experience and teaching - those are important. The moment you have to teach someone, you will figure out you don’t actually understand it. Then you will go back and do all the other things you said to prove to yourself everything you know and get better because of it.

Experience is teaching yourself - everyone thinks that you need someone to teach you something. That’s not right - other people giving you thinks to do is the opportunity to teach yourself the best way to do something. Look at it that way and you are going to progress very quickly.

This is really cool - reminds me of a technology that uses MRI machines to do incisionless brain surgery. It’s amazing what we can do.

This is the MRI-based brain surgery: https://www.minthilltimes.com/featured/medical-surgical-proc...