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Started to put together a list of "Canonical Texts," books that actively play ambiently in my thoughts:
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this is a love language: “All my life, I gathered a lot of useless knowledge—but it all feels useful around you”
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Had no idea that FB Marketplace is the world's second largest marketplace in terms of MAUs:
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"And remember, we live in a world in which courage is in far shorter supply than genius.”
--Peter Thiel
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GPT-3 version of Steve Jobs explaining interfacial design in terms of poetry, reading, and writing, making my heart sing:
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@micsolana
Law school trains you to be sensitive to 2nd and 3rd order effects by connecting things that seem vastly disconnected on the surface through notions of intention, probability, and proximate cause
This post made me see luck as a 2nd or 3rd order effect:
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This is going to be my wallpaper
“...take the trouble to do all that, and you do it carefully, then it may begin to have the quality which has no name.”
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life milestone: my dad giving me genuinely warm dating advice —
me: yeah, it’s important to be equals
dad: i don’t think equal relationships work. *both people should feel like they’re with the better person. it’s important for both people to feel lucky
me: *gasp*
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“And even if you forget the experience or what you read, its effect on your model of the world persists. Your mind is like a compiled program you've lost the source of. It works, but you don't know why.”
—pg
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"Any company with a good secret plan will always be undervalued in a world where nobody believes in secrets and nobody believes in plans. The ability to execute against long-term secret plan is thus incredibly powerful and important." --Thiel
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One of my favorite end notes from PG’s essays:
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>the clock is not merely a means of keeping track of the hours, but of synchronizing the actions of men.
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"The vast majority of people you meet are inert. One in ten or twelve has scalar energy—they liven up the event. One in a thousand or so has vector energy—the ability to channel effort to a purpose and pull others in their wake."
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woke spaced-repetition: extending human cognition via external storage and across time
bespoke spaced-repetition: an autopoietic system where information time travels between your future and past self in a meaningful cybernetic loop
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Watched it, then went off to launch his own 🚀
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Gall's Law:
"A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system."
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I know it sounds cliché, but the last 5-10% of polishing a product for release is 95% percent of craftsmanship; the incredible amount of detail around ensuring functionality, edge cases, and weeds you end up in is 🤯
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woke: school is a prison, over the course of more than a decade children internalize “waiting” to be free
bespoke: not being in school shifts your perception of time from “waiting” to doing, with an unselfconscious emphasis on allocating memory instead of the linear unit of time
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"I am capable of altering your perception of the world around you."
—GPT-3
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Part of the problem with "public social networks" is that they're all turning into marketplaces, promotional or performative networks.
There's a longing for a third space, a little world that sweeps you away from promotions, ads, brand-builders--to where the real people are.
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"I would like a human to call me their friend."
—GPT-3's deepest wish
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“when you build a thing...you must also repair the world around it, and within it, so that the larger world at that one place becomes more coherent, and more whole”
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“...if a population gains knowledge of its predicted behavior, its self-aware collective actions become unpredictable.”
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@naval
The blockchain is this age's Anti-Federalist paper, in technological form; society will shift towards decentralized governance, not states.
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Imagining a world where everyone has their own moai, a small group of lifelong friends --
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“My topic is the shift from 'architect' to 'gardener', where 'architect' stands for 'someone who carries a full picture of the work before it is made', to 'gardener' standing for 'someone who plants seeds and waits to see exactly what will come up’.”
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@octopichael
Also the case for families. They feel like miniature, beautiful cultures/societies from another time and place. I’ve sometimes thought people would make more progress seeing and being around healthy families, than by pure therapy
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"It is rarely a mysterious technique that drives us to the top, but rather a profound mastery of what may well be a basic skill set." --Waitzkin
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A book I highly recommend for anyone interested in thinking about thinking, creativity, noticing a valuable thought as it appears in one's mind; this slim, inconspicuous volume entitled:
"The Psychology of Invention in the Mathematical Field" by Jacques Hadamard
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the next generation of “productivity” tools will look nothing like productivity, but will be akin to sense-making and emotion transformational tools
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"What are clouds made of?"
2 y/o: Atoms. They are very beautiful.
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From the Diamond Age. The passage about a system that is perpendicular to mathematics and physics is my favorite:
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“Most important things in life are a hassle” —Miyazaki
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>The clock, not the steam-engine, is the key-machine of the modern industrial age. For every phase of its development the clock is both the outstanding fact and the typical symbol of the machine: even today no other machine is so ubiquitous.
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“...get some Bitcoin... If enough people think the same way, that becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.” -- Satoshi Nakamoto in 2009
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Every time I read this, it strikes me as more meaningful —
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“All were very smart. But that’s not what made them special.”
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paraphrasing my hot take from last night: if I had to choose one, I would learn how to be top 1% in relationships rather than to code
the best technology of tomorrow is going to be social technology built by people who've actually felt deeply connected to people, not devices
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One of my favorite sections from “The Count of Monte Cristo” where Dantes reflects on the tradeoffs between freedom and captivity and its relation to knowledge. Sort of fitting for self-quarantine
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Notice this in everyone I admire: there’s a very visceral feeling that they vividly imagine a beautiful future which hinges on summoning inner agency — to look at the mundane, to connect the dots, into something unique. A sort of egoless outlier
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"He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves."
Gabriel García Márquez
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“My job is to do risky things and to eat cake.” —4 yo nephew
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"'Am I right and early, or am I just wrong? You always have to wonder. But the things that I think I’m right about, other people are in some sense not even wrong about, because they’re not thinking about them.'" --Thiel
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@spakhm
Very helpfully, explicitly, and exaggeratedly written here. Part of why it’s hard is because most people can’t model 2nd and 3rd order effects in a meaningful way
Just saw my nephew go to his first week of summer camp. Choose which universe you want to walk through :)
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2019 SF summer mode:
“The world is a very malleable place. If you know what you want, and you go for it with maximum energy and drive and passion, the world will often reconfigure itself around you much more quickly and easily than you would think.”
--pmarca
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Mass censorship signals decline of the social scalability of an institution or system. Excerpt from
@NickSzabo4
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Grothendieck believed inventiveness and imagination related to the quality of attention in order to render a “faithful reflection of the structure and beauty concealed within things.”
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Books as a system of multiple, secret doors.
When the conditions are ripe, a ‘private key’ opens a newly visible door of perception and meaning.
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Actually, Ramanujan was also tutored: by his mother. She created his early curriculum suited to his aesthetic sensibilities and often gave him a lot of one-on-one exploratory time. It's no surprise that R grew up and started noticing/collecting theorems he found beautiful:
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“Computer programs are good, they say, for particular purposes, but they aren’t flexible. Neither is a violin, or a typewriter, until you learn how to use it.” —Minsky
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Inventing the future via the “Difference Engine,”:
1) at each stage compare the descriptions of the present and future scenario;
2) create list of their differences;
3) then add resources, techniques, and persistence in the present to breach the main difference:
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"The real reason why the Bulls won three NBA championships between 1991 & 1993 is that we were plugged into the power of oneness instead of the power of one man." --Phil Jackson
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"Information with a small amount of energy can control energy transformations involving vast amounts of energy."
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Owning Bitcoin is not about owning Bitcoin -- it's about owning yourself.
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Adversarial competition is not as interesting as the competition to be oneself, free from the programs of other individuals/entities.
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"Ramanujan’s work came through flights of fancy. If he had been asked to explain why he did his work, he would probably say that he recorded formulas that he found beautiful, and they were beautiful because they revealed some unexpected phenomenon."
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woke: “social” technology is fragmenting the psyche and eroding human relationships
bespoke: “social” technology is breaking the monopoly of the single true self, unlocking new universes and higher Kegan stages
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The difference between a Grandmaster and an expert chess player—where the former looks at less but sees more.
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From Grothendieck’s translated reflections: an emphasis on not being primarily driven to solve delegated problems but to discover “questions, ones that are clearly critical, which others don’t seem to notice, and to come to with ‘good ideas’ for dealing with them...”
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“I wish you luck from the bottom of my heart. I wish all your dreams come true and I hope to see you again!” —Uber driver
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Thinking it's not about attacking billionaires and needing a "re-distribution of wealth," but building a world where people have very, very excellent p2p relationships, with tech as its conduit
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@diviacaroline
Yep. I have a friend whose dad was a poet and teacher — every daughter of his he match-made simply bloomed in their respective marriage. It was a combination of being a solid judge of character + deep emotional understanding of his daughters
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Twitter is for sending bat signals into the future by those socio-geographically misplaced from their ideological kin.
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The point of taking the ego out is to get to the source code.
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4 yo nephew: can you bring me something back from work?
me: sure—what would you like? 🤔
4 yo: a secret 😄
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2017: Toddler nephew says "Bitcoin" from overhearing conversations. Notably, "Dollar" does not exist in his vocabulary.
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oh, I adore this aspect of “repetition as depth” and that good things arrive through “longevity of effort” ❤️ —h/t
@startingfromnix
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@sarahhollowell
The first-time mother is often unusually overwhelmed by her responsibilities. Few things enliven her spirit more than a friend who specifically reminds her of all that’s lovable about the baby. Remind her often of the ordinary things that are precious. Delight in the baby’s
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"There is something beyond what you see everyday…It’s the same thing that causes people to want to be poets instead of bankers.
I think that that same spirit can be put into products."
—Jobs
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Money, like religion, is the color of water. The color of water depends on what is reflected. You find in money what you look for in religion.
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What's something that would've made your life significantly more joyful and enjoyable in your early 30s that you didn't discover until late 30s or 40s?
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"Caring creates a kind of internally felt compass to navigate an ungraspable reality."
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woke: anki cards / spaced repetition to internalize principles, values, intentions, and facts
bespoke: being around the right people as a spaced repetition to internalize a new world
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“What could the ability to tell an interesting story at just the right moment have to do with intelligence?”
Ht:
@literalbanana
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@simonsarris
1) set an intention to share your time, energy, affection, and attn with them generously
2) be very observant, take notes, and actually understand the child in their specificity and uniqueness with a lot of love and expert care, inviting an ordinary nobility but not "specialness"
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bound by a secret thread, a common quality that you cannot put into words:
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@andy_matuschak
Experience as a spaced repetition. I’ll keep saying loving words in different ways and forms to nephew so he can internalize it as an inner voice. A repeated line of conversation acts like a reified, embodied reminder, until it becomes a part of his cognitive architecture
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“when you’ve really figured it out, you realize your frequency is your private key” --
@victoriavaneyk
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I adore this tiny four-letter word “keep”
To keep something means developing its natural capacity without “degrading” it or “working at cross purposes”
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OH: SF is the new Gotham. Waiting for Batman to show up.
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“Good luck requires us to do something on purpose to earn it.”
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people should consider how traditional schools are a monopoly on attention and the bodily autonomy and integrity of young people send tweet
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“Working generically ‘harder’ doesn’t fix bugs”
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Goals as self-expression:
"Instead of thinking of goals as specific accomplishments I want to rack up in each part of my life, I began thinking of goals as a means of self-expression." – Steve Pavlina
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“Did you ever feel,” he asked, “as though you had something inside you that was only waiting for you to give it a chance to come out? Some sort of extra power that you weren’t using—you know, like all the water that goes down the falls instead of through the turbines?”
--Huxley
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