I am begging you to read some fiction bro.
→ Not because it makes you look smart.
→ Because fiction teaches things that bullet points can’t.
→ A self-help book tells you to be resilient.
→ The Count of Monte Cristo makes you live through resilience for 1,000+ pages.
→ A self-help book tells you to understand people.
→ Dostoevsky puts you inside minds you’d never otherwise understand.
→ Information is easy to forget.
→ Experience isn’t.
Read fiction.
Your attention span, empathy, vocabulary, and understanding of human nature will improve.
It has never been easier and cheaper to build things
Raising money != success
But it can be an enabler
Creating value is success
You do it by building things people actually need
Raise money only if it’s a significant accelerant
Preferably from win-win type strategic investors
Manage money conservatively when product-market-fitting
Get very aggressive once the path is clear
But always be capital efficient
It has never been easier and cheaper to build things
The heart is not a pump. Or rather, it is a pump in the same way that a smartphone is a flashlight.
Yes, it performs that function. But it is so much more.
The heart possesses its own intrinsic nervous system, containing approximately 40,000 sensory neurons, called sensory neurites, that form what cardiologists now call the heart's "little brain".
The heart generates the largest electromagnetic field in the body. Its electrical field is approximately 60 times greater in amplitude than the electrical activity generated by the brain.
The magnetic field produced by the heart is more than 100 times greater in strength than the field generated by the brain and can be detected up to three feet away from the body in all directions using SQUID-based magnetometers.
HeartMath Institute research has demonstrated that the timing between pulses of the heart's magnetic field is modulated by different emotional states, and crucially, that these magnetic signals have the capacity to affect the physiological systems of individuals around us.
This is not metaphor. The heart broadcasts electromagnetic information about your emotional state into the environment at the speed of light, and the nervous systems of other people act as antennae, tuned to and responsive to these signals.
@IterIntellectus > “at a population scale”
> one size fits all
> large institutions can only really do one thing
The technology is there. It is how you apply it— one sized or personalized.
Here’s hope precision medicine the third use case (after coding, agents).
Deinstitutionalize medicine.