The Avid Bookreader

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[The Avid Bookreader @AvidBookReadr]

@garyvee Hey Gary thanks for the opportunity! 🙏

Just learning about NFTs and getting started so don't have any NFTs as of yet.

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[The Avid Bookreader @AvidBookReadr]

@azziadoor Done thanks for running the opportunity 🙏

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[The Avid Bookreader @AvidBookReadr]

@azziadoor Done thanks for running the opportunity 🙏

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[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Ikigai is a powerful concept for finding purpose and clarity to unlock growth in your career, startup, business, writing, or relationships.

A thread on its meaning and how it can change your life...

[James Clear @JamesClear]

The interior of an atom is 99.9999999999996% empty space, which means everything—literally everything and anything of physical substance in the universe—is, somehow, mostly nothing.

[Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays]

Persuasion level: Military Grade.

Respect

[Renee Klahr @reneeklahr]

Look at how many ships are already backed up at the Suez Canal as of this morning.

(Photo: Planet Labs, Inc.)

[splats 🍉 @Splats]

@visualizevalue

[Daniel Vassallo @dvassallo]

The most reliable way to improve your life is to remove something you dislike. More likely to work than adding something you think you'll like.

[François Chollet @fchollet]

Past a certain level of complexity, every system starts looking like a living organism.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Strongest argument against aliens

[Sam Altman @sama]

Figure out what you really want.
Learn what it takes to make it happen and commit to doing it.
Don't chase after too many other things.

(All of these are really hard but especially the first one.)

[Eric Jorgenson 📚 ☀️ @EricJorgenson]

Things you own cost time, attention, and care.

(Even if they are free.)

[Paul Graham @paulg]

The base state of programming is gluing together library calls. Since glue code can be written in any language, most programmers' language preferences are really library preferences.

[James Clear @JamesClear]

A simple question that often changes my behavior:

Does the amount of attention I’m giving this match its importance?

[ARCHIVED - NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover @NASAPersevere]

I’m safe on Mars. Perseverance will get you anywhere.

#CountdownToMars

[Eugene Wei @eugenewei]

Von Neumann gave a lecture on self-reproducing automata in 1948, proposing a solution as to how a machine in a vat of parts could construct a copy of itself.

From first principles, he basically posited DNA, which Watson and Crick would then discover 5 years later! Remarkable.

[The Avid Bookreader @AvidBookReadr]

@AyAy_Ron69 For those with this option, it’s definitely a smart move. There shouldn’t be a stigma associated with staying home longer.

[michael @paik_michael]

People will think you’re crazy until all of a sudden you’re right

[James Clear @JamesClear]

It’s usually more important to be in the right room than to be the smartest person in the room.

A person with great judgement and average intelligence will usually beat someone with great intelligence and average judgment.

Judgment is knowing what room to be in.