Deepak Jose

Building a global business at a local level.

[Deepak Jose @DeJayOfficial]

@AJA_Cortes Jan 2020 : Quit my job at a Big Four Firm to start own business

Mar 2020 : Pandemic induced worldwide lockdown begins

May 2020 : Struggle to survive amidst cancelled orders

July 2020 : Bounce back with even bigger orders because many incumbents failed

[Naval @naval]

On Scott Adams.

A man finds, to his astonishment, that he exists. After the elation of childhood wears off, he asks, who am I, why am I here, how does this work? These are hard questions, so after a brief struggle, he selects a readymade answer and goes about the motions of life.

Scott Adams was not such a man. He was a live player, ever curious, intent on figuring out this simulation that he found himself in. From first principles, Scott unraveled, understood, and ultimately controlled his own reality. He hacked himself with affirmations, others with persuasion, the world with simultaneous sips. He explained people as moist robots, two movies happening on one screen, his world as Gods’ debris. He carved a personal mission to “be useful,” and made us all better writers, public speakers, and persuaders. He preached the footwear theory of motivation, the Adams Law of slow-moving disasters, the skill stack, systems over goals, and of course, the Dilbert Principle.

Besides cartooning, philosophizing, and teaching, Scott rose to the occasion and displayed, “the one virtue that cannot be faked” - courage. Scott had the courage to speak honestly as he saw it - about Trump, about his nation, and about his time, even though it cost him friends, audience, money, and his ticket to polite society. Scott had true courage, the kind that makes you unpopular, the kind that is always and everywhere in short supply,

At the end, as any hacker of reality, Scott covered all of his bases - he left as a Buddhist, a Christian, and a player in the Simulation.

Scott, we didn’t get enough time with you, but you were a mentor and a marvel. You were useful and you were courageous. You were incompressible and indivisible. One of a kind, and generous with your drawing, writing, and speaking. Unlike your squealing critics in the chattering class, you will be read generations from now.

On this earth there are many long-lived hells but no lasting heaven. Each heaven must be created and nurtured, ex-nihilo, from mind and from mud. Scott, you created a small heaven for us all, and to a larger heaven you go.

A man finds, to his astonishment, that he no longer exists. He asks why, what it was for, and how will the new reality work? When the rest of us get there, we’ll find Scott, ever useful, ready to explain, having figured it all out.

Notes:
• First line paraphrasing Schopenhauer.
• Courage quote via Taleb.

[BuccoCapital Bloke @buccocapital]

Beautiful. Life is so short. Savor it

“There was a night I carried my son to bed for the last time but I don’t remember it. He fell asleep on the couch. I lifted him up, placed him in his bed and kissed him goodnight. I would pay any amount of money to relive it”

[Àgbà John Doe @jon_d_doe]

As a parent, I think this video has taught me something useful.

I recommend that you should try it on your kids, too.

I have also shared it with my wife.

Credit: joe_drummer_boy on IG.

[Book Briefs @BookBriefsHQ]

📘 The Psychology of Human Misjudgment
✍️ Charlie Munger
🔍 A deep dive into cognitive biases shaping poor decision-making.
#BookSummary

[David Senra @FoundersPodcast]

Sage advice from Warren Buffett:

[Morgan Housel @morganhousel]

Little Ways The World Works

If you find something that is true in more than one field, you’ve probably uncovered something particularly important. The more fields it shows up in, the more likely it is to be a fundamental driver of how the world works.

https://t.co/2ya6CcQOf7

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

Here we go. Results of Citizens Protein Project 2. Please read, share max. We have to bring in change. Thank you for your contributions. Huge thanks to @arifhussaintm who led clinical research division on behalf of Mission for Ethics and Science in Healthcare to do this...1/15

[Nathan Lands @NathanLands]

I'M BLOWN AWAY.

Andrej Karpathy just explained Software 3.0 at YC.

BIG IDEAS: English is coding. AI is electricity. And, build for LLMs, not just people.

Key takeaways:

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Impressive precision of an eye surgeon performing LASIK surgery

[📹 mdefuture]

[James Clear @JamesClear]

Lucky opportunities are like grains of sand. They drift right past a limp hand, but an active palm can gather whatever is within reach and shape it into a little castle. It is the act of engaging with the material that gives it shape. You have to seize the moment.

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

This video has made the rounds on nearly every social media platform—and like others in its genre, it's led people to reduce fashion production to overly simplistic narratives.

So let’s take a look at why this bag might not be quite the same as the one you’d find at Hermès. 🧵

[Amjad Masad @amasad]

I no longer think you should learn to code.

[James Clear @JamesClear]

When dreaming, imagine success.

When preparing, imagine failure.

When acting, imagine success.

[Shane Parrish @shaneparrish]

Stay focused.

[Balaji @balajis]

FROM MAGA TO CHINA
Here are four things MAGA is getting wrong, and why it's handing over the world to China.

(1) First, MAGA correctly understands that America’s economic position is in decline but thinks this is due to economic competition itself, rather than lack of competitiveness.

(2) Second, MAGA also understands that the US has wasted trillions abroad in foreign wars, but thinks the problem is global leadership itself rather than poor leadership.

(3) Third, MAGA knows that their Blue American enemies have allies abroad, but has incorrectly overreacted to this by treating every non-Red-American as an enemy.

(4) Fourth, MAGA sees the billions of dollars flowing from the US to foreign recipients, but isn't grasping that the US can only print those dollars in the first place so long as it's the hub of a global empire.

When you put these together you can both understand MAGA's actions and understand why they will not lead to the intended result.

Basically: MAGA is hyperfocused on cutting off any apparent flow of funds from Red Americans to Blue Americans and non-Americans. And they only have ~500 days in power. So they're trying to quickly shut off imports, close down institutions, and exit all wars.

OK.

Except the reason the imports exist in the first place is because US products aren't competitive relative to Chinese products (or Fed printing). The reason those institutions exist is because the US set them up to run the world. And the reason those wars are happening is not because of American leadership per se, but because of the absence of good leadership.

If you shut all of that down at once — if you abandon global competition and global leadership — you shut down American Empire, and with it the ability to print money. And then everyone in that empire has a very bad time.

[Morgan Housel @morganhousel]

“If you only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.” - Montesquieu

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

ELON: QUITTING IS NOT IN MY NATURE

Lex:

“Where do you go to both personally, intellectually, as an engineer, as a team, for a source of strength needed to persevere?”

Elon:

“A source of strength?

That's really not how I think about things.

For me, it's simply, this is something that is important to get done, and we should just keep doing it or die trying.

I don't need a source of strength.

Quitting is not in my nature.

I don't care about optimism or pessimism.

Fuck that.

We're going to get it done.”

Source: Lex Fridman Podcast, December 2021

[James Clear @JamesClear]

Consistency before intensity.

Start small and become the kind of person who shows up every day. Build a new identity.

Then increase the intensity.