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g. @Gameboy330

over 5 years ago

Healthcare, education, housing, food, and water should all be a fundamental human right!

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Nav Toor

@heynavtoor

6 days ago

30 free websites 99% of the internet has never heard of. Bookmark this list. These cover everything from a free Ivy League education to live radio from any country on Earth. KNOWLEDGE AND LEARNING 1. Open Culture 1,500 free college courses and 1,000 free movies, curated by editors. Site → https://t.co/qXGVvlNY75 2. Project Gutenberg 70,000 classic books, free, legal, every format, every device. Site → https://t.co/FAEfVIaM9L 3. The Marginalian Maria Popova's curated essays on life, art, and meaning. Site → https://t.co/6ZBClqakZ4 4. Atlas Obscura Hidden wonders and obscure history from every country. Site → https://t.co/84lcywx5C5 5. Read Something Wonderful Hand-picked beautiful long-form essays from across the internet. Site → https://t.co/bkEqOyNcpD 6. CIA World Factbook Live geographic and political data on every country on Earth. Site → https://t.co/hKQ2YPg1l4 USEFUL TOOLS 7. TinyWow 200+ free PDF, image, and file tools in one site. No login. Site → https://t.co/mEhQaaVdkF 8. https://t.co/DJB0TPi8ya Erase any object, person, or text from a photo in 5 seconds. Site → https://t.co/K2vQVqfWqm 9. Squoosh Google's free image compressor that shrinks any photo in your browser. Site → https://t.co/PBBv1AU6Vi 10. Downsub Download subtitles from any YouTube video in 10 seconds. Site → https://t.co/EsxToV5npd 11. iLovePDF Merge, split, compress, convert, and edit PDFs in your browser. The free tier handles 99% of what people pay Adobe Acrobat $20/month for. Site → https://t.co/q239nxIz7o 12. Hemingway Editor Catches wordy writing in 30 seconds. Site → https://t.co/623MGBrGWV DISCOVERY 13. https://t.co/EMTO5TlsZm The smart person's Pinterest, used by researchers and writers. Site → https://t.co/9u4qwQ9r5l 14. Window Swap Look out a window from a stranger's home anywhere on Earth. Site → https://t.co/xFOhKTa8RW 15. Stratechery Ben Thompson's deep tech and business analysis, free weekly posts. Site → https://t.co/r8IPszJxui 16. Radio Garden Spin a globe, click any green dot, hear live radio from that exact spot. Site → https://t.co/LiJ7jLyIMG 17. Taste Atlas A live world map of authentic local dishes from every country. Site → https://t.co/epyb2cg8Ji 18. JustWatch Type a movie. It tells you which streaming service has it right now. Site → https://t.co/d3x4KhRlUt FUN AND CURIOSITY 19. https://t.co/aJrC3kHrMJ Infinite Craft, The Password Game, and 30 other addictive experiments. Site → https://t.co/3YBKjGAeDc 20. Stellarium Web Real-time map of every star and planet directly above your head. Site → https://t.co/5HWRv2eGqg 21. MapCrunch One click teleports you to a random Street View anywhere on Earth. Site → https://t.co/sYoccelfWJ 22. Zoom Quilt An infinite zoom animation that never ends. Pure mesmerizing chaos. Site → https://t.co/MOHHeCOGwQ 23. Universal Paperclips A free incremental game that will eat 4 hours of your life. Site → https://t.co/hNuhntFmoC 24. The Useless Web One button. Infinite random useless websites. Site → https://t.co/zT0XGDPfji USEFUL DAILY 25. Wayback Machine See any website as it looked at any moment in history. Site → https://t.co/Ly7DySXkUy 26. Have I Been Pwned Check if your email or password has been leaked in any data breach. Site → https://t.co/RSpR3br3di 27. A Soft Murmur Mix rain, thunder, coffee shop, and fire into your own ambient soundtrack. Site → https://t.co/ZeTNbkfuD4 28. Internet Archive 38 million books, songs, films, and software, all free and legal. Site → https://t.co/cU1bkJTFnD 29. FlightAware Track any flight in the world in real time. No signup. Site → https://t.co/tEpsjrEudZ 30. Tldraw Hand-drawn diagrams used at Apple, Google, and Microsoft. Site → https://t.co/FTIyRnYZt3

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The Sigma Mindset

@thesigmamindset

13 days ago

How to articulate your thoughts (science-backed exercise)

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Modern Masculinity @masculinityform

17 days ago

NEUROSCIENCE SHOWS THE RAREST FORM OF DISCIPLINE ISN'T THE 6:30AM ALARM OR THE CLEAN DIET. It's something 95% of people can't do for more than a week. And it's the one thing that actually changes your life. What happened after 7 days wasn't supposed to happen 🧵

masculinityform's tweet photo. NEUROSCIENCE SHOWS THE RAREST FORM OF DISCIPLINE ISN'T THE 6:30AM ALARM OR THE CLEAN DIET.

It's something 95% of people can't do for more than a week.

And it's the one thing that actually changes your life.

What happened after 7 days wasn't supposed to happen 🧵 https://t.co/OBG5BMMuUX

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18 days ago

You read. You watch. You take notes. And still forget most of it. That’s not your fault. Your brain was never taught how to learn. Here’s how to fix that:

mrgroowth's tweet photo. You read.
You watch.
You take notes.

And still forget most of it.
That’s not your fault.

Your brain was never taught how to learn.

Here’s how to fix that: https://t.co/OjsnSksNiU

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Lore Cárdenas.

@LoreCardenasX

18 days ago

Carl Jung tenía un método peculiar para transformar tu vida desde adentro hacia afuera. No se trataba de afirmaciones ni de manifestaciones. Practica estos 4 pasos durante 10 días y observa qué sucede con tu ansiedad: 🪡 1. Lo que te niegas a imaginar no desaparece. (Controla tu vida desde las sombras).

LoreCardenasX's tweet photo. Carl Jung tenía un método peculiar para transformar tu vida desde adentro hacia afuera. No se trataba de afirmaciones ni de manifestaciones. Practica estos 4 pasos durante 10 días y observa qué sucede con tu ansiedad: 🪡

1. Lo que te niegas a imaginar no desaparece. (Controla tu vida desde las sombras).

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Millie Marconi

@MillieMarconnni

20 days ago

A Chicago philosopher wrote one book in 1940 proving that 95% of the books you have read in your life, you didn't actually read, and Charlie Munger has been telling people to read it for 50 years. His name was Mortimer Adler. He spent 40 years at the University of Chicago, ran the editorial board of the Encyclopædia Britannica, and built his entire career on one uncomfortable observation about the people around him. Most adults who called themselves well-read had not actually read a book in the real sense even once. They had run their eyes over the pages, registered the words, formed a vague impression, and put it back on the shelf. The book had passed through them without ever entering them. In 1940 he wrote How to Read a Book. It has stayed in print for 86 years. Charlie Munger recommends it. Naval Ravikant recommends it. Fareed Zakaria recommends it. Every serious thinker who builds a career on absorbing information eventually finds their way to this book, and the reason is that Adler had isolated something nobody else was naming clearly. There are four levels of reading. Almost everyone is stuck on the second one. The fourth level is so different from what most people call reading that you have probably never done it in your entire life. Level one is elementary. You learn it as a child. You decode the letters into words and the words into sentences. You finish the sentence and understand roughly what it said. This is reading the way a 7-year-old reads, and almost every adult on earth has stopped developing past this point in some quiet way. Level two is inspectional. This is skimming. You move through a book quickly to figure out what it is broadly about. You read the back cover, scan the table of contents, glance at a few paragraphs, and form an opinion. Most adults who claim to have read 50 books a year are actually doing this. They are inspecting books, not reading them. They walk away with a vague sense of the argument and almost none of the evidence that supports it. Level three is analytical. This is the level Adler said most people have never properly experienced. You take one book and you wrestle with it for as long as it takes. You identify the question the author is trying to answer. You map their argument from front to back. You write your disagreements in the margins. You force yourself to articulate, in your own words, what the author is claiming and why. The point is not to finish the book. The point is to argue with it as if the author were sitting across the table from you. Most people never do this once in their life, because it is exhausting and slow and feels nothing like the reading they were taught as children. Level four is the one almost nobody knows exists. Adler called it syntopical reading. The word means "across topics," and the technique is something closer to running a small private research lab in your own head. You pick a single question that actually matters to you. How does power corrupt people. Why do civilizations collapse. What makes a marriage last. How does a person change their own mind. Then you assemble five or ten or twenty books from different authors, different centuries, different traditions, all of them taking a swing at the same question. You do not read any of them cover to cover. You move between them. You find the chapter in book three that addresses the same question as the chapter in book seven. You force those two authors to argue with each other inside your own head. The book stops being the unit of reading. The question becomes the unit. And the authors become voices in a conversation you are now hosting. This is the level where reading stops being consumption and starts being construction. You are no longer absorbing what someone else thinks. You are building a position of your own out of the friction between people who disagreed. Adler argued that this is the only level of reading where you stop being a passive receiver of other people's ideas and start being someone who can produce ideas of their own. The reason Charlie Munger has been recommending this book for 50 years is that this is exactly how Munger has always thought. He calls it building a latticework of mental models. The technique he is describing is just syntopical reading applied for a lifetime. You take the strongest insight from psychology, the strongest insight from biology, the strongest insight from economics, and you stack them against the same problem until something new falls out the bottom. The reason most people never reach level four is not that it is intellectually difficult. It is that it is logistically uncomfortable. It requires you to keep multiple books open at once. It requires you to take notes that nobody is going to grade. It requires you to abandon the goal of finishing books and replace it with the goal of answering questions. This is also why AI just changed everything Adler was teaching. NotebookLM, Claude, and tools like them let you do syntopical reading at a speed that would have looked like magic to a Chicago philosopher in 1940. You upload 10 books on the same question. You ask the AI to surface every place those authors agree and every place they contradict each other. The technique Adler said almost nobody on earth had reached can now be run on a Sunday afternoon by anyone with a laptop and one good question. The technique was always the unlock. The bottleneck used to be time. The bottleneck is now curiosity. Most people will keep reading the way they always have. A book at a time. Eyes over the pages. No question driving it. No other authors in the room. Adler called that level two for a reason. You are not behind on your reading list. You are behind on the level you are reading at.

MillieMarconnni's tweet photo. A Chicago philosopher wrote one book in 1940 proving that 95% of the books you have read in your life, you didn't actually read, and Charlie Munger has been telling people to read it for 50 years.

His name was Mortimer Adler.

He spent 40 years at the University of Chicago, ran the editorial board of the Encyclopædia Britannica, and built his entire career on one uncomfortable observation about the people around him.

Most adults who called themselves well-read had not actually read a book in the real sense even once. They had run their eyes over the pages, registered the words, formed a vague impression, and put it back on the shelf.

The book had passed through them without ever entering them.

In 1940 he wrote How to Read a Book. It has stayed in print for 86 years.

Charlie Munger recommends it. Naval Ravikant recommends it. Fareed Zakaria recommends it.

Every serious thinker who builds a career on absorbing information eventually finds their way to this book, and the reason is that Adler had isolated something nobody else was naming clearly.

There are four levels of reading. Almost everyone is stuck on the second one. The fourth level is so different from what most people call reading that you have probably never done it in your entire life.

Level one is elementary.

You learn it as a child. You decode the letters into words and the words into sentences. You finish the sentence and understand roughly what it said. This is reading the way a 7-year-old reads, and almost every adult on earth has stopped developing past this point in some quiet way.

Level two is inspectional.

This is skimming. You move through a book quickly to figure out what it is broadly about. You read the back cover, scan the table of contents, glance at a few paragraphs, and form an opinion. Most adults who claim to have read 50 books a year are actually doing this. They are inspecting books, not reading them. They walk away with a vague sense of the argument and almost none of the evidence that supports it.

Level three is analytical.

This is the level Adler said most people have never properly experienced. You take one book and you wrestle with it for as long as it takes. You identify the question the author is trying to answer. You map their argument from front to back. You write your disagreements in the margins. You force yourself to articulate, in your own words, what the author is claiming and why. The point is not to finish the book. The point is to argue with it as if the author were sitting across the table from you. Most people never do this once in their life, because it is exhausting and slow and feels nothing like the reading they were taught as children.

Level four is the one almost nobody knows exists. Adler called it syntopical reading. The word means "across topics," and the technique is something closer to running a small private research lab in your own head.

You pick a single question that actually matters to you. How does power corrupt people. Why do civilizations collapse. What makes a marriage last. How does a person change their own mind. Then you assemble five or ten or twenty books from different authors, different centuries, different traditions, all of them taking a swing at the same question.

You do not read any of them cover to cover. You move between them. You find the chapter in book three that addresses the same question as the chapter in book seven. You force those two authors to argue with each other inside your own head.

The book stops being the unit of reading. The question becomes the unit. And the authors become voices in a conversation you are now hosting.

This is the level where reading stops being consumption and starts being construction.

You are no longer absorbing what someone else thinks. You are building a position of your own out of the friction between people who disagreed.

Adler argued that this is the only level of reading where you stop being a passive receiver of other people's ideas and start being someone who can produce ideas of their own.

The reason Charlie Munger has been recommending this book for 50 years is that this is exactly how Munger has always thought. He calls it building a latticework of mental models. The technique he is describing is just syntopical reading applied for a lifetime.

You take the strongest insight from psychology, the strongest insight from biology, the strongest insight from economics, and you stack them against the same problem until something new falls out the bottom.

The reason most people never reach level four is not that it is intellectually difficult. It is that it is logistically uncomfortable. It requires you to keep multiple books open at once.

It requires you to take notes that nobody is going to grade. It requires you to abandon the goal of finishing books and replace it with the goal of answering questions.

This is also why AI just changed everything Adler was teaching.

NotebookLM, Claude, and tools like them let you do syntopical reading at a speed that would have looked like magic to a Chicago philosopher in 1940.

You upload 10 books on the same question. You ask the AI to surface every place those authors agree and every place they contradict each other.

The technique Adler said almost nobody on earth had reached can now be run on a Sunday afternoon by anyone with a laptop and one good question.

The technique was always the unlock. The bottleneck used to be time. The bottleneck is now curiosity.

Most people will keep reading the way they always have. A book at a time. Eyes over the pages. No question driving it. No other authors in the room. Adler called that level two for a reason.

You are not behind on your reading list.

You are behind on the level you are reading at.

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SEDUCTIVE MIND

@MidnightMuse___

27 days ago

JAPANESE COUPLES HAVE THE MOST STABLE MARRIAGES IN THE WORLD BECAUSE OF ONE RULE ALMOST EVERY WESTERN THERAPIST IGNORES:

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Peter Agboola

@baba_Omoloro

27 days ago

eBooks. WeLib: https://t.co/tPRAn1ua5Y PDFDrive: https://t.co/QZ9gStEv1R ManyBooks: https://t.co/YxnENywKwl DigiLibraries: https://t.co/d6EPvwehJJ BDE Books: https://t.co/GZRM39byPj Ocean of PDF: https://t.co/6ZC0DOo2RP Smashwords: https://t.co/QZANvLrBIG Anna's Archive: https://t.co/gLS2u0FQG1 Project Gutenberg: https://t.co/lxuBnadF7X Centsless Books: https://t.co/hdDTRMHsww

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Glory of Men

@GloryOfmenn

about 1 month ago

10 Deep facts about life: A thread 📌 1.

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The Sigma Mindset

@thesigmamindset

about 1 month ago

How to become disgustingly productive (using neuroscience)

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MODERN MEN MORALS

@Moralityrevived

about 1 month ago

CARL JUNG’S METHOD FOR MAKING WISHES COME TRUE. It Works Even For Skeptics. Practice It For 10 Days, And Something Strange Begins to Happen: THREAD🧵

Moralityrevived's tweet photo. CARL JUNG’S METHOD FOR MAKING WISHES COME TRUE.

It Works Even For Skeptics.

Practice It For 10 Days, And Something Strange Begins to Happen:

THREAD🧵 https://t.co/zDS4okuozs

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Jaynit Makwana

@JaynitMakwana

about 1 month ago

🚨 SHOCKING: A professor who flunked math as a student became an engineering professor by reverse-engineering how learning actually works. Her course has been taken by 3 million people. Her course "Learning How to Learn" is the most popular online course ever created. It's not about what to learn. It's about how your brain actually acquires skill. Barbara Oakley hated math. Failed it repeatedly. Then she learned how to learn... and became a professor of engineering. Most study advice is wrong. Rereading doesn't work. Highlighting is useless. Your intuition about learning is lying to you. I turned Oakley's learning science into 10 Claude prompts. You describe what you're trying to learn... and it builds you a system based on how your brain actually works. Here are all 10:

JaynitMakwana's tweet photo. 🚨 SHOCKING: A professor who flunked math as a student became an engineering professor by reverse-engineering how learning actually works. Her course has been taken by 3 million people.

Her course "Learning How to Learn" is the most popular online course ever created. It's not about what to learn. It's about how your brain actually acquires skill.

Barbara Oakley hated math. Failed it repeatedly. Then she learned how to learn... and became a professor of engineering.

Most study advice is wrong. Rereading doesn't work. Highlighting is useless. Your intuition about learning is lying to you.

I turned Oakley's learning science into 10 Claude prompts.

You describe what you're trying to learn... and it builds you a system based on how your brain actually works.

Here are all 10:

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Sosa | Mental Strategist

@MetaMorpehus

about 1 month ago

“You can never outperform your own self-image.” — Maxwell Maltz Your personality comes from the mental image you’ve built of yourself. Every success, failure, and experience has shaped that image. Thankfully, I learned this early. Reading Psycho-Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz changed how I think about mental strength: -Visualize the traits you want to embody. -Feed your subconscious clear instructions. -Hardwire success into your mind. What once felt uncertain becomes inevitable. All those worries fade away.

MetaMorpehus's tweet photo. “You can never outperform your own self-image.”

— Maxwell Maltz

Your personality comes from the mental image you’ve built of yourself.

Every success, failure, and experience has shaped that image.

Thankfully, I learned this early. Reading Psycho-Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz changed how I think about mental strength:

-Visualize the traits you want to embody.
-Feed your subconscious clear instructions.
-Hardwire success into your mind.

What once felt uncertain becomes inevitable.

All those worries fade away.

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BookNote

@BookNoteApp

about 1 month ago

10 books every introvert should read: 1) Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami

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SELF ELEVATING MIND

@selfelevating

about 1 month ago

CARL JUNG'S METHOD FOR MAKING WISHES COME TRUE. It Works Even For Skeptics. Practice It For 10 Days, And Something Strange Begins To Happen: THREAD🧵

selfelevating's tweet photo. CARL JUNG'S METHOD FOR MAKING WISHES COME TRUE.

It Works Even For Skeptics. Practice It For 10 Days, And Something Strange Begins To Happen:

THREAD🧵 https://t.co/RhPX5inQcx

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Unfiltered

@quotesdaily100

about 1 month ago

MINDS THAT THINK DIFFERENTLY: Deep thinkers: Philosophy, Psychology, Astronomy, Theology, Quantum Physics, Ancient History Pattern readers: Mathematics, Chess, Music Theory, Architecture, Linguistics, Cryptography Silent creators: Writing, Painting, Sculpting, Coding, Composing, Pottery Visual dreamers: Photography, Filmmaking, Graphic Design, Interior Design, Illustration, Fashion Emotion translators: Poetry, Acting, Counselling, Storytelling, Dance, Songwriting System builders: Engineering, Urban Planning, Economics, Law, Data Science, Medicine Boundary breakers: Entrepreneurship, Astrophysics, Neuroscience, Archaeology, Robotics, Genetics Truth hunters: Journalism, Forensics, Philosophy of Science, Investigative Law, Anthropology, Whistleblowing Quiet revolutionaries: Teaching, Social Work, Community Building, Grassroots Activism, Mentoring, Publishing

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Katyayani Shukla

@aibytekat

about 1 month ago

This guy literally dropped how to grow your brain like a muscle (in 4 mins)

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AI Panda

@AIPandaX

about 1 month ago

This guy literally shows you how to read so you never forget

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Karun Pal

@karunpal

about 1 month ago

Real books change your very psyche. Not the self-help books. The long, difficult, soul-altering books. The Brothers Karamazov. One Hundred Years of Solitude. The Stranger. The Old Man and the Sea. Crime and Punishment. In Search of Lost Time. Writers who understood loneliness. Meaning. Human suffering. The quiet chaos inside the mind. Writers who sat alone for years and pulled something true out of their inner darkness and put it on a page so that one day you could read it and feel less alone in your own. They change the way you see people. They expand your perception. They upgrade your consciousness. That's what real books do. They alter you.

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