John Maggs

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@dgt10011 A lot of bitcoiners are seeking income. What’s your thoughts on income products like MSTY and IMST?

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@BrianRoemmele Request: can someone create an image of what that would look like alive with that skeletal structure? Like this kind of thing? Would really, really appreciate that

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@Codie_Sanchez Have always loved this Goethe quote - “You can tell the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.”

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@2Yeahyeah Thanks! Have been looking for more content like this after reading through 6529’s threads

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@2Yeahyeah Is there a link to the thesis?

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@BrendanLane19 @APompliano @JeffBooth @priceoftomorrow @misir_mahmudov I used to think this, but actually, it's not your time that's the most scarce, but your attention.

This has significant implications the more you think about it :)

Time is only a means for attention.

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I opt out of discussing politics because parties and individual politicians are all just noise against the larger looming issue of a defunct system. But this idea...

What if we replaced politicians with randomly selected people? | Brett H... https://t.co/44CgZExRWn via @YouTube

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By becoming stronger as an individual, we’re able to be stronger for others.

The opposite holds as well. Although we might think of ourselves as selfless, if we’re limited by our abilities, we’re limited in what we can do for others.

Put your oxygen mask on first.

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@lex_node #1 in survival biographies on Amazon, and for good reason. I had a hard time believing this as I read it. It’s an incredible story, and my favorite in this genre.

https://t.co/3QWNIRyoDl

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Additionally, if a process doesn’t solve an actual problem, it won’t be adopted and will die.

Even at the small scale of simple personal processes (those devised with intention to produce “nice-to-have” outputs), I’ve found this to be true. They rarely ever stick.

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When designing a process, the right amount of structure is when nothing can be taken away. Similarly, things should be added only when they’re necessities. Everything else is excess and thereby counterproductive.

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Returning to this book, one of my favorite takeaways that’s stuck with me has been the concept of drift to low performance. To counter this, keep standards absolute and set sights on best performance, not the worst.

https://t.co/zWLm0QuyRr

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Donella H. Meadows, Thinking in Systems: A Primer

“God grant us the serenity to exercise our bounded rationality freely in the systems that are structured appropriately, the courage to restructure the systems that aren’t, and the wisdom to know the difference.”

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Returning to this book, one of my favorite takeaways that’s stuck with me has been the concept of drift to low performance. To counter this, keep standards absolute and set sights on best performance, not the worst.

https://t.co/zWLm0QuyRr

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If you’re bored or uninspired, you aren’t trying nearly hard enough.

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It’s so easy to get stuck in a rut, doing the same thing day-in/day-out. Why?

Remove yourself for a moment. Here are two stark yet very different accounts of our bizarre, fascinating, curious, profound, and mysterious existence:

https://t.co/jqY0KVZLVD

https://t.co/5Z2YxhBZiv

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Similarly, I’ve always liked this quote from Marcus Aurelius: “If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one's own self-deception and ignorance.”

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“Business” books receive a good amount of criticism, much of it being fair. But many can at least serve as conversation starters for teams, and typically the best of these are the simplest in their prescriptions. This one is useful by that criteria:

https://t.co/xHPREHRkNg

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The model in this book promotes truth-seeking amongst a group of people, which is an inherently valuable activity, but arguably even the most valuable. A shared model of reality is the foundation for everything a team will collectively do and how they’ll do it.

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A good heuristic for Twitter usage: stop scrolling once you reach something interesting with a clear takeaway, or if there’s a link that’s worth reading fully. Then, end the session.

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It’s good to have org structures, but what matters is people, what they know, what they’re motivated about, and the work that’s actually being done.