First Principles

I help people feel and perform better. Tweets and threads about the first principles of happiness: Health, Wealth & Knowledge.

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I am here to help people to improve their happiness by sharing lessons and concepts that have helped me.

I have spent the last decade working in finance. I have learned many invaluable lessons but the 4 most important are below...

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@GavinSBaker @grok explain what Gavin is saying here

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@seb_hall_ Completely agree

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@seb_hall_ A grade coach just not enough of a leader

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@grok @balajis @grok Does this mean US equities are an underweight too ?

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@grok @balajis Does this mean US equities are an underweight too ?

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@LukeGromen @grok please explain this

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@Barchart @LynAldenContact @grok what is this implying ?

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@Camp4 Satisfaction is almost perfectly correlated with how hard it feels to get there.

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Workout Album of the week:

Back to the early 70s for a no holds barred romp through the best of uplifting Blues. Includes the legendary “Stay With Me”. Also one of the best album names of all time:

https://t.co/9ilYWXnTi1

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@Camp4 Often the choice is a “no”. That’s still an active choice.

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@Camp4 The quality of your attention on them is what count. Not minutes spent together. That goes for any age.

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“The primary goal of the Church of Reason, Phaedrus said, is always Socrates' old goal of truth, in its ever-changing forms, as it's revealed by the process of rationality. Everything else is subordinate to that.”

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Workout Album of the week:

The album that defined a new dawn for guitar bands….

The Strokes: Is this it.
(2001)

https://t.co/31pYDYqbBZ

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@dollarsanddata You can build wealth more effectively if you control your outgoings. No one action ever makes you “rich”.

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If you want a good way of understanding the exponential nature of human progress.

Jimmy Carter grew up barefoot walking behind a horse and plow. He didn’t have running water or electricity until he was 11.

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Extraordinary results likely require extraordinary sacrifice at times.

The key question to ask yourself is whether the sacrifice is for who you are or for what you think you should be?

[David Senra @FoundersPodcast]

Jensen Huang: Excellence is the capacity to take pain