Chris Shayan

Experience Architect

[Chris Shayan @chrisshayan]

Check out #MyYearInBooks @goodreads to discover the 102 books I read in 2023! https://t.co/LTnV2zrXWh

[Chris Shayan @chrisshayan]

I have completed my challenge of 100 books! https://t.co/qRY87L4V9k

[George Mack @george__mack]

My favorite Charlie Munger story:

In 1953, Munger was 29 years old.

Recently divorced. Lost the house. Huge social stigma of divorce back then.

His 8-year-old son, Teddy, was diagnosed with cancer.

The leukemia was incurable.

No medical insurance - Munger paid for all his medical care.

Charlie would visit Teddy in the hospital every day -- and then walk the streets crying.

Teddy died at the age of 9.

Charlie was broke, divorced and just lost his child.

99.9% of people would've turned to alcohol, drugs, or suicide. (And you'd understand why)

Munger never did.

Fast forward to 52 years old, a failed surgery left him blind in one eye with the potential of going fully blind one day.

Charlie was an obsessive learner who read every book he could get his hands on.

When confronted with the possibility of going blind and no longer being able to read he said:

"It's time for me to learn braille!"

The only thing that might be more impressive than his intellect was his actions.

RIP.

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Munger on Self-Pity:

"Generally speaking, envy, resentment, revenge, and self-pity are disastrous modes of thought.

Self-pity gets pretty close to paranoia…

Every time you find your drifting into self-pity, I don’t care what the cause, your child could be dying from cancer, self-pity is not going to improve the situation. It’s a ridiculous way to behave.

Life will have terrible blows, horrible blows, unfair blows, it doesn’t matter. Some people recover and others don’t.

There I think the attitude of Epictetus is the best. He thought that every mischance in life was an opportunity to behave well. Every mischance in life was an opportunity to learn something and that your duty was not to be immersed in self-pity, but to utilize the terrible blow in a constructive fashion. That is a very good idea."

[Haaretz.com @haaretzcom]

Families who lost loved ones on October 7 gathered in Jerusalem and brought down the barriers that stood between them and Netanyahu's residence.

Their volcanic rage started to erupt. They can no longer stand the fact that this man is still prime minister
https://t.co/auexgReKex

[Jiyar Gol @jiyargol]

نسخه کامل گزارش #آرمیتا_گراوند از روزی که در مترو تهران به کما رفت تا جان باختن او. چگونه خبر گزاری رسمی حکومت ایرنا انحصار خبر رسانی را در کنترل گرفت و دیگر خبرنگاران از گزار ش از وضعیت آرمیتا منع شدند. ژیار گل گزارش می دهد #مهسا_امینی #زن_زندگی_آزادی

[Haaretz.com @haaretzcom]

Netanyahu's speech Wednesday night is further proof that the man is a moral criminal and an anti-leader / Yossi Verter
https://t.co/QfJFTBIDB9

[Jiyar Gol @jiyargol]

Today, #armitagravand was announced dead. 4 weeks ago, Armita, a 17-year-old student on her way to school in Tehran, fell into a coma in the Tehran metro. Iranian rights groups allege that she was pushed to the ground by police for not wearing a headscarf, while officials claim that her fall was due to a sudden drop in blood pressure. The hospital was heavily guarded, and independent journalists were denied access to her family and classmates. Many suspect that Armita may have died some time ago, and that officials were waiting for the opportune moment to make the announcement. #Mahsa_Amini

[The Mossad: Satirical and Awesome @TheMossadIL]

The truth told by @yairlapid.

[Haaretz.com @haaretzcom]

The myth of Bibi as "Israel’s protector" has broken. "It’s over," one senior member of the governing coalition said this week. "The government won’t survive this" / Gidi Weitz

https://t.co/4dXfzVSHxR

[Israel ישראל @Israel]

To the presidents of @Columbia, @nyuniversity, @Harvard and other universities who have stood SILENT as terror supporters have marched through campus and celebrated raping women, executing children and kidnapping grandmothers, you are cowards.

Listen to Columbia Professor and father @ShaiDavidai’s heartbreaking speech:

[Iris Boker @BokerIris]

זה פשוט מעולה מעולה
פרופ' ישראלי באונברסיטת קולמביה נותן להם בראש בנאום לפנתאון
בבקשה תשתפו במיוחד בארצות הברית

[Haaretz.com @haaretzcom]

Not tomorrow. Not next week. Netanyahu must go now https://t.co/qeAlCkAAxQ

[Dumisani Washington @DumisaniTemsgen]

Imagine being a Jewish man or woman living outside of Israel, especially in the Western world (US, UK, Canada), and seeing hundreds of thousands of people — of various ethnicities and around the world — cheering the slaughter of your people in the Jewish homeland. Imagine trying to figure out where the safest place would be for you and your family.

Now, multiply that by 1,000 and you may get a small glimpse of what our Jewish brothers and sisters are experiencing right now.

[The Mossad: Satirical and Awesome @TheMossadIL]

Nice view of IDF taking out rocket launchers as Hamas fires rockets at Israeli homes.

[Chris Shayan @chrisshayan]

@Israel @DouglasKMurray Every single word @DouglasKMurray thank you

[CNN @CNN]

The Israeli Defense Forces took CNN’s @AndersonCooper to visit the site of the Nova music festival, where 260 people were killed. Watch the report for @AC360:

[Emily Schrader - אמילי שריידר امیلی شریدر @emilykschrader]

Powerful words from Arab Israeli journalist @lucyaharish in CNN

"As a Muslim, this is not Islam — what Hamas is doing in the name of religion — they’re not Muslims. They’re monsters."

[Haaretz.com @haaretzcom]

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Hamas terrorists who attacked Israel's Gaza border communities last Saturday were found with detailed maps and documentation, indicating their intention to take over educational institutions and abduct citizens, including children https://t.co/F4aZk1afpw

[Chris Shayan @chrisshayan]

@netanyahu is responsible for Jewish deaths. Resign now.

[Haaretz.com @haaretzcom]

The sense of contrition and lucid Mea Culpas already heard in the IDF do not exist in Benjamin Netanyahu’s world. These ideas do not apply to him. As far as he is concerned it’s all someone else’s fault. It always is / Alon Pinkas
https://t.co/jj4HDn9Yz0