The old way:
• Coming up with 1 idea
• Retreating into the woods for months
• Emerging with something the market didn't even want
The new way:
• Coming up with tons of ideas
• Instantly validating them with small bets
• Doubling down only on the ones that work
This book from 1997 predicts nations will get desperate for funding as tech like the internet and digital money make it easier for citizens to protect their savings.
They suggest states may even create excuses to limit taxpayer mobility, such as a global pandemic.
Like you have every right to remain engrossed in this whole system of thought revolving around COVID, but time has officially expired for you to force it upon others
People chase feelings that are only present 1% of the time.
99% of the time, success is just grinding.
99% of the time, happiness is just gratitude.
Relish the 99%, its practically all there is.
Retrospectively, the happiest moments of your life aren’t when you have everything you want.
It’s when you are striving for a meaningful goal, surrounded by people you love who are doing the same.
Haiku thread follows.
If a pandemic caused by a new bat-derived sars-like virus breaks out in a city and
The city has no similar viruses in its local bats and
Has no sars-like antibodies in its people and
Has no infected animals in its markets and...
1/10
Yesterday I rented a boat and took the leader of one of Flexport's partners in Long Beach on a 3 hour of the port complex. Here's a thread about what I learned.
At a cafe that I used to frequent in 2019.
Food plates are 1/3 the size.
Staff debating whether they should put 1 or 2 tsp of chai into a customer's latte. They settled on half.
Shrinkflation is here.
For all the obsession about accessing states of flow, creativity, hyper-focus, neuroplasticity etc. the two states of mind that serve as foundational entry points to all the rest are:
1) Alert but Calm
2) Asleep
Optimize entry to those first.
The rest follows.