I enjoyed greatly the Odyssey (thought I am not used to watch moving images, which made some scenes feel more poignant).
The most gripping part was the siren episode which made me reread my own scene in #FooledbyRandomness (after almost 3 decades).
Olympics
> Athletes from all over the world
> Peak human genetics
> The tallest, fastest, strongest, with the greatest stamina
> A highly diverse genetic pool
> Now imagine if they had children together
> With each generation, they would keep getting stronger
Kind of like our own super-soldier program.
The new plan is apparently to make as many people as possible as miserable as they can be made without blowing them up. And this will be pursued with the same relentless ingenuity as blowing them up was.
It is a great paradox that individually we are simultaneously everything and nothing. Through our own eyes, we are everything--e.g., when we die, the whole world disappears. So to most people (and to other species) dying is the worst thing possible, and it is of paramount importance that we have the best life possible. However, when we look down on ourselves through the eyes of nature we are of absolutely no significance. It is a reality that each one of us is only one of about seven billion of our species alive today and that our species is only one of about ten million species on our planet. Earth is just one of about 100 billion planets in our galaxy, which is just one of about two trillion galaxies in the universe. And our lifetimes are only about 1/3,000 of humanity's existence, which itself is only 1/20,000 of the Earth's existence. In other words, we are unbelievably tiny and short-lived and no matter what we accomplish, our impact will be insignificant. At the same time, we instinctually want to matter and to evolve, and we can matter a tiny bit--and it's all those tiny bits that add up to drive the evolution of the universe.
The question is how we matter and evolve. #principleoftheday
"The past is a different country": if you tried to socialize with one of your ancestors, assuming you managed to bridge the linguistic & body language gap, you would keep talking past one another & found each other severely offensive.
You be left feeling you have nothing in common.
Berkshire Hathaway’s Charlie Munger was making gutsy investments, forging unlikely friendships and facing new challenges to the end. https://t.co/ZTnJxFH1hS via @WSJ