Where Is My Gold, Sir?

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

To understand the world, read.
To understand yourself, write.

[Where Is My Gold, Sir? @infanteddy]

@afqnrm @TakazawaYuki @AfgZoroastrian Now did Korea turn out to be like Gaza?

[Afghan Zoroastrian @AfgZoroastrian]

Japan and Germany got totally destroyed in WW2.

But their kids didn’t become terrorists.

Stop making excuses for yours.

[Interesting things @awkwardgoogle]

Earthquake frequencies affect buildings of different heights

[elektra @elektraslaw]

how can you be bored when there's a career to build, a body to transform, a mind to sharpen, and a future to chase.

[∩ @zachpogrob]

Still one of the best tweets of all time

[Auteur House @auteurhouse]

Werner Herzog (#botd) on books every aspiring filmmaker should read:

"Sometimes I talk about these books that have nothing to do with filmmaking. One of them is [J. A. Baker’s book] The Peregrine. We spoke once in public about it. About watching peregrines, but it’s a book that everyone who makes films should read. The kind of immersion into your subject and the passion and the caliber of prose—I mean we haven’t seen anything like this since the short stories of Conrad. It [also] includes, for example, Virgil’s the Georgics, not the Aeneid, but the Georgics. Or a short story by Hemingway, “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber.” And it includes Bernal Díaz del Castillo’s memoir about the conquest of New Spain. He was a footman in the smaller army of Hernán Cortés. And the Warren Commission Report, for example. Just a wonderful piece of reading; the best crime story you can ever read and the phenomenal conclusiveness in its logic. So those are the things I care for aspiring filmmakers to read."

[Michael Covel @Covel]

Trend following…

[Natalie Issa @njissawrites]

These 5 books will make you a better reader than your English classes ever did:

[Where Is My Gold, Sir? @infanteddy]

@Admir_mk_lu @EYakoby aren't we talking about genocide?

[Steven Pinker @sapinker]

I can't get enough of this family of illusions (not least because it took me so long to figure out how they work).

[Digi @digiii]

The only things you need to win:

- delusional optimism
- Metacognition
- Agency
- maniacal urgency
- thinking from first principles

[Nillionaire.ts 🇳🇬 @igboonaija3]

Barack Obama: "Just learn how to get stuff done, and people will notice."

[🍂 @Lovandfear]

— Kazuo Ishiguro, My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs

[DAN KOE @thedankoe]

The average person does not try to solve their problems or struggles. They get stuck in a routine and live the same day over and over. It does not cross their minds to snap out of it, engage in strategic thinking, and change direction so they can eventually reach a more advantageous position in life.

If you want to get ahead of 90% of people, all you have to do is pause, think, and actually attempt to overcome the struggle you're faced with.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

A reminder from The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson:

“Happiness comes from solving problems. The keyword here is "solving." If you're avoiding your problems or feel like you don't have any problems, then you're going to make yourself miserable. If you feel like you have problems that you can't solve, you will likewise make yourself miserable. The secret sauce is in the solving of the problems, not in not having problems in the first place. To be happy we need something to solve. Happiness is therefore a form of action; it's an activity.”

[miaa. @miacluv]

the worst part about wasting your life is how comfortable it becomes.

[Xeo ¯³ @xe0_xeo]

Gilbert Williams

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

“Difficulty is what wakes up the genius.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb