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Exploring atomic insights from my favorite thinkers (e.g., PG, Naval, Balaji, Deutsch, Popper, Taleb, Everett) on

[kenti @kmayama2]

The difficulty of reconstructing the past,
even the recent past,
is altogether comparable to that of constructing the future,
even the near future;
or rather, they are the same difficulty.
The prophet is in the same boat as the historian.
Let us leave them there.

Paul Valery

[kenti @kmayama2]

“Current generation might judge you for your average . . . But in all intellectual domains, you are judged by your best work in posterity.” – @naval on @BeerBicepsGuy

[kenti @kmayama2]

“Creativity means any idea can lead to any other thought” - @naval with @balajis @thenetworkstate

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Give it time and distance:

“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.” – Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld

"What topic do your thoughts keep returning to?" – @paulg

[kenti @kmayama2]

“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” – Maya Angelou

And knowledge is rare but never a scarce resource.

[kenti @kmayama2]

"Nobody knows what they're doing before they do it . . . Sometimes the best time to promote people is before they are ready" - @wguidara

"It is the body that learns" - @Junglerambler

"Action precedes motivation" - @3blue1brown

[kenti @kmayama2]

“𝘌𝘪𝘯𝘮𝘢𝘭 𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘬𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘮𝘢𝘭. What happens but once, might as well not have happened at all. If we have only one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all.” - Milan Kundera

“We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one.” - Confucius

[kenti @kmayama2]

“Nor is a person capable of making progress merely by virtue of being willing to drop a theory when it is refuted; one must also be seeking a better explanation of the relevant phenomena. That is the scientific frame of mind.” – @DavidDeutschOxf

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@achera23 Sometimes where you write and how you write can matter more than what you write.

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'It is the medium itself that is the message, not the content' - Marshall McLuhan

Phonetic alphabet separated the represented and the representer. Its invention shifted humans from local wholeness (sound) to 'universal fragmentation'. I'm curious what he would've said about LLM.

[kenti @kmayama2]

"All human perspectives are culturally shaped" - @Junglerambler

Culture is an implicit theory for its members. The question becomes not “What is in the brain?” but “What is the brain in?”

[kenti @kmayama2]

"Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true." - @naval

"Writing is rewriting." - @paulg

[kenti @kmayama2]

@naval: "𝘽𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙 𝙖𝙩 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙙𝙤. 𝙆𝙚𝙚𝙥 𝙧𝙚𝙙𝙚𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙙𝙤 𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙡 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙞𝙨 𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙚."

@paulg: "𝙒𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙨 𝙧𝙚𝙬𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜."

[kenti @kmayama2]

More at: https://t.co/KBMnVKlRyr

[kenti @kmayama2]

"𝗢𝗻 𝗪𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗪𝗲𝗹𝗹" 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗪𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗺 𝗭𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗿. I wish I've read this sooner.

1. The essence of writing is rewriting. Professional writers rewrite their sentences over and over and then rewrite what they have rewritten.

[kenti @kmayama2]

“What you write is often the only chance you’ll get to present yourself to someone whose business or money or good will you need. If you work for an institution, whatever your job and your level, be yourself when you write. You will stand out as a real person among the robots.”