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[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Bravo @JeffBezos!

[Sarin @Sar_en_gas]

@ZubyMusic This guy cured my attention span deficit

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Actually, this is fat-tailed.

[Love&Bass @lovenbass]

@premium how can I contact you please? these screenshots indicate an infinite 3 click loop..

I've paid Premium subscription a week ago but cannot activate or access it.

Each time I click Premium, Subscribe, or Verify, I fall back into this loop.

tx.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Dear enemies,The Black Swan is now the most influential (that is, discussed/mentioned) 21st C book.
While almost all books have a half-life between 2 and 6 months, it does not appear to have a half-life. #Lindy

[Same with other 4 books in the Incerto. Graph is US only]

[Phantammeron @Phantammeron]

@MarioNawfal Time to invest in an Encyclopedia for the book shelf. Seriously.

[Alex Napier Holland 🦍 @NapierHolland]

Typing Mind is - easily - the best $99 that I've spent on my conversion copywriting business so far.

No more messing around copy-pasting content between separate ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude user interfaces - instead I can switch engines and compare their output with one click.

I need to analyse large sets of competitor surveys for my clients. Time, accuracy and scale all directly translate into more money - for my client and my business.

Typing Mind paid for itself in minutes.

Amazing work on @TypingMindApp by @tdinh_me 👊

[Love&Bass @lovenbass]

@tito_mboweni Now it will just be Kentucky Fish.

[Lukáš Ronald Lukács @lucxsronald]

THREAD

The best photos of this year’s men’s Ronde van Vlaanderen. #RVV24

1. The love in the chaos. (📸: jeredgruber)

[Love&Bass @lovenbass]

@SABreakingNews If the waiter claims compensation at CCMA based on her remuneration at the time of dismissal..

[Alex & Books 📚 @AlexAndBooks_]

Nassim Taleb spends 30 hours every week reading books.

Here are 27 reading tips from @nntaleb:

1) The minute I was bored with a book or a subject I moved to another one, instead of giving up on reading altogether.

2) The trick is to be bored with a specific book, rather than with the act of reading.

3) A good book gets better at the second reading. A great book at the third. Any book not worth rereading isn’t worth reading.

4) I follow the Lindy effect as a guide in selecting what to read: books that have been around for ten years will be around for ten more; books that have been around for two millennia should be around for quite a bit of time, and so forth.

5) The reading of a single text twice is more profitable than reading two different things once.

6) A private library is not an ego-boosting appendage but a research tool.

7) Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market allows you to put there.

8) Drink old wine. Read old books. Keep old friends.

9) Read nothing from the past one hundred years.

10) Never read a book that can be adequately summarized.

11) Never read a book you would not reread.

12) No book that can be shortened survives.

13) Books that endure don't look like good books; they are almost always very poorly written, but address fundamental topics.

14) What matters for a book is depth and relevance, which is extremely rare. Plus internal, not external coherence. Books that have them don't need the cosmetic shit.

15) When a risk taker writes a book, read it. In the case of Peter Thiel, read it twice.

16) Keep the book. Easier to remember contents just by looking at it. Often not even necessary to consult notes.

17) I don't remember what I learned in class. I remember much of what I read on my own.

18) To become a scholar, spend decades reading 30-40 h/week.

19) You will accumulate more knowledge and more books as you grow older, and the growing number of unread books on the shelves will look at you menacingly. Indeed, the more you know, the larger the rows of unread books. Let us call this collection of unread books an antilibrary.

20) I don’t read newspapers. I don’t watch television. I’m not on Facebook. I don’t care for the social networks. I’m on Twitter, but I use it only as a means to an end. I read books.

21) Books are not read by the majority because they read the Internet, which is like junk food for the mind.

22) The unread books on your shelf are like a universe of alternate possibilities waiting to be explored.

23) I divide my spirits into two categories: those I read for the pleasure of reading and those I read for the pleasure of rereading.

24) To see if a book is real, ask 10 people of different backgrounds & professions to summarize it. If the summaries are similar, the book will not survive as it can be shortened to a journal article.
The more the summaries diverge, the higher the dimensionality of the book.

25) If you want to study classical values such as courage or learn about stoicism, don’t necessarily look for classicists. One is never a career academic without a reason. Read the texts themselves: Seneca, Caesar, or Marcus Aurelius, when possible. Or read commentators on the classics who were doers themselves, such as Montaigne—people who at some point had some skin in the game, then retired to write books. Avoid the intermediary, when possible.

26) Criticism, for a book, is a truthful, unfaked badge of attention, signaling that it is not boring; and boring is the only very bad thing for a book. Consider the Ayn Rand phenomenon: her books Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead have been read for more than half a century by millions of people, in spite of, or most likely thanks to, brutally nasty reviews and attempts to discredit her.

27) A novel you like resembles a friend. You read it and reread it, getting to know it better. Like a friend, you accept it the way it is; you do not judge it.

[Love&Bass @lovenbass]

@SpheDludla @Sli_Masikane So was the Will drafted after Tata’s death?
How is ‘died’ in the past tense, as if he knew where he would die, and why would the testator refer to himself as Mr Mandela?

[Love&Bass @lovenbass]

@santacruzbikes The Mountain Goat

https://t.co/xn57PACu0v

[Jared Wright @jaredwright17]

Stephen Donald on the Springboks:

#FRAvRSA

[Love&Bass @lovenbass]

@BenjiNaesen @VanPinpin Primoz Roglic telling the media he doesn’t care which Jumbo-Visma rider wins La Vuelta. Maybe that’s just, PR..

#LaVuelta2023 #PR

https://t.co/kgdlNYF9Pg

[Mirroring Lives @MirroringLives]

Steady internet connection
Handwritten letters
Spontaneous getaways
Personal space
Daily walks in nature
The comforting aroma of old books
Fresh flowers on the table
A well-stocked pantry
Unhurried conversations
Artistic outlets
Long-term friendships
Smell of rain on a dry day
A robust library
Regular stargazing
Local farmer's market produce
Physical copies of photos
A free weekend
Low noise pollution
A personal sanctuary at home
The feeling of clean sheets

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

TRUE WEALTH (2nd Ed)

Worriless sleeping
Clear conscience
Reciprocal gratitude
Absence of envy
Foamy coffee
Crusty bread
Inexperienced enemies
Frequent laughs
No meals alone
No gym classes
Gravel bicycling
Good digestive functions
No Zoom meetings
Periodic surprises
Nothing to hide: financial and fiscal tranquility
Muscular strength & endurance
Ability to nap
Access to a hammock

[Robert F. Kennedy Jr @RobertKennedyJr]

Talking leadership with @JoeRogan. A good leader brings forth people’s better natures. I am running for President to do exactly that. #Kennedy24

[Love&Bass @lovenbass]

#EkLewe #YesYes #awehmebra

[Love&Bass @lovenbass]

No end to techno.