Singapore has no minerals. Japan was bombed to rubble in 1945. Vietnam was at war for decades. All three built cities with parks, public squares, functional public transport, and green urban spaces that serve their people.
Walk through Accra, Lagos, Nairobi, Douala, or Kinshasa and find somewhere to sit that is not a shop, a bar, or a church. You will not find it.
These cities sit inside some of the most fertile, green, tropical land on earth. And somehow every trace of it was designed out of the urban experience. No parks. No shade. No public squares. Nowhere a person can simply exist without spending money.
The geopolitics argument runs out when you look at who recovered from worse and built better. We are collectively and embarrassingly disorganized and we need to start saying that out loud.
Change does not start with governments. It starts with enough people refusing to accept this as normal. Share this if you agree. Talk about it. Demand better from your city.
Segundo a lenda, em uma cidade francesa durante a Idade Média, as mulheres realizavam um hábito curioso.
De manhã, as mulheres casadas adicionavam uma pequena quantidade de veneno no café da manhã de seus maridos, que mais tarde recebiam o antídoto quando voltavam para casa à noite.
Isso garantia que o veneno não os prejudicasse e não tivesse efeitos negativos.
A prática tinha um propósito específico: se os maridos demorassem em retornar para casa, os sintomas como náuseas, dores de cabeça, depressão, vômitos, dores ou falta de ar apareceriam devido ao atraso na administração do antídoto.
Quanto mais tempo o homem passasse longe de casa, mais doente ele ficaria. Ao retornar para casa, a esposa inadvertidamente administrava o antídoto, fazendo com que ele se sentisse melhor rapidamente.
Esse truque dava a impressão de que ficar longe de casa causaria desconforto e levava os maridos a se apegarem mais às suas casas e esposas.
Society is headed towards engineered indentured servitude or structural collapse- which is just indentured servitude with extra steps. Revolutions don't just happen. Someone has to not just allow them to happen but sometimes even fund them.
Is it just me… or are governments around the world starting to act like they’re testing the limits of public patience?
Because from the outside, it almost looks like they’re pushing things further… and watching to see what people will accept next.
At what point does pressure turn into pushback?
Genuine question — where do you think this is heading?
Engineers don't just build things.
They think differently.
4 mental models that separate engineering thinking from everything else:
1. First principles
Don't assume. Break every problem down to what's physically true. Elon Musk on battery costs: "What are batteries made of? What's the market value?" Start there.
2. Failure mode analysis
Before asking "will this work?" ask "how will this fail?" The best engineers design failure in – slowly, visibly, safely.
3. Order of magnitude thinking
Approximate before you calculate. Being 10x right matters more than being 1% precise too late.
4. Systems thinking
Nothing fails in isolation. Every component has a relationship with everything else. The weak link is almost never where you're looking.
These 4 models built everything that works.
Being a highly intelligent outlier doesn't negate your ability to be retarded, paradoxically it actually enables far more creative ways of being retarded.
What's that thing market does whereby you tell yourself that 1st loss was an early entry / stop was too tight / didn't see the liquidity.. etc so you keep taking the wrong side and it just keeps grinding in the opposite direction?
They were scared of the revolution, which would have uprooted and transformed the defective colonial system, eliminated graft, created a merit-based and equitable society.
Developing an edge. No amount of psychology, courses, sitting on your hands, risk management, sticking with one thing etc will turn a red P&L green without edge. And you can't just copy someone else's. The discipline to stick with it only comes from what it takes to develop it.