Troy Rodger

Aussie

[George Mack @george__mack]

My favorite Charlie Munger story:

In 1953, Munger was 29 years old.

Recently divorced. Lost the house. Huge social stigma of divorce back then.

His 8-year-old son, Teddy, was diagnosed with cancer.

The leukemia was incurable.

No medical insurance - Munger paid for all his medical care.

Charlie would visit Teddy in the hospital every day -- and then walk the streets crying.

Teddy died at the age of 9.

Charlie was broke, divorced and just lost his child.

99.9% of people would've turned to alcohol, drugs, or suicide. (And you'd understand why)

Munger never did.

Fast forward to 52 years old, a failed surgery left him blind in one eye with the potential of going fully blind one day.

Charlie was an obsessive learner who read every book he could get his hands on.

When confronted with the possibility of going blind and no longer being able to read he said:

"It's time for me to learn braille!"

The only thing that might be more impressive than his intellect was his actions.

RIP.

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Munger on Self-Pity:

"Generally speaking, envy, resentment, revenge, and self-pity are disastrous modes of thought.

Self-pity gets pretty close to paranoia…

Every time you find your drifting into self-pity, I don’t care what the cause, your child could be dying from cancer, self-pity is not going to improve the situation. It’s a ridiculous way to behave.

Life will have terrible blows, horrible blows, unfair blows, it doesn’t matter. Some people recover and others don’t.

There I think the attitude of Epictetus is the best. He thought that every mischance in life was an opportunity to behave well. Every mischance in life was an opportunity to learn something and that your duty was not to be immersed in self-pity, but to utilize the terrible blow in a constructive fashion. That is a very good idea."

[Janson Smith @JansonSmithUK]

Justice for the Honest FBA boys!

Get @The_Honest_Tom and @the_alex_d_ out of X jail.

RT to show support ✊

[Troy Rodger @troyrodger]

@KateBour @ShaanVP @thesamparr This!

[Anand Sanwal @asanwal]

One of the best videos I've seen in a long time

Please spend 5:57 listening to this

The BBC asked kids in 1966 to predict what life will be like in 2000

And their answers are amazing, articulate and generally very very pessimistic and wrong

A few that jumped out:

* 1:29 - fear of automation and not enough work and overpopulation. Echoes what we hear today esp around AI

* 3:25 - we'll be living in domes in the sea or in the Sahara. Amazing.

* 4:09 - remarkably prescient on industrial farming (best prediction of the whole thing IMO)

* 5:22 - Some optimism emerges from 2 of the kids (then back to pessimism)

I asked my kids to predict what life would be like in 2050 and they pointed to climate change, AI automation, etc

They were also pessimistic

But here's the reality:

From 1966 to 2000

* those living in extreme poverty decline from 46.3% to 25.3% (and as of 2018 stands at 10.1%)
* life expectancy has gone up from 54 to 73

The world is, in fact, getting better

Us humans are remarkably good at finding solutions often using technology and entrepreneurship

It's easy to believe all the FUD (fear, uncertainty & doubt) that people tend to propagate but in 2050 or 2100, the trends and data suggest the world will actually be a better place.

After showing my kids the video, I'm hopeful they'll also start thinking about how it might be better (and hopefully they'll play a hand in making it so) AND be skeptical of all the bad news purveyors.

Anyways, I hope you'll watch the video. And for those with kids, maybe watch with them. It's good.

And in closing, British accents are dope.

[Troy Rodger @troyrodger]

Fuck Timmy.. #grouptherapy with @rickygervais #Armageddon

[Ricky Gervais @rickygervais]

Thanks to the amazing audience at #Zurich Arena. We’re all going to Hell. See you there 😂 #Armageddon

[Troy Rodger @troyrodger]

@rickygervais Incredible work @rickygervais Genius 😂😂

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

The Earth at night, as viewed from space.

[Troy Rodger @troyrodger]

@TrungTPhan a clear signal for #netflix with ad rev - “Oreo’s late night guilty selection” anyone? Who wouldn’t want that real estate

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

Internet sleuths hit IMDB to confirm that Paul Giamatti is wasn’t in a film called “The Shmunguss King” in 2012

[Dickie Bush @dickiebush]

@thedankoe Like a scalpel in surgery—the tactics you employ can harm or heal, depending on how you wield them.

[Troy Rodger @troyrodger]

Priorities

[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

In Japan, more paper is used to make manga than toilet paper.

[Troy Rodger @troyrodger]

@joe_portsmouth Copy!

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

It’s a little concerning how good the Boston Dynamic robot has become at jumping and spinning in the air

[Troy Rodger @troyrodger]

@thesamparr Brilliant! 😂

[Troy Rodger @troyrodger]

@Martholio In America. Every 2 min a *thing* does a *thing* #pleasedonate #ad

[Troy Rodger @troyrodger]

#Zurich getting back into the #christmas vibe.. awesome to see 🎅

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

50-year old TradFi bankers watching 20-year old crypto traders blow up

[Troy Rodger @troyrodger]

@stephsmithio The future of roadside assistance..

[Steph Smith @stephsmithio]

💡 The electronics system was 5% of car costs in 1970.

It's expected to be 50% by 2030.

Self-driving is not going to be the only advancement when it comes to "car computers"...

Exhibit A: The Ford F-150 has 150m lines of code!

Look out for car malware, app stores, etc

[Troy Rodger @troyrodger]

Sharing + Caring #truecommunityvalue

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

For anyone threatening to leave Twitter, good luck trying to find this fire content on any other platform

[Troy Rodger @troyrodger]

@nathanbaugh27 @SaveToNotion #thread