Consultant on operations, product management, digital marketing, entrepreneur. Into real-estate. Former editor, astro, dev, blogger. Analytical. Dad. Husband.
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Probably the most irrelevant and the most to the point article on #parenting I've read in a bit.
theatlantic.com/family/archi…
It’s official: I’m a one-percenter ✨
This year, I read over 1.8M words in Pocket — that’s more than 25 books! #MyYearInPocket xitter.gq/Pocket/status/13344221…
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Time < Attention < Connection = Engagement
“‘Paying Attention’ Is Overrated” by amy brill link.medium.com/hOmPDPiKK9
In short, people get rich when they "[maximize the number of] lucky events that they can exploit to increase their wealth if they are talented enough."
In other words, talent and work (or hustle). pocket.co/xd2A_z?cta=1&src=p…
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Old article but "the *average* age of participants in 100-mile ultras was 44." elemental.medium.com/extreme…
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Old but must-read
"Population decline isn’t a good thing or a bad thing. But it is a big thing. A child born today will reach middle age in a world in which... onezero.medium.com/by-the-en…
Old article and perhaps unnecessarily alarming - but what's if it's not...?
"Half of winning is knowing what it looks like, and this requires a... medium.com/s/2069/the-return…
The reason to go to uni right after school: postpone work for a bit where you will likely become too set in your ways or non-experimenting or non-creative.
Hint: you do not need to go to uni, just avoid work. Or at least work that isn't fun or... pocket.co/xdpuGB
"Technology for large-scale, direct democracy is less about elections and more about empowering policy debate"
Boring but more substantial.
Otherwise, if we just get technology to let us all vote real time about everything, we'll simply become an... pocket.co/xdd9b_
"What we’ve now taken as the norm and the correct form for the whole world — liberal, secular, democratic, capitalistic — is truly exceptional, recent, rare, fragile, and quite contingent."
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“When... supchina.com/2019/07/22/why-…
TLDR: We were designed to survive - happiness isn't the point. neurosciencenews.com/human-h…
Social networks' interests are not aligned with our interests for context, clarity, substance and getting us as close as possible to truths.
Their interest is to provide increasingly more information and add to our confusion - just to have... link.medium.com/jhZcVOmsNY
'What is needed, then, is not a “once-and-for-all” type of quitting but ongoing training: the ability not just to withdraw attention, but to invest it somewhere else, to enlarge and proliferate it, to improve its acuity.' medium.com/p/the-only-way-to…