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working in the gulf of mexico, the preferred mode of transport to the deepwater rigs was helicopter. they were loud and required a lot of safety awareness from the passengers. you have to take and renew egress training every 5 years.
the alternative was riding a boat. if you got put on a boat because the weather was too rough for the helicopters,
... See moreI sense nobody wants to talk about maybe the most successful US industrial policy in history: the auto bailout of 2008.
Why so uncomfortable?... Two factors I think:
Adam Ozimekx.comKnowledge already exists all around us in abundance. We are changing how people take in, handle, contextualize, and deploy that knowledge at the most practical level. We are building the cognitive infrastructure of knowledge work – not the devices or apps they run on, but the “mental software” running on people’s minds that allows them to use those... See more
Tiago Forte • Building a Second Brain: The 10-Year Vision
This Louis CK bit, rent free forever
captures the great chasm of our times https://t.co/8AP1e67tkK
We get familiar with convenience rather quickly
Drones have been a thing for a long time. We have self-driving cars now. Why don't we have flying cars?
I've probably repeated this one enough.
Excerpt: “Companies are legal fictions which we find convenient to use to move capital around and balance accounting ledgers.“
Most people think of secrets as Easter eggs. They assume that if a secret is important, it’s necessarily going to be hard to find. The best ideas can come from things that are so well-known that they aren’t well-seen.
perell.com • 50 Ideas That Changed My Life - David Perell
Knowledge expands in a fractal manner. All the new knowledge is found in the cracks that are on the edge of the ever-expanding plane.
To study in crystallized fields, seek out institutions. Communities of practice in new fields.