God doesn’t play dice: he had the math waiting when Einstein needed it, and Grossmann to bridge the gap.

The history of progress is the continued commoditization of once-scarce things.

Commoditization is the mechanism of compounding . It’s only by turning previously rare and unwieldy things into building blocks that we can build bigger and bigger things.

Its biggest beneficiaries are those who recognize what’s becoming commoditized and what will become... See more

Its biggest beneficiaries are those who recognize what’s becoming commoditized and what will become either possible or precious as a result.

But the trend is clear: answers to even very hard questions are becoming cheaper and cheaper and cheaper. Which means the ability to ask them is getting more and more and more valuable.

The history of progress is the continued commoditization of once-scarce things.

These ideas are now a commodity. Take them, remix them, incorporate them, build on them, or even throw them out, leave them sitting in the back of your head until they might be of use.

Humans are not being commoditized. Certain things that we thought only we could do are.

When you view each skill as a valuable commodity – some more precious and rare than others, and therefore more valuable, but commodities nonetheless – you can start thinking strategically instead of waiting for the inevitable.

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And personally, the experience of those AHA! moments and the realization that strategy and religion/mysticism point to the same truth were experiences worth having. I hope reading them is a good experience.