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They all either came directly from, or were heavily influenced by, the military. Why? Are militaries home to the greatest technical visionaries? The most talented engineers? Perhaps. But more importantly, they’re home to Really Big Problems That Need to Be Solved Right Now.

Physicists and mathematicians want to discover regularities. People say, what use is disorder. But people have to know about disorder if they are going to deal with it.

5. YOU ARE A GRIT MACHINE. ARE YOU THINKING LIKE A SICK PERSON? A. I know what my most important thing is and I’m focusing on that. B. Can’t answer right now. I’ve got three hundred things on my to-do list.

(The negative influence of rising commodities on stocks holds true during inflationary and disinflationary periods—but not necessarily during a deflation. In a deflation, rising commodity prices are generally positive for stocks.)

Thus, from a technical and economic perspective I categorize the Bitcoin network as a communication protocol, specifically in this case a monetary communication protocol, which means it benefits from network effects and robust simplicity, and is quite resistant to disruption.

(1) thinking ahead, or viewing the situation as just one moment on a larger, longer timeline and being able to identify it as just one point to get past in order to reach a better future point; (2) being specific and setting specific goals, or defining your end point as discretely as possible and pooling your attentional resources as specifically a

Experimentation began anew after the war. Amphibious landing ships were recycled as “roll on–roll off” vessels to transport trucks along the coast, improving on techniques originally developed to land troops and tanks in over-the-beach invasions.

“The executive who wants to be effective and who wants his organization to be effective polices all programs, all activities, all tasks. He always asks: ‘Is this still worth doing?’ And if it isn’t, he gets rid of it so as to be able to concentrate on the few tasks that, if done with excellence, will really make a difference in the results of his o

True objectivity can never be achieved—even the scientific objectivity of Holmes isn’t ever complete—but we need to understand just how far we stray in order to approximate a holistic view of any given situation.