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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.

When I was growing up, I would watch and learn. If someone I respected spoke of someone they respected, I would take note of it. And I would see what and who they admired, and my pool would connect with them all.

Infinite games are the opposite. They have no clear winners or losers, no established time frame for play, and no fixed rules. In infinite games, the field of play is mutable, the number of participants keeps changing, and the only goal is to keep on playing. Art, science, and love are infinite games. Most important: so is peak performance.

you will more often than not be disappointed by the academic outcomes of early readers and happily surprised by the grades of those who learned to read relatively late. The corrected intuitive predictions eliminate these biases, so that predictions (both high and low)

How to Create Instant Authority with Your Audience

Marco Polo, a Venetian explorer born in 1254, is famous for being the first to explore the Silk Road to China. At least, that’s how he is remembered.

There is only one small problem: he wasn’t an explorer at all. Like all good Venetians of the time, he was a merchant.

Long before Marco Polo, plenty

(the number of execs who think a focus group counts as an experiment is shocking).

this: What if you throw the whole confidence paradigm in the trash?

Every year, the number of things that can economically go electric increases as their components get cheaper and more performant. Every year, China grows its Electric Stack capabilities relative to the West. Taken together, that means that more of the physical cutting edge will be Made in China.

And as humanity infuses machines with intelligence,

“Learn to be silent. Let your quiet mind listen and absorb,”