Jason Shen
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Jason Shen
Jim Simons on luck: "People underestimate its importance except when things go badly. Then they’re very happy to ascribe it to bad luck, which it may be, of course.
One has to recognize that luck plays a meaningful role in everyone’s lives. You get born to decent parents in a good part of the world, and you’re way ahead of the game.... See more
Frederik Christopher Gieschenx.comA remarkable investor comments on the importance of luck (versus skill)
Noah Kagan hiring high schooler to create content plus his own Free Work to job story
Make your version of a copy
This realtor does “speed tour” videos and its probably the best thing you’ll watch today https://t.co/ucz6Brhz14
Turner Novakx.comWhy see it slow when you can see it fast?
Chatbots are able to produce high-quality, sophisticated text in natural language. The authors of this paper believe that AI can be used to overcome three barriers to learning in the classroom: improving transfer, breaking the illusion of explanatory depth, and training students to critically evaluate explanations. The paper provides background
... See moreEthan Mollick • Article
“You do realize that I’m management now, right? I’m not service anymore, John, so I don’t go around shooting people in the head,” Sofia notes. She’s essentially a tech platform executive now, trying to avoid getting pulled into social media battles.
“Look, I made a deal when I agreed to run this hotel, and that deal said I had to follow the rules of... See more
“Look, I made a deal when I agreed to run this hotel, and that deal said I had to follow the rules of... See more
The John Wick Universe is Cancel Culture — Remains of the Day
John Wick and Cancel Culture
Other studies published in 2006 and 2009 showed something similar—that people who read a lot of fiction tend to be better at empathizing with others (even after the researchers had accounted for the potential bias that people with greater empathetic tendencies may prefer to read novels). And, in 2013, an influential study published in Science found... See more
Ceridwen Dovey • Can Reading Make You Happier? | the New Yorker
Evidence that reading makes you more empathic
Really good HBR article about tough lessons for new CEOs of bigger companies (2004 but still very relevant)
IF A GREAT MUSICIAN PLAYS GREAT MUSIC BUT NO ONE HEARS . . . WAS HE REALLY ANY GOOD?
It’s an old epistemological debate, older, actually, than the koan about the tree in the forest. Plato weighed in on it, and philosophers for two millennia afterward: What is beauty? Is it a measurable fact (Gottfried Leibniz), or merely an opinion (David Hume), or... See more
It’s an old epistemological debate, older, actually, than the koan about the tree in the forest. Plato weighed in on it, and philosophers for two millennia afterward: What is beauty? Is it a measurable fact (Gottfried Leibniz), or merely an opinion (David Hume), or... See more