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the function of your professional life is to find the most natural structure that allows you to turn the things you do as naturally as breathing or walking into compounding capital and joy over decades
this, necessarily, requires rotating quickly out of things that aren't it
Will Manidisx.comThere’s a concept in mathematics called ergodicity. A system is ergodic when one person’s experience over time matches the average experience across many people at a single moment. Roll a die a thousand times and your average is about 3.5. Have a thousand people each roll once and their average is about 3.5. Time average equals group average.
Your Odds Are Not the Average
he thought about it and said he didn’t think we should be afraid to embrace whimsy. I asked him what he meant by whimsy, and he struggled to define it. He said it’s that nagging idea that life could be magical; it could be special if we were only willing to take a few risks.
Donald Miller • A Million Miles in a Thousand Years
to be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing.
kyla scanlon • The Ozempicization of Everything
Exploring consciousness as felt uncertainty, its plural forms, and the bodily roots of conscious experience and feelings.
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I want to get at another theory of what consciousness is for. I think the language in the book is consciousness is felt uncertainty. Yeah, isn't that beautiful? That is very beautiful, although in practice I find it very unpleasant. But what does that mean?
So the phrase comes from a scientist named Mark Soames who is a neuroscientist and a
... See moreDumb is not an inborn condition. You get to dumb after going through smart. Smart is stupid because it stops at smart. Smart is a phase. Dumb is post-smart. Smart is finite, well-trod, formulaic, known. The world runs on smart. It’s clearly not working. I want to live in a world where the smartest thing you can do is the dumbest. I want to live in... See more