Michael Mertens
@mikemememe
Michael Mertens
Inability to relax = mentabolic inflexibility. You need to face a lot of low-grade stressors to drive adaptation and get sufficient rest. That means reading, writing, studying, talking, editing, tinkering, creating, communicating, delegating... lots and lots of work, done primarily at a relaxed pace, with dogged persistence.
If you’re constantly... See more
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Mentabolism
But the real game-changer? The arrival of living cells. Suddenly, the universe wasn't just complex; it was creating code – like DNA – capable of storing, transmitting, and using information to trigger action. And the most amazing part? The code started making more code. It was as if the universe had learned to write its own software, constantly
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This phenomenon, where energy can become mass, led to the creation of fundamental particles like quarks, leptons, and bosons
Lars Tvede • Hyperintelligence
As nicely explained by Rovelli (2019), we are biased to think about the “essence” of things, where sometimes the most important thing to look at is change and dynamics taking place through interactions.
Yair Neuman • Betting Against the Crowd
"I was waiting for something extraordinary to happen, but as the years wasted on, nothing ever did unless I caused it.”
—Charles Bukowski