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Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World a book by David Epstein
11 highlights
- Strangely, life gets harder when you try to make it easy. Exercising might be hard, but never moving makes life harder. Uncomfortable conversations are hard, but avoiding every conflict is harder. Mastering your craft is hard, but having no skills is harder. Easy has a cost.
Habits and Inspiration
- Extreme decentralization is a solution looking for a problem, with very small market demand in real world. Most btc & eth maxis have yet to wake up to that.
- Cancel culture creates a mega opportunity for a new social network -- Twitter 2.0 1. Pseudonymous (no verified profiles!) so you can't be cancelled and policies are applied fairly 2. Public follow graph + DMs (Twitter + Telegram) 3. Discovery engine to find insightful new voices
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence [Paperback] Tegmark,
by Max Tegmark
4 highlights
- What would a 6-month curriculum for knowledge workers look like? Here’s an idea: • Build a note-taking system • Learn to write • Build a personal website • Nail the basics of design • Make “inbox zero” a habit Write well, build an audience, learn to organize your ideas.
- Complexity happens by default. Simplicity happens by design.
Complex Systems and