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WEEK 6 Premeditation of future adversity
Gregory Lopez • Live Like A Stoic: 52 Exercises for Cultivating a Good Life
Mind-expanding surprises rather than gap-closing surprises.
Venkatesh Rao • Don’t Surround Yourself With Smarter People
Meanwhile, if the quantity of information is increasing by 2.5 quintillion bytes per day, the amount of useful information almost certainly isn’t. Most of it is just noise, and the noise is increasing faster than the signal. There are so many hypotheses to test, so many data sets to mine—but a relatively constant amount of objective truth.
Nate Silver • The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't
Very important paper for all the industrial policy folks, green energy folks, supply-side progressives, and state capacity folks!
Noah Smith 🐇x.com
PART II:
A prophet without disciples is a madman.
FF would not have achieved a fraction of its success had Peter Thiel not succeeded in winning others to his cause.
None have been more important than two largely unheralded figures: Napoleon Ta and Lauren Gross... See more
blogging
Estebantxo • 1 card
Today's @bopinion post attempts to answer the question: WTF happened in 1971???
https://t.co/O2nbLz8Aq7
Noah Smith 🐇x.comAt its worst, blogging incentivizes authors to create a huge number of low quality posts.