To grow intellectually, you need to be surprised. If we’re not surprised, we’re not really learning. We may add new information, but not really update our understanding of the world. No wow, No aha
One should spend at least a portion of their time while on earth doing and working on things that would never get done otherwise
To appreciate something, one has to be at or above its level. If I’m not getting sth, maybe it’s above me at the moment. Or maybe I am getting it and it’s really not that good, who knows..
How people react to major events, what they choose to question, if and how they pick sides is a great way to learn about them. They won’t be able to hide their true colors, e.g. how people are reacting to Elon buying Twitter
The world is still full of wonders if you are ok with getting disappointed most of the time. The price of wonderment is naiveté
Eliminate expectations and prejudice.. leave just curiosity and possibilities
It is not possible to care about something deeply and not be opinionated and speak up
Why should AI be based on the brain? It obviously doesn’t have to be, but the brain can do amazing things with very little energy
For someone who overthinks, what feels like underthinking is the right amount of thinking
Obsessed beats talented every single time
“I don’t have time” really means “it’s not a priority for me”
It would lead to more interesting games I think if soccer had the same cant-cross-center-line-once-past-it rule they have in basketball. It would be possible only for the opponent to get the ball back into the other side
First rule of writing, never start with a blank page. One should do the leg work to come up with some ideas so as not to ever sit down to a blank piece of paper
“Don’t try to predict what a stock or the market will do. Pick companies, focus on businesses” — WarrenBuffett
Index performance calculation is misleading. It’s imaginary because no one can invest the way it is calculated. Not even if you invest in an ETF that tracks the index exactly!
If you can’t explain why an investment went up or down, you are gambling
Hot take: Consciousness is a property of matter, like weight, height, etc. Intelligence is the result of the structure/depth of that property in any matter. In fact all matter is conscious to some degree
Hot take: Theory of evolution is not incorrect but is incomplete. It is unable to explain the richness of biodiversity we observe. Natural selection, mutation etc is not just for survival. There is a mechanism with infinite creativity and playfulness behind the scene
Life should be lived chaotically and spent totally! It had to have been lived to see where it would go. It shouldn’t be compressible or predictable. It should be irreducible
The best songs, movies, comedy is about revealing our inner voices, emotions and truths. The ones we don’t usually share with the world. We find our inner selves in the notes and on screen, and feel heard, seen, understood without being exposed
It’s amazing how bountiful nature is. One piece of fruit has many seeds, each of which can produce a tree which can produce many fruits. Exponential abundance
The secret to persistent happiness is not to seek the unusual all the time, but to develop the capacity to find the unusual in the mundane.
Being born is often sufficient reason to be criticized
What makes life worth living are all the unexpected surprises and synchronicities
Doubt is not meant to stop, but rather prepare
It can’t be exciting without occasionally being frustrating. Predictable is boring
Relentlessly prune bullshit, don’t wait to do things that matter, and savor the time you have left. Life is short.
