The key to life is to manage your own reactions, rather than control external factors.

If I had to emphasize any “ism”, I think it would be empiricism (focusing on facts) and humanitarianism (focusing on kindness and compassion).

went hiking in the rainforest over the weekend. Even with a guide, I saw many animals, including monkeys, elephants, and bears climbing trees to eat honey.

A lot of problems are solved by waking up early and working out. Waking up early is as close to a life cheat code as you will find. It creates evidence of your power and control over your world. That bleeds into every other area of life. Confidence is built, not born.

Will auto-driving be a hot concept and explosion point in 2025?

Tomorrow is the electronics show and AMD is releasing a new chip, so I’m buying AMD stock today. #Stock

The Lao beer is so good.

Today we live under conditions of information super-abundance, but we sometimes still operate under the presumption of information scarcity. For example, we are tempted to ravenously consume information as if we might somehow miss out on something of value or else find that the information has somehow run out before we’ve had a chance to take some for ourselves.

Bought a pair of lazy glasses, which are great! I can lie down and read, and don't need to look at the keyboard when using a laptop.

Blue Dot Effect: The more we solve our problems, the more we widen the definition of “problem” so that our number of problems remains constant. So don’t expect a life without problems. Progress doesn’t mean reducing your quantity of struggles, but increasing their quality.
The goal of life is to trade bad problems for better ones.

Goal Dilution Effect: We assume that the more arguments we give, the better our case. In reality, our weakest arguments dilute the strongest. Generally, you’ll only be as convincing as your worst point, so instead of making as many arguments as you can, make only the best.

Event Bias: One reason negativity dominates the news is that bad news tends to happen suddenly while good news tends to happen gradually so is rarely newsworthy on any particular day. But even though it may not get as much attention, good news is always happening.

Stockdale Paradox: The optimal state of mind is neither optimism, which leaves you unprepared for adversity, nor pessimism, which destroys motivation, but optimistic pessimism: by preparing for the worst outcomes, you increase confidence in dealing with any outcome, and thus, you increase hope.

Baumol’s Cost Disease: As an industry’s productivity increases, wages in that industry naturally rise. This forces wages—and prices—in services without increased productivity to also rise to stay competitive.
Thus, as a country gets richer, goods become cheaper, but labor-intensive services like healthcare & college tuition cost more.

⁠Region-Beta Paradox: Often we fail to improve our lives simply because things don't get bad enough. If your new job is hell, you’ll leave it, but if it’s just unsatisfying, you’ll likely grind it out. Thus, small problems often threaten our quality of life more than big ones.

Dawkins’ Law of the Conservation of Difficulty: The easier an academic field, the more it will try to preserve its difficulty by using complex jargon. Physicists use simple terms if possible, while postmodern theorists try to complexify their discipline by writing like this。

Online services start out serving users. When they have enough users, they switch to serving advertisers/shareholders, at the expense of users. For instance, Google Search initially showed you what you searched for, but now largely shows you what it wants you to see.

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