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Henry Wallace

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  • Working with great people is one of the best parts of life.
    What I Wish Someone Had Told Me - Sam Altman
  • Outcomes are what count; don’t let good process excuse bad results.
    What I Wish Someone Had Told Me - Sam Altman
  • The need to regulate our time into a continuous flow is the result of the agricultural and industrial revolutions. It is something we do to serve economies of scale in which we are interchangeable parts. But meaning, creative power and fortune arrive on their own schedules, and imagining that you can or should devote every waking moment to something is absurd.
    Instead of your Life's Purpose - by existentialpervert69
  • This means not waiting to find your story arc, but rather recognizing that there are stories that pop up which you can opt into if you recognize them and have the right skills and virtues
    Instead of your Life's Purpose - by existentialpervert69
  • Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
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  • The Little Book of Common Sense Investing
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  • The Well-Balanced World Changer: A Field Guide for Staying Sane While Doing Good
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  • Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
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  • Contrast business as usual with another perspective, which we can call the radical change thesis. Perhaps, like Adam Smith and Thomas Malthus in their time, we are failing to see something really big on the horizon. Under the radical change thesis, the world by the end of the 21st century will look so different as to make it almost unrecognizable to people living today.
    The Most Important Century: The Animation - EA Forum
  • What Adam Smith and Thomas Malthus failed to see was that they were living in the very beginning of a historically atypical time of rapid change, a period we now refer to as the industrial revolution. The effects of the industrial revolution have been dramatic, reshaping not only how we live our life, but also our ideas about what to expect in the future.
    The Most Important Century: The Animation - EA Forum
  • Carl Sagan dedicated his life to looking for evidence of extraterrestrial life. He failed. He never found it. But he got millions of people—including me—excited about the stars
    Why most people pick the wrong career
  • say no to things that don’t matter and opt out of meaningless races that don’t bring you closer to it
    Why most people pick the wrong career
  • Forget following your passion, which is far too difficult to figure out. Instead, follow your curiosity.
    Why most people pick the wrong career
  • Competition becomes more severe the more alike the competitors are, because requirements of more like individuals are in general more similar. Coexisting species from the same genus compete on average more than other coexisting species of the same family, but usually the fiercest competition is found among individuals of the same species. Competition among conspecific individuals is an important determinant of natural selection among phenotypic variants of a given species. It is distinguished as intraspecific competition from competition between species, interspecific competition.
    Evolution and Competition | SpringerLink
  • If I had to choose any one book from the Bible, it wouldn’t be a Gospel. It would probably be Paul’s Letter to the Galatians because Paul’s Letter to the Galatians contains the famous verse that there is no Jew or Greek, there is no slave or free, there is no man or woman in Christ. In a way, that text — even if you bracket out and remove the “in Christ” from it — that idea that, properly, there should be no discrimination between people of different cultural and ethnic backgrounds, based on gender, based on class, remains pretty foundational for liberalism to this day.
    Philosophy Archives - Marginal REVOLUTION
  • This is likely one of the reasons why genius tends to be clustered. Painters in Renaissance Florence. Playwrights in Elizabethan London. Pop producers in 90s Stockholm. When a group of obsessed people is exploring something together, they can go much faster than you can on your own — they get to learn from each other’s mistakes, and they can share know-how at a very high resolution.
    How MrBeast learns - by Henrik Karlsson - Escaping Flatland
  • Starting [at a young age] he’s read everything that he could find about business. The subject that interests him, he’s read newspapers, biographies, trade press. He went over to his grandfather who was a grocer and he read the progressive grocer magazine, and he read articles on how to stock a meat department... What he’s really done is he’s created this immense vertical filing cabinet in his brain of layers and layers and layers of files of information that he can draw back on now for more than 70 years worth of data.
    Curius / Onboarding