I like how Bezos' fridge quote is planted OVER one of his kid's drawings.
Yeah, I thought that was odd/funny. Like he just put it there for the picture or something.
Coolest Things I Learned in 2018
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#52I like how Bezos' fridge quote is planted OVER one of his kid's drawings.
It's ok, the quote didn't specify that affection needed to come from your own children, he's still on track to succeed
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#53Love this collection.
> The reader donates his time and attention, which are supremely valuable commodities. In return, you the writer must give him something worthy of his gift to you
Great stuff! Always easy to forget this.
And that picture of GDP over time. Amazing to watch China come online despite the late start. A titan wakes.
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#54I like how Bezos' fridge quote is planted OVER one of his kid's drawings.
I agree that was an odd decision by the PR company responsible for posting that.
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#56Whenever there is a market fad/phenomena with low or no barriers and a flood of entrants—the best strategy is often: Be the arms dealer. The lowest profile players in high-profile, low-barrier industries are almost always the most profitable. Don't sell wine, sell barrels. Don't make movies, create animation software. Don't own restaurants, build the restaurant supply company. I ALWAYS KNEW IT!
All those cryptocurrency exchanges, they're the true winners of the nonsensical Bitcoin craze... And similarily, NVIDIA really profitted a lot from the deep learning boom by selling all those GPUs to datacenters at a high cost...
>All those cryptocurrency exchanges, they're the true winners of the nonsensical Bitcoin craze...
Absolutely! There are financial geniuses in the cryptocommodity game, but their business model has nothing at all to do with coin prices.
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#57I really enjoyed: World GDP animation by country: - it is insane how near japan got to us even being such a small country - kudos to china for falling way out of the race to the top and then "out of the blue" reaching #2 at the very end -- shows exponential growth How camera lenses change the way we look: - at the first shot with the 20mm or so lens, the guy's nose looks huge and funny compared to the rest of the pic…
Reading Factfulness got me to pay attention to per capita GDP growth rates over decades, as opposed to static comparisons at the moment. China blew my mind. Their per capita GDP has increased around 130x (in constant dollars) since 1960, from the $60/year range to over $8000/year. I now use it as a rebuttal to the stock assumption that Western-style democracy, capitalism, and individualism are the only route to prosp…
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#58"To survive a Northern winter, bees change the composition of the swarm by shrinking the overall population, caulking the hive, getting rid of the deadweight males (i.e., ALL of the males), and laying just enough eggs to preserve a minimal survivable population through the winter and into spring. They cluster together in the center of the hive, keeping the queen in the center, shivering their wings to create kinetic…
The bees would teach Thanos how stupid his idea was by surviving year after year, because cutting a population in half does almost nothing. This is one of the things that have irked me the most about the Avengers movies, they propagate his idea as somehow making any sense at all, when in fact it is doing a great disservice to the world by not teaching them about populations and use of resources. A reduction of the universe's population by half would be made up for quite quickly as if nothing had ever happened and billions or trillions slaughtered for nothing. In cancer treatment you usally need at least a log kill or preferably multiple log kills to affect change. A better snap of fingers would have probably been to teach the universe to use less and recycle more or teach how to use contraception.
https://www.endurocide.com/knowledge-base/blogs/log-reductio...
http://www.d.umn.edu/~jfitzake/Lectures/DMED/Antineoplastics...
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#59Old Status Symbols: Luxury goods Position of authority Busy-ness Endorsed by establishment New Status Symbols: Fitness Position of influence Flexible schedule Creative Output Self-actualization Independent --> First time I've read this, but great incite that I've certainly seen as well.
Reading the tweet source of this one, interestingly the author left out " + Anti-fragile" after Independent in his version.
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#60Two points: 1) Jeff Bezos' quote on the fridge is the maximum of lame. This is the guy that treats his employees really well and cares about them more than about his personal wealth, right? 2) Avoid boring people. Why? Some people are just boring through no fault of their own. A series of misfortunes brought them into that stage. There are stuff to learn from boring people to and they deserve attention and love like…
>Avoid boring people My experience is that this one-off is generally used as a way to be a dick to people who live a life you don't agree with, or that is opposed to your own. I have yet to meet a boring person. Everyone is a hot weirdo when you really get to know them. It's a matter of overcoming your own ego and realizing that your 'boring' is just another way of living. Subsequently, those sort of bullshit phrases…
Try going on a couple blind dates.