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If you still listen to the podcast of any of Elon Musk's friends, then you are no friend of mine.
That includes the podcasts of:
- #LexFridman
- #JoeRogan
- #ShaneParrish
- #NavalRavikantElon Musk is a disgusting murderer and nazi and abuser who is fine with pedophelia and enables child pornography.
All mentioned people are friends with him or support him. Some do it more openly, others mix interviews with scientists and apparent experts on interesting topics into their podcast and try to balance out their support of right-wing extremism. It makes no difference.
If you still listen to anyone's of these people's podcasts, I want nothing to do with you. You are listening to your own enemy and don't even realize it.
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If you still listen to the podcast of any of Elon Musk's friends, then you are no friend of mine.
That includes the podcasts of:
- #LexFridman
- #JoeRogan
- #ShaneParrish
- #NavalRavikantElon Musk is a disgusting murderer and nazi and abuser who is fine with pedophelia and enables child pornography.
All mentioned people are friends with him or support him. Some do it more openly, others mix interviews with scientists and apparent experts on interesting topics into their podcast and try to balance out their support of right-wing extremism. It makes no difference.
If you still listen to anyone's of these people's podcasts, I want nothing to do with you. You are listening to your own enemy and don't even realize it.
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For links to specific topics in the conversation: https://x.com/ShaneAParrish/status/1911502345587810747
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Nine sources of advantage:
1. Raw talent/intelligence - Some people are just naturally better and smarter.
2. Hard work - Some people work harder.
3. Differentiation - Seeing the world differently. Doing something different. Reading different books. Interpreting the same information differently.
4. Process / Discipline - Creating a process and following it. Working out every day is a great example.
5. Talent Collector - The ability to hire the best people and get the most out of them.
6. Patience - A lack of patience changes the outcome.
7. Ability to take pain - Are you willing to look like an idiot to get better? How much risk are you willing to take, AND, importantly, can you handle the losses?
8. Temperament - Keeping your head when everyone else is losing theirs.
9. LuckMost of these are within your control.
— Shane Parrish
https://fs.blog/brain-food/august-20-2023/ -
Nine sources of advantage:
1. Raw talent/intelligence - Some people are just naturally better and smarter.
2. Hard work - Some people work harder.
3. Differentiation - Seeing the world differently. Doing something different. Reading different books. Interpreting the same information differently.
4. Process / Discipline - Creating a process and following it. Working out every day is a great example.
5. Talent Collector - The ability to hire the best people and get the most out of them.
6. Patience - A lack of patience changes the outcome.
7. Ability to take pain - Are you willing to look like an idiot to get better? How much risk are you willing to take, AND, importantly, can you handle the losses?
8. Temperament - Keeping your head when everyone else is losing theirs.
9. LuckMost of these are within your control.
— Shane Parrish
https://fs.blog/brain-food/august-20-2023/ -
Writing gives poor thinking nowhere to hide.
When your invisible thoughts are made visible, you are forced to confront them as they are, not as you wish them to be. You can’t simply take a few minutes here and there, get the gist of the problem, and expect to have clear thinking and unique insights.
Good thinking, like good writing, demands patience.
*(and practice —me)*— Shane Parrish
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Good writing is expensive, but poor writing costs a fortune.
Poor writing transfers the work from the writer to the reader. Good writing, on the other hand, nearly reads itself, allowing the reader to spend more time thinking about the ideas than pulling out meaning. Poor writing might be one of the single biggest invisible costs in organizations.
— Shane Parrish
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Good writing is expensive, but poor writing costs a fortune.
Poor writing transfers the work from the writer to the reader. Good writing, on the other hand, nearly reads itself, allowing the reader to spend more time thinking about the ideas than pulling out meaning. Poor writing might be one of the single biggest invisible costs in organizations.
— Shane Parrish
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Better questions
Sounds like we’re losing our grit. We’ve been brought up to think we’re so smart and clever and that we don’t have to work hard for anything that we just give up when we come against a tough problem. The main difference between innovators and the rest of us is that innovators ask more and better questions.
~ Shane Parrishslip:4a903.
#Questions #Quotes #ShaneParrish #Society -
Deluded
The point here is that I think this is one part of what teaching me how to think is really supposed to mean. To be just a little less arrogant. To have just a little critical awareness about myself and my certainties. Because a huge percentage of the stuff that I tend to be automatically certain of is, it turns out, totally wrong and deluded.
~ David Foster Wallaceslip:4a804.
As usual, therein lies a collection of thoughts nicely arranged into a constellation. I sometimes repeat the phrase, “assume positive intent,” to myself and to others as a caution against defaulting without thinking. It seems a base part of our nature—although the ancient benefits seem obvious it’s still only anecdotal evidence—that I default to defense. “Dead last” seems aptly named from the historical perspective, and “first” feels like we’re missing a catchy adjective. (“first fatality” maybe?) What might be called “herd middle” simply feels like the right choice most often. But that’s still defensive; Don’t stand out means blend in means wait and see means be cautious means they’re out to get me.
Boundaries? Yes, please. Rights and safety? Yes, and yes. But if the vast majority of us are really just like me… how great would it be if we assumed positive intent? …or, well, maybe we could do that at least half the time?
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Lifelong learning
Your education shouldn’t end when your schooling does. If you want to get an edge in life, you must be constantly learning, not coasting along on what you already know. Lifelong learning requires the ability to reflect on your mistakes, a lot of reading, and testing what you know.
~ Shane Parrishslip:4a878.
#ExperienceAndLearning #Quotes #ShaneParrish -
Lifelong learning
Your education shouldn’t end when your schooling does. If you want to get an edge in life, you must be constantly learning, not coasting along on what you already know. Lifelong learning requires the ability to reflect on your mistakes, a lot of reading, and testing what you know.
~ Shane Parrishslip:4a878.
That quote from, https://fs.blog/2015/11/lifelong-learning/ , is one of the too-rare times when, upon reading something, I want to leap to my feet knocking my chair over behind me while shouting, “Hear! Hear!”
It’s true that there is some learning which I prefer to observe, rather than directly experience. In such cases “conceptual” learning, rather than experiential learning, is just fine by me. (eg, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYtF0UlznC8 )
In general however, ain’t nothing finer than reading something, making a new connection, writing a blog post about that… or spending weeks figuring out how to bend some javascript-DOM-AJAX thing to do what I want… digging in the innards of an automobile to make a new stereo-unit work… digesting some tome from the anti-library… running a year-plus experiment just to see what happens… just generally being all like, “I’m wondering . . .” And then find out where that curiosity leads.
What’ve you been up to in the learning department lately?
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#ExperienceAndLearning #ShaneParrish