Notes on 12 Lessons of History
Highlights from Justin Shapiro
Highlights from Justin Shapiro
A stock is measured at one specific time. Flow is roughly analogous to rate or speed in this sense.
In the coming decade, career success will depend much less on your physical location than where you spend time online. That means that getting into the right group chats and online communities has never been more important. Living on the internet will be the great equalizer. This past year catalyzed a wave of interest in… View Article
Noetic sciences as «how beliefs, thoughts, and intentions affect the physical world»
Los sólidos platónicos, regulares o perfectos son poliedros convexos tal que todas sus caras son polígonos regulares iguales entre sí, y en que todos los ángulos sólidos son iguales.
La mayoría de los asuntos puedan colocarse en una escala lineal…
Esta conjetura afirma que si apilamos esferas iguales, la densidad máxima se alcanza con una apilamiento piramidal de caras centradas. Esta densidad es aproximadamente del 74%.
Un listado de libros. Leídos, leyendo y por leer.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
If you’re going to try, go all the way.
The sentiment which, amidst the perpetual change of human affairs, was most descriptive of their real tendency.
A compendium of definitions.
One option is changing how we consume information.
If you have 2 choices to make and it’s 50/50, take the path that’s more painful in the short term
If struggling to think clearly about a subject, draw it out.
It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law. Every project costs 2x as much and takes 3x as long – even when you factor this into your projections.
If someone brags about their success or happiness, assume it’s half what they claim. If someone downplays their success or happiness, assume it’s double what they claim.
The more uncomfortable the activity, the more likely it will lead to growth. The more comfortable the activity, the more likely it will lead to stagnation. 1000 uncomfortable hours > 10,000 comfortable hours
If procrastinating on an item, you only have 2 options: 1. Make the pain of not doing it greater than the pain of doing it. 2. Make the pleasure of doing it greater than the pleasure of not doing it.
GPT-3: generative pre-trained transformer 3
The learning curve.
There’s a famous story of British colonialists trying to reduce the snake population in India.
The Lucas paradox or the Lucas puzzle is the observation that capital does not flow from developed countries to developing countries.
It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
Nobody scapes from Death
Best way to structure a website best speed of website SEO
A letter by Hunter S. Thompson.
XML (Extensible Markup Language) is a markup language similar to HTML.
A list of things that everyone should know about.
The evolution-by-natural-selection model leads to something of an arms race among species competing for limited resources.
Ten priniciples to follow while debating.
Invincible ignorance is used in Catholic moral.
Human beings understand intuitively how to perform but cannot verbalize the rules or procedures behind it.
Meno’s paradox on inquiring and knowledge.
Russell’s teapot is an analogy, formulated by the philosopher Bertrand Russell (1872–1970), to illustrate that the philosophic burden of proof lies upon a person making unfalsifiable claims, rather than shifting the burden of disproof to others.
The goal is to minimize the number of regrets in life.
In modern times, the Ides of March is best known as the date on which Julius Caesar was assassinated in 44 BC.
A list of the books I should or want to or have read.
Consider a future device, a sort of mechanized private library in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility. It is an enlarged intimate supplement to his memory. —Vannevar Bush, As We May Think
Don’t repeat yourself
Civil inattention is the process whereby strangers who are in close proximity demonstrate that they are aware of one another.
Expresión latina del principio jurídico que señala quién está obligado a probar un determinado hecho ante los tribunales.
Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us.
Objectives and key results (OKR) is a framework for defining and tracking objectives and their outcomes.
A brocard is a legal maxim in Latin that is, in a strict sense, derived from traditional legal authorities, even from ancient Rome.
Monte Carlo simulation is a computerized mathematical technique that allows people to account for risk in quantitative analysis and decision making.
The Critical Zone, surface and near-surface environment, sustains nearly all terrestrial life.
Concept for a unit that could be used in measuring and quantifying our brain’s activities.
A vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft is one that can hover, take off, and land vertically.
There are two and only two ways to get paid when you invest in an asset.
The Brier score is a proper score function that measures the accuracy of probabilistic predictions.
Here’s the rule of three. It’s a long time computer-person rule of thumb that you can apply to your life now. It’s also called the Backup 3-2-1 rule.
There is no controlling life.
Qué es lo que define que queramos leer una entrada o post.
Highlights from Peter Thiel’s business book.
Notes on Churchill’s first part of his autobiography.
Notes on David Christian’s book on the origin of the universe.
Notes on Vaclac Smil’s introductory book on energy.
Some of the quotes and aphorisms from Familiar quotations.
Notes on Bigdata.
Highlights on how ro be inspired by nature through biomimicry.
Highlights on Gretchen Rubin’s biography of Winston Churchill.
Highlights of Seneca’s book on living a good life.
Highlights from the book on rationality by Eliezer Yudkowsky.
Highlights on Robert T. Kiyosaki’s book.
Highlights from Sir Walter Scott’s Journal.
Highlights from the book on two great scottish thinkers by Dennis C. Rasmussen.
Highlights on a short biopgraphy of Teddy Roosevelt by Edward Stratemeyer & Charles Copeland
Highlights from the book by George S. Clason on how to grow rich.
Highlights from Benjamin Franklin’s compendium of aphorisms.
In 1726, at the age of 20, Benjamin Franklin created a system to develop his character.
Una breve guía sobre como grabar, publicar y distrubuir un podcast utilizando unicamente un telefono móvil.
A compendium of more than 250 mental models.
Douglas Adams came up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies.
How far in time are we from famous people in history?
My CO2 footprint seems to be 8,95tn/year.
What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
Desde 2014, Mar y yo nos sacamos una foto navideña que enviamos a familia y amigos.
Un listado de los sitios que he visitado.
Un listado de mis newsletters favoritas.
Un listado de las herramientas digitales que más uso.
Un listado de mis restaurantes favoritos.
Un listado de mis podcasts favoritos.
Un listado de mis documentales favoritos.
Un listado de mis películas favoritas.
Un listado de mis series favoritas.
Una cronología de los eventos más importantes de mi vida.
A set of principles, rules and beliefs that inform my decisions.
Un listado de los blogs que más leo.
An eye-opening story on how to live life.
[…] grace to accept with serenity, the things that cannot be changed…
Un listado de las extensiones que utilizo en Google Chrome.
It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
It turns out putting a vlue on tree is more difficult than expected.
Do you know what «Ubuntu» actually means?
This parable has been used to illustrate the inability of man to know the totality of reality.
We can only truly live in the present.
On the odds on being born and being grateful.
There have always been conflicts.
We were born to work together like feet, hands and eyes…
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
Vague but exciting…
Wabi sabi is a Japanese design concept.
It is not the critic who counts…
We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones.
A Cherokee legend about life.
The purpose of life is right in front of us: It’s to create a reality we want to inhabit .
Man surprised me most about humanity. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived. – Dalai Lama
Inspiring words from William Ernest Henley.
How to become a man, by Rudyard Kipling.
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may…
Human history rarely changes.
He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much…
Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don’t make compromises, don’t worry about making a bunch of money or being successful. Be concerned about doing good work. Protect your work and if you build a good name, eventually that name will be its own currency. – Patti Smith
Learning to fall asleep quickly is a useful skill.
A short video on how to tie your shoes
Creyente o no + qué religión Filosofía + qué filosofía de izquierdas o de derechas A favor / en contra aborto Conservador/liberal/progresista A favor/ en contra maltrato animal Carnívoro/vegetariano/vegano Abstemio/ no abstemio
In North Korea there is no internet access as we know it in the rest of the world, there is Kwangmyong.
Una de las distinciones más importantes que debemos tener muy presentes, es en mi opinión, la diferencia entre valor y precio.
A short story by Isaac Asimov.