Vijay>"Creativity arises behind the conscious mind." @.naval
>“Your brain is most intelligent when you don’t instruct it on what to do—something people who take showers discover on occasion.” @.phalgun_r
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>"The general principle of antifragility: it is much better to do things you cannot explain than explain things you cannot do." - @.nntaleb
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Probability distributions 😖
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_probability_distributions
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WhatsApp dark mode.. 😖
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>"As many as 21 suitors have lined up for a digital bank licence in Singapore, despite just 2% of its 5.9 million people being unbanked. But not many bidders may have the expertise to run a digital bank in a heavily regulated market" the-ken.com
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>"You never cure structural defects, the system corrects itself by collapsing" - @.nntaleb
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>Making sense and being right are not the same thing" - @.nntaleb #skininthegame
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>"A country's assets reside in the tinkerers, the hobbyists, and the risk-takers." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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>"When gambling, think about what's probable.. When hedging, think about what's plausible.. When preparing, think about what's possible." @.harrydcrane
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>"You are missing the plot if you don't understand growth:
‘The climate was warmer before’
– It’s the rate at which the temperature increases!
‘This startup is tiny, why is it worth $2 billion’
– Look at their growth rate
‘only 1000 cases of COVID-19’
– It's the growth rate!" @.maxcroser
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>"A secular #COVID19 Pascal's Wager:
1. If you're correct that people are overreacting, in a year, you can say "I told you so"
2. If you're wrong, there's a 30% chance that someone you infect will be hospitalized and a 10% chance they'll die.
Small upside, huge downside." @.NeilShenvi
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>"Accept the rationality of time, never its fairness and morality." - @.nntaleb
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>"According to biologists, the function of zebras' stripes is to ward off insects.
Based on that idea, a team of scientists painted zebra stripes on cows. This reduced the number of biting flies on the cows by more than 50%.
Applied evolutionary biology!"
https://twitter.com/SteveStuWill/status/1237770255566544906?s=19
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Steve Stewart-Williams on Twitter
“According to biologists, the function of zebras' stripes is to ward off insects. Based on that idea, a team of scientists painted zebra stripes on cows. This reduced the number of biting flies on the cows by more than 50%. https://t.co/rMFgiOr1he Applied evolutionary biology!”
Watching #1917movie.. don't say France, Britain, Germany, fought the war. It's governments, rulers..
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>Seville, Spain during quarantine. A fitness instructor hosts workout on a rooftop and people can join from their balconies - BeAmazed
https://www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/comments/fj03ll/seville_spain_during_quarantine_a_fitness
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Watched #Logan, wolverine movie..
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#Doubt. Let's say I've $1000 invested in bonds. Can I print currency notes fully backed by bonds I'm holding? 🤔
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So far, Dow Jones index is up 3.5%, #bitcoin is up more than 7%.. for the day
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"Resting is valuable only if you are resting *from* something." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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T + 53 days
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Google quick draw
https://quickdraw.withgoogle.com/
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>"Males over 18 and females over 16 years old may marry with their parents' or guardians' consent, Otherwise South Korea's age of consent to marriage is 20" Wiki
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WA
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weekly jobless claims, a 30σ event https://t.co/LEO7s5TXsH
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>It isn’t 10,000 hours that creates outliers, it’s 10,000 iterations. @.naval
>It isn't 10,000 experiences that creates wisdom, its 10,000 reflections. @.KyleTibbitts
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>Everything is about time, except time, time is timeless. @.EriTankoka
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>“Tradition is a set of solutions for which we have forgotten the problems. Throw away the solution and you get the problem back. Sometimes the problem has mutated or disappeared. Often it is still there as strong as it ever was.” — Donald Kingsbury
@.ShaneAParrish
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>"Heuristic: when picking a restaurant in an unfamiliar city, don't look at the menu, look at the clients." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb #heuristic
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>"The most important aspect of fasting is that you feel deep undirected gratitude when you break the fast." - @.nntaleb
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>"One of the biggest problems with the world is that fools are always so sure and certain about everything and intelligent people are so full of doubts and uncertainties."
@.ProfFeynman
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Watching #TerminatorDarkFate..
So it's not an American, and it's not a boy.. This time, an illegal immigrant girl (not his son) from Mexico saves this world.. 😊
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>If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. ―Haruki Murakami 📚
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>Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless. – Jamie Paolinetti
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I have many keys, but no door. I have space, but room. I will allow you to enter, but not leave. What am I?
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You may survive month long lockdown, but your country's economy couldn't..
You may survive with one hundredth of your usual consumption, but your country's economy couldn't..
#covid19
https://charleseisenstein.org/essays/the-coronation/
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The Coronation | Charles Eisenstein
Covid-19 is showing us that when humanity is united in common cause, phenomenally rapid change is possible. None of the world’s problems are technically difficult to solve; they originate in human disagreement. In coherency, humanity’s creative powers are boundless.
>You don't wear a mask jus because you have evidence that transmission is airborne. You wear a mask because YOU DON'T KNOW whether transmission is airborne.
#Asymmetry @.nntaleb
https://t.co/A8VyyVFW2A
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>"Wimbledon reportedly paid $2 million a year for pandemic insurance for the last 17 years
(Total: $34 Million)
For this year's cancellation as a result of the Coronavirus, Wimbledon will reportedly receive $141 million from the policy." @.darrenrovell
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JUST IN: US government debt has passed $24 trillion
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>"Returns are made on the way up. Reputations are made on the way down." @.naval
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>"All u have is this moment. You can have the moment. Or, the mind" @.itsthe_ASK
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>"Success show you to the world, failure show you to yourself." @.jolatankoka
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>"The virus divides us, threatening the lives of the old and the urban, while threatening the livelihoods of the young and the rural." @.naval
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>"I’m happiest when my current-self is doing something that my future-self will benefit from." @.mkobach
(How do you do something that your future-self will benefit from?)
>"Love your future-self more than your current-self" @.mkobach
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Watching #Contagion..
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>"If you do not take risks for your ideas you are nothing. Nothing." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb #risk
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>"Contra the prevailing belief, "success" isn't being on top of a hierarchy, it is standing outside all hierarchies." - @.nntaleb
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>"Envy, like thirst for revenge, is the wicked person's version of our natural sense of injustice." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Watching #Shazam.. /307
Groups Search for Consensus, Individuals Search for Truth https://nav.al/consensus
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Groups Search for Consensus, Individuals Search for Truth
What’s considered to be true is fought over. Individuals search for truth but groups search for consensus—and society is the largest group. So the biggest problem we run into is this: What society wants for you is not always what’s good for you. Even smart, critical thinkers go along with many of society’s truths, knowing deep down they are lies. Here’s a simple example: “Money won’t make you happy” More
"Wealth is a positive sum game and status is a zero-sum game." — @.naval /309
Sai Vishal@vjy lol. That's so accurate