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In life, you get rewarded for thinking differently; in school punished.

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@nic__carter @NeerajKA Anything else would be irresponsible.

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A successful life is not about winning all the games you play, but about stopping to play all the games that have a winner.

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@naval A committee is an authority without accountability.

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The art of reading books, a thread.

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By making modesty a virtue, we have made excellence a vice.

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When reading, avoid boredom at all costs; the rest will take care of itself.

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Ask for what you want—it's their job to turn you down, not yours. h/t a great call with @JamesClear

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@lexfridman Books over news.

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Books are like podcasts where people have spent years thinking about what to say.

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Academia is where the curious get canceled while the corrupt make careers.

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Meditation is so important because it makes you aware of your thoughts throughout the day. You can catch yourself worrying about something unimportant and just stop and smile. That's the key to happiness.

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"Working hard" is the most popular virtue signal of our time.

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Understanding compounds, memorization doesn't.

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A Guide on Privacy and Security (Online + Bitcoin)

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Philosophy without practicality is like science without rigor.

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@naval You misspelled The New York Times.

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If you speed read, don't read.

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Thomas Jefferson was right. Bitcoin fixes this.

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To come up with new ideas, go for a walk and stop trying.

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Western civilization is dying one scanned menu QR code at a time.

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Universities turn the positive-sum education game into a zero-sum credentials game.

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This amazing clip from Yellowstone aptly illustrates how bureaucratic commissions come up with their unbelievably stupid decisions that harm rather than help—in this case, the environment. In addition, the only solution is correctly identified: you have to fire all these people.

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Buy Bitcoin and books.

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Loneliness is cured by contact with yourself.

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Books make you think; news tells you what to think.

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Academia was the birthplace of great ideas; now it's their deathbed.

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@webdevMason Until recently, I thought the purpose of communication was to find the truth—to “submit ideas to peer review.“ It blew my mind when @Plinz explained that only nerds have this wrong idea about communication; everyone else knows that the true purpose is negotiating alignment.

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To get smart, read books that make you feel stupid.

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Society is so good at convincing a person of collective beliefs that most people mistake it for independent thinking.

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@realGeorgeHotz This reminds me of the funny story of Penrose trying to trick Douglas Hofstadter into a reductio ad absurdum, but then Hofstadter simply admits that he believes large integers can be conscious.

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More important than ever: less news, more books. Here are some of the books I'm currently reading/rereading. Share yours in the comments.

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Meditation does not give you a reason to be happy; it only makes you realize that there is no reason to be unhappy—and there never was.

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Even if you disagree with Bitcoin's monetary policy, changing it would be a catastrophe. (a thread)

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Focus solely on understanding. Memorization is sometimes a by-product of understanding, but understanding is never a by-product of memorization.

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3 years

How it started. How it's going.

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3 years

I watch the news, or TV for that matter, only when I visit my parents, and I’m shocked every time. Each sentence builds the narrative with almost frightening perfection. It’s like living in another reality—the matrix is omnipresent. Please, throw away your TV and buy old books.

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The moment learning becomes your entertainment, you win.

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@EricRWeinstein We don’t elect representatives in Bitcoin. Nobody speaks for the community or Bitcoin—that’s the whole point. The correct response to @allenf32 ’s essay is not “return fire,” but a paper explaining how exactly your ideas are relevant to Bitcoin—if, as you claim, they’re relevant.

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Finally, "The End Of Gold—the reason why Bitcoin is much better money" is out. Based on my talk at the @ValueOfBitcoin conference and the works of @giacomozucco , and @NickSzabo4 , I show why Bitcoin is our only shot at building a new sound monetary system.

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Recommending books is difficult because you need the right book for the right person at the right time.

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@mmjukic When people ask me what it's like to live in Vienna, I always tell this story about a few lounge chairs in a park that were used by everyone all summer and were simply picked up by the city in the fall. That's extreme even by European standards—but not by historical standards.

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Always pick enjoyment over speed. If you love reading, you can't lose.

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Use boredom as your natural content filter.

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The moment you let your readers influence your writing, it's no longer art, it's business.

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“Blockchain but not Bitcoin” is “Spiritual but not religious” for nerds.

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"Books read" is an irrelevant metric: one idea understood is superior to ten books read.

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After reading all day, meditate and go for a slow walk, but that's for a different thread.

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No one ever got wise by reading newspapers.

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Do things out of love, never for love.

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When bored, switch to a different book, not a different activity.

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If you can't decide on a book: ignore the living, read the dead.

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@Austen She’s upset because the existence of another way to earn a Harvard degree devalues her degree as a status symbol. Just like the bluechecks were upset that anyone can now buy one. She’s right, of course: you can get an education anywhere, but you pay Harvard for the status.

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To improve the world, change the idols of the youth from influencers and activists to scientists and entrepreneurs.

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Higher pleasures are rooted in creation; lower pleasures in consumption.

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Do not fight boredom with self-discipline; otherwise, you'll destroy your best content filter.

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You can have a constructive conversation with an expert on almost any topic after reading five books.

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@kitten_beloved “Good thing no other statistics are fake like that.” *Continues reading the newest Pinker piece on the mystery of proles being unhappy even though all the graphs look great.*

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@dergigi Yes, they’re mad that you’re healthy.

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The Boy Who Could Change The World (but who was killed by the system) RIP Aaron Swartz.

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In the real world, there is no prize for finishing a book—put it down, you're wasting your time.

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Understanding compounds, memorization doesn't.

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Either you believe in yourself, or you end up working for people who believe in themselves.

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If the studies are fake, imagine the meta-analyses.

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@Austen "quantum teleportation" is a misnomer. It's just a fancy name for entanglement. You can't "teleport" anything - specifically, you can't transmit any information faster than light.

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I just published: An Introduction To Ergodicity—the flaws in gambling, financial theories, and behavioral economics. This is probably the best essay I have written so far—read it, enjoy it, and share it.

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I need to keep reminding myself of this simple principle: Create more, consume less.

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Buying books isn't an expense, it's an investment in yourself.

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@naval People don't want a Ferrari; they want the life they think people with a Ferrari have.

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“All biologists want to be chemists, all chemists want to be physicists, all physicists want to be mathematicians, all mathematicians want to be philosophers, and all philosophers want to be employed.“

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In the past, people experienced unimaginable tragedies, but fortunately for them, trauma had not yet been invented, so they could go on with their lives.

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@simonsarris Reminds me of the joke where an American asks a Russian agent why he’s flying to the US. R: ��To learn propaganda.” A: “But we don't have any propaganda in the US.” R: “Exactly.”

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The cost of truth. (Delusion Damage)

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@naval The fear already has a name: long covid.

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Compound interest: every new idea enables you to understand unclear ideas from previous books or to combine them in a new way.

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@naval If you have self-love, love from others is luxury; if you don't, love from others is a necessity.

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I owe everything to books and solitude.

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Those who demand the least of themselves demand the most of society.

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@allenf32 @nic__carter @ComfortablySmug

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I'm starting a Bitcoin-only community/meetup in Vienna. @BitcoinVienna -Focused on Bitcoin! -Meet like-minded people -learn how to use @COLDCARDwallet + @wasabiwallet to HODL, How/Why to run a full Node and more... -No "Altcoins" supported. They are worthless. @BitcoinVienna

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The art of solitude is to be alone without being lonely.

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@nntaleb I don't know if you have seen this one sir, but it is worrying.

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Lower pleasures depend on novelty, higher pleasures on practice.

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Alcohol helps to tolerate uninteresting people, for some, that includes themselves.

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On Pursuing Truth - Gregory Chaitin (Against Method)

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@DeepDishEnjoyer Funny he’s trying to flex with interior design when Openai's is perfectly calibrated by the HR department to be as inoffensive, basic, and without substance as possible. You could not be more “warm color basic Scandinavian” if you tried. This includes everyone’s wardrobe.

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Less news, more books. Here are some of the books I've been reading lately—share yours in the comments.

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Breaking: Elon Musk is Not Stupid I explain why @elonmusk ’s texts don’t reveal that he and all his investors are stupid. But the reaction shows that journalists don’t know how real-world decisions are made and therefore mistake simplicity for stupidity.

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The big challenge of the Internet age is how to consume content without being consumed by content.

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@webdevMason It's sad that children are being taught that it's not possible to become a Polymath anymore because there is too much knowledge. I believed it until I read @DavidDeutschOxf 's TBOI, and understood the power of explanations. A realization for which I can't thank Deutsch enough.

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The only hope for liberty and sovereignty. The ultimate "fuck you" to the incompetent elites. The peaceful revolution against the tyranny of bureaucrats. The unstoppable uprising of the sovereign individual. The way towards a better future for our children. That's Bitcoin.

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The three most harmful professions are central bankers, bureaucrats, and journalists.

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@naval My dad used to say: "Well-meant is the opposite of well done."

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A scholar is satisfied with understanding something without publishing it; an academic is satisfied with publishing something without understanding it.

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Quarantine Book List 📚 Retweet this Tweet with a picture of great books so we all have something to read during #COVID ー19.

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The Decline of Society - Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged (Francisco d’Anconia)

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@VitalikButerin

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Books are like podcasts where people have spent years thinking about what to say.

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@bitstein Modern culture: “I just bought this new $2000 Gucci bag!" Bitcoin culture: “I just stacked Sats for the grandchildren of my grandchildren!“

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@naval This lockdown makes the biggest virtue signal of our "hustling culture" seem ridiculous: the business trip.

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We Used To Eat A Lot More Without Becoming Obese Ray Peat and the mystery of obesity The mainstream theory regarding the obesity crisis is that people consume excessive calories and move insufficiently - “calories in, calories out.” Alternative nutritional perspectives, such as

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