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Blows my mind how few people look out the window during flights. These are among the most spectacular scenes ever witnessed by humanity.

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If something is too expensive for most people to buy, standardize and produce in volume. If later it becomes so cheap that people are no longer price sensitive, make an artisan version. This is an eternal commercial loop.

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Einstein worked out relativity with pure thought experiments and you need an A/B test to change some marketing copy.

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4 years

Remote international work is a bigger threat to the western middle class than automation.

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6 years

"In the real world, you won't always have a calculator/computer" Interesting in retrospect that the kids were right that the teachers were full of shit.

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3 years

Uncertainty is a privilege. Who has the most certainty in life? A prisoner. Who has the least? An artist.

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6 years

Overstudied: how to win. Understudied: how to choose games.

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This world is full of games I’d rather lose than play.

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6 years

A lot of successful people who say "work smart, not hard" worked like dogs to get established. Smart vs. hard is a false dichotomy.

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@mmay3r

6 years

Your personal conduct is 1000X more impactful than your political opinions. People wish it were the reverse because opinions are cheap.

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@mmay3r

6 years

Raising money is a good way to learn the weakest parts of your business plan. It’s like free consulting.

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@mmay3r

5 years

If you learn from everything, then it starts to feel like everything happens for a reason.

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4 years

You can predict the long term health of a relationship by whether each cut heals to 99% or 101%.

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2 years

I firmly believe there’s never been a better time and place to be alive.

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@mmay3r

4 years

Anxiety is lack of action. Depression is lack of understanding.

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4 years

The richer your parents, the less likely it is that you’ll end up better off than them. Explains the paradox of why it seems the upper middle class believes in the American dream less than the lower middle class.

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@mmay3r

4 years

Early Amazon PR might be the greatest PR ever. Popular narrative: Amazon grew through word of mouth. Reality: Amazon grew through extremely aggressive marketing. Popular narrative: Amazon was a tech startup. Reality: Amazon spent 3X on marketing vs tech in first few years.

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5 years

Negative sum: war Zero sum: sports Positive sum: business

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@mmay3r

4 years

The phrase "work / life balance" betrays an inherent bias. In what sense is work not part of life? Refame it as "contribution / leisure balance" and see how you feel.

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@mmay3r

5 years

Credit card profitability.

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@mmay3r

4 years

You never want to be the smartest person in the zoom.

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@mmay3r

7 years

Your mind automatically generates thoughts related to the information you consume. Be conscious of your information diet

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@mmay3r

5 years

A walk is never a waste of time.

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@mmay3r

8 years

This is true for all information-based industries. Example: universities.

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The Internet commoditized the distribution of facts. The "news" media responded by pivoting wholesale into opinions and entertainment.

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5 years

How to make a viral tweet: "People like it when you say what they are already thinking but you say it better than they were thinking it. It creates a feeling of intellectual clarity in people who had only vague feelings and biases before."

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Michael

@mmay3r

4 years

Surprisingly hard to distinguish the once-in-a-century pandemic.

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@mmay3r

6 years

Exercising to look better isn’t sustainable, the daily effect is too small. Exercise to feel better. It works every day.

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@mmay3r

7 years

The secret to tweeting is to tweet as if making notes for yourself.

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The secret to public speaking is to speak as if you were alone.

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7 years

If you think your opinions make you a good person, you’re bound to think those you disagree with are bad people.

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@mmay3r

6 years

Advice for nearly everything: 1. Get started. 2. Increase speed while maintaining traction. 3. When things start slipping, ease up, consolidate gains. 4. Go to #2 .

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@mmay3r

4 years

Sentence autocomplete is a great tool for improving your writing. Whenever the autocomplete is right, start over. You were about to say something so predictable it had little information value.

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@mmay3r

7 years

This graph of happiness over age is like an inverse graph of expectations.

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@mmay3r

5 years

The harder I work the more work capacity I develop. I’m sure burnout exists, but I doubt it’s caused only by hard work.

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@mmay3r

6 years

This is your brain on news.

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6 years

Cult: failed religion. Religion: successful cult.

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7 years

Politics is such a cancer that people want things to go badly for everyone when their opponents are in power.

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@mmay3r

6 years

The richer a society, the more it needs fasting holidays and the less it needs feasting ones.

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6 years

People watch sitcoms in search of personality templates.

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5 years

The best people to control wealth are those who created it. The second best are those who bought it. The worst are those who took it.

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4 years

Software created a winner take all economy. It destroyed the blue collars first. You didn’t care. When the hyper-efficient startups emerging from this crisis start hiring in bulk, they’ll hire the top 1% globally, not the top 10% in your tech hub. Then, you’ll care.

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@mmay3r

6 years

Software: creating capital with your fingertips.

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@mmay3r

5 years

Both books and advice are overrated compared to thinking really hard about a problem.

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@mmay3r

6 years

Most of you should ignore advice to spend X% of your income on rent or Y% on transit. The only financial metric that matters is whether your dividends are larger than your expenditures. Until then, spend as little as you can and try to climb out of your serfdom.

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5 years

Distraction addiction is the disease. Smartphones are just a delivery mechanism.

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4 years

Probably the greatest form of privilege in the modern world is being a native English speaker.

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@mmay3r

5 years

Sometimes it’s more efficient to make the mistake than to spend the time wondering whether it would have been a mistake.

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@mmay3r

7 years

Money can only buy you some of your own time, but it can buy you a near limitless amount of the time of other people.

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@mmay3r

7 years

Stripped of their information monopolies, the newspaper is just an opinion aggregator, school a babysitter, university a credential factory.

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@mmay3r

4 years

@paulg The market size for middle class people who want to seem rich is much larger than the market for rich people who don't want to seem ostentatious.

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@mmay3r

6 years

If you're never intellectually confused, you aren't taking enough intellectual risks.

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6 years

Meeting your heroes and seeing their flaws is not a tragedy, it makes you more likely to try something heroic yourself.

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4 years

“I’m sorry for writing such a long letter, I had no time for a short one.” This quote implies that the generative process is easier than the editing one. The myth of the artist as a generative genius may be false. More likely that top artists are geniuses in editing.

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@mmay3r

4 years

Two rules for Twitter replies: - “Yes, and” is better than “no, but”. - Don’t criticise lack of nuance, add it.

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@mmay3r

7 years

If Twitter would have kept the 140 but added embedding of longer text, it would have become the largest blogging platform overnight.

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@mmay3r

6 years

The greatest sin for the highly credentialed is thinking that’s enough to guarantee success. The greatest sin for the lowly credentialed is thinking that’s enough to guarantee failure.

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7 years

So, 2017 sucked, huh?

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For long term improvement, your daily goal should be to tire yourself in as many dimensions as possible.

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@mmay3r

5 years

Software eats anything legible with sensors. We are sensorizing the world. Software is eating the world.

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@mmay3r

6 years

The internet doesn’t fracture truth, it reveals the many competing truth that always existed but were flattened by centralized broadcast technology.

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I’m sorry for agreeing, I didn’t have time to disagree.

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Advice for nearly everything: start slowly and maintain traction.

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5 years

Every tech billionaire has left the world a better place than they found it. The same cannot be said of many activists.

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Successful tech founders would have far better lives and legacies if they competed for happiness and impact instead of wealth and users/revenue.

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5 years

Education has already been revolutionized. The only thing left is credentialing.

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@mmay3r

6 years

We’ve got free, global, instant communication and all they could imagine is flying cars.

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6 years

The present only lasts a few seconds, we don't actually feel time passing. Therefore, the perception of time’s speed must be constructed by memory. I think time seems to pass faster as we age because we accumulate experiences and each day contains fewer novel/memorable ones.

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If school is more about compliance than learning, and it’s the primary filter for getting into the elite class, our elite must really be useless.

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@mmay3r

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As a society moves from scarcity to abundance, the cultural value that is most likely to be underdeveloped is restraint.

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@mmay3r

6 years

People will always find a way to sell socially unacceptable things through an acceptable format. Examples: Starbucks is fast food for the middle class. Political journalism is tabloids for the educated.

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@mmay3r

6 years

The car you drive says nothing about you. How much consideration you pay to what others think your car says about you says a lot about you.

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@mmay3r

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Many books should be read twice, and most shouldn’t be read at all.

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@mmay3r

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Throw ten people in a room for three hours and by the end they'll all have a nearly identical subconscious map of the temporary social hierarchy that was formed.

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@mmay3r

6 years

Industrial education flattens outcomes. It leaves idiots behind, pulls up the below average, pulls down the above average and stunts the intelligent. The smartest adults I know had nothing but contempt for their educations.

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Test the highly credentialed for ability to think for themselves and free thinkers for ability to follow through.

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Modernity should be defined as when our impulses went from being an asset to a liability.

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“Narcissism”: inability to hide one’s self-centeredness from others.

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@mmay3r

3 years

People are desperate for some sort of disorder, unfairness, external circumstance to explain a lack of thriving.

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@mmay3r

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It’s silly that I have an Econ major but never had to read Adam Smith, Keynes, Friedman, etc. Just their regurgitations in $200 textbooks.

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Michael

@mmay3r

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Ivy Leaguers are selected by being really good at high school, possibly the most bullshit institution in American life.

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@mmay3r

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In an age of information abundance, the only things that really need to be taught are those that are counterintuitive.

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@mmay3r

5 years

Perhaps my most impactful epiphany was that the information you consume is the building blocks for your thoughts.

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Aliens arrive on earth and declare we get to ask them one question. Some idiot yells “what’s your morning routine?”

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Most Americans are phenomenally wealthy by historical standards, but don’t notice because everyone else is wealthy too (and they mostly care about relative status).

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@mmay3r

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Good habits are personal capital. They require investment, but many pay off 1000X over a lifetime.

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@mmay3r

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Almost everyone people look up to is abnormal in some important way, yet they strive to be normal.

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@mmay3r

6 years

Scrolling is the new channel surfing.

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Twitter is television for intellectuals.

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You’ll never change someone’s mind by telling them that they aren’t allowed to think that way.

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@mmay3r

6 years

Travis Kalanick probably did more for racial equality than your favorite activist.

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"Black riders were 73 percent more likely than white riders to have a taxi trip cancelled and waited 6-15 minutes longer than white riders, all else equal. By contrast, ridehail services nearly eliminate the racial-ethnic differences in service quality"

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To-do lists: 70 IQ - pencil and paper 100 IQ - asana integration with email. Kanban board with a dozen statuses. Moving tasks to color coded blocks on calendar. 130 IQ - pencil and paper

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@mmay3r

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Ford created 8 models in its first 5 years. Once they made the model T, they produced nothing else for 18 years. Classic iteration until product/market fit followed by rapid scaling.

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@mmay3r

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@naval Socialism Social media Social workers Sociology Checks out

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@mmay3r

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Drugs I’ve seen ruin lives: alcohol, weed, over-thinking.

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@mmay3r

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Big business mistake that seems common today: optimizing something easy to measure at the expense of something hard/impossible to measure that’s more important.

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@mmay3r

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Remote work is the worst thing to happen in the careers of tall people.

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@mmay3r

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The more people identify with a group identity the easier it is to manipulate them at scale.

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@mmay3r

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If all you consume is widely replicated information, you won’t even rebel in unique ways.

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@mmay3r

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Most powerful energy in tech is dudes alone, hyper-focusing on a specific problem, muttering “fuck” under their breaths.

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@mmay3r

6 years

The most popular tweets advance consensus opinions while seeming contrarian.

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@mmay3r

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People undervalue their time because it can’t be traded. As if pricelessness were the same as valuelessness.

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Intelligence is useless without the wisdom to know which games can and can't be won with intelligence.

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