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Tom Morgan

1 month

It took me 3 months to put 10 years of research on curiosity into a 20min presentation... ...So when @GrahamDuncanNYC challenged me to compress it down to 5min for the @SohnConf yesterday, I obviously went insane. Here it is.

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Tom Morgan

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2 years

A wise man once said to me. “You have a nail in your foot. You can practice mindfulness about the nail. Go to therapy and talk how the nail feels bad. Gratitude journal about how other people have more nails in their feet. Or you can take the nail out of your foot.”

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Tom Morgan

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1 year

Quote that lives rent-free in my head: “Good writing makes the reader feel smart, not the writer.”

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Tom Morgan

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10 months

Last weekend's essay, "How To Do Great Work" by @paulg , is an absolute classic. It's at least a 60min read, but worth it. Here are 11 insights that really resonated.

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Tom Morgan

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1 year

My 4yo just licked a NY subway pole. I’ll offer hour-by-hour updates of what’s happening next.

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Tom Morgan

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2 years

I've done some nerdy stuff, but this might be the peak. 1/3 Here's the best graphic of the Hero's Journey I've seen, [via Thea Cooke]....

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Tom Morgan

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8 months

Imagine living this moment, even once.

non aesthetic things

@PicturesFoIder

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Psy introduces himself

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2 years

“The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.”- Jung. Can’t stop thinking about this quote.

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1 year

Simple but powerful sentiment from Buffett today: write your obituary, then work backwards to live it.

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6 months

The greatest moment will be when we can all freely admit nobody has finished Thinking Fast and Slow.

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So... much of Behavioral Economics seems to be coming crashing down. Anyone else feeling a great sense of relief?

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2 years

If you’re trying to understand human behaviour, a legend that’s survived 300,000 years is probably more valuable than a “study” from last year that won’t replicate.

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2 years

Ozark and Breaking Bad both tell the tragedy of compounding bad moral choices. But Walt’s complex motivations were always masterfully explained. I can’t work out what anyone in Ozark really wants?

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Tom Morgan

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1 year

"Libertarians are like house cats: absolutely convinced of their fierce independence while utterly dependent on a system they don't appreciate or understand."

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Tom Morgan

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3 years

This was maybe the most difficult thing I’ve ever tried to write. And it wasn’t until I was over a hundred hours into it that I realized what it was actually about: Why understanding the world matters and how it can alter the direction of our lives. 1/5

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2 years

“A wealthy man is one who earns $100 a year more than his wife's sister's husband.”- H. L. Mencken

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2 months

I was today years old when I learned if you hold down the space bar on your phone it becomes a track pad for your cursor. Did everyone else know this?!

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2 years

@wolfejosh Bonkers stat from Vaclav Smil: “In 2020, nearly 4 billion people would not have been alive without synthetic ammonia…. the Haber-Bosch synthesis of ammonia [is] perhaps the most momentous technical advance in history.”

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Tom Morgan

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11 months

@ESPNFC “Drinkwater plays in the middle and Kante either side.”

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3 months

Big day for me. Grateful to the country that gave me so many gifts, especially a family I love more than anything. Plus, after they made me wait for 4hrs in a room with no phone I have achieved enlightenment.

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Tom Morgan

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1 year

This year I spent about 2,000 hours exploring a single topic: "The pursuit of wisdom." "Wisdom" seems tightly correlated with both happiness and success. Here are 18 articles on ideas and tools I found interesting and useful. 👇

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Tom Morgan

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1 year

“Finance is mostly alphas discovering they are beta.”

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Tom Morgan

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6 months

The best thing about Lisbon so far has been the vibrant street art and warmth of the locals.

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Tom Morgan

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3 months

Great word I learned yesterday: "Pronoia": the opposite of paranoia. The world is not conspiring against you, but in favour of you.

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Tom Morgan

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1 year

Whoever said money can’t buy happiness, hadn’t attempted a long-haul economy flight with 2 children under 4.

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Tom Morgan

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2 years

Why do Mediterranean people live so long? Total mystery.

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Tom Morgan

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1 month

“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.”- Carl Jung

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Tom Morgan

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2 years

@tferriss Thank god for BJJ then.

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1 year

Before I was a dad, I was roughly aware of what it would feel like to love your kids. But I was completely unprepared for what it feels like to be loved BY them.

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Tom Morgan

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8 months

My 2yo is now into her third day of trying to sneak into her big brother's kindergarten class.

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2 months

The people I see living the best lives are central nodes in networks rather than at the top of a hierarchical pyramid.

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2 years

Bonkers chart via @NeckarValue on long-term track records.

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2 years

Vaclav Smil's new book was published this week. It's an incredibly timely look at the physical foundations of the modern world.

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Tom Morgan

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2 years

Setting off on a long walk. Without thinking too deeply about it, what’s the most beautiful song you know? Please post a link if you have time.

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1 year

Something incredible is happening, and I'm only just starting to fully realise what it is. It's worth paying attention to.

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1 year

I spent the formative years of my career on a trading floor during the subprime crisis. I learned 6 hard lessons that I still believe are true today.

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Tom Morgan

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2 years

“All behavior makes sense with enough information.” ~ @morganhousel ’s brother in law.

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11 months

@rhunterh If you can put it on a 2yo on a long haul flight I don’t care if it’s $20,000 I will buy it.

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Tom Morgan

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2 years

Happy New Year all. The sickly cliche about kids helping you see the world through fresh eyes is also completely true.

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Tom Morgan

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7 days

Lewis had a lot of bangers.

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Tom Morgan

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7 months

Compelling argument to be made that Mr Brightside is the best song of this century.

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Metal drummer Dick Verbeuren hears “Mr. Brightside” for the first time (but without the drums). After one listen-through, he writes down the song’s structure by counting the bars and naming the parts. Then crushes his own great version. Very cool to see his creative process.

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Tom Morgan

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2 years

Today I met a man whose childhood story was so achingly sad I was crying in less than 10 minutes. He’s spent his life trying to be the best possible parent to provide his kids what he never had. He gave me 2 pieces of advice.

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Tom Morgan

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21 days

H/t @alixpasquet

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Tom Morgan

@tomowenmorgan

10 months

2. "Four steps to do great work: choose a field, learn enough to get to the frontier, notice gaps, explore promising ones. This is how practically everyone who's done great work has done it, from painters to physicists."

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Tom Morgan

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11 months

I just tried these 36 questions with my wife on date night. Many were surprisingly intimate and revealing, even after 12yrs together.

To Fall in Love With Anyone, Do This (Published 2015)

What happens if you decide that falling in love is not something that happens to you, but something that you do?

www.nytimes.com

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Tom Morgan

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1 year

@waitbutwhy

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Tom Morgan

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1 year

One of the most underrated forms of courage is quitting the wrong job quickly.

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Tom Morgan

@tomowenmorgan

2 years

My Twitter experience in the 24hrs since I muted the word “vaccine.”

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1 year

We are currently in the middle of one of the most consequential financial events in human history. And it seems like people REALLY don’t want to talk about it.

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Tom Morgan

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4 months

@netcapgirl I am jealous of anyone watching it for the first time. You also realise: 1) how much narrative structure he took from Jung and Campbell and why 2) Everything he's done since that isn't in that same structure is meh.

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Tom Morgan

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2 years

I think about this PTJ quote about once a month.

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2 years

If you find the same ideas across evolution, business, investing, philosophy, myth, or physics, there’s likely something useful in them. Here are a few core insights that seem to recur repeatedly. Hopefully this is a fun rabbit hole generator.

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Tom Morgan

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2 years

What’s a wildly entertaining movie you don’t think most people have seen? (Recommendations last time I asked this were AWESOME).

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Tom Morgan

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8 months

I spent a long time between careers. It was not a fun time and I was often in a very bad way. Years later I remember EVERY. SINGLE. PERSON. that took a meeting or coffee with me. If someone reaches out, please try to make time for them!

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Tom Morgan

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7 months

Getting a shoutout from my mega talented nephew Fred at Forest Hills tonight, for my fave song of his. Felt a 1,000 feet tall.

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Tom Morgan

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3 months

There's one extraordinary idea that holds the potential to meaningfully change the world. I’ve been exploring it for nearly 10 years. I've spent the last few months compressing that research into a 20 minute presentation. Here it is:

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3 months

There's one extraordinary idea that holds the potential to meaningfully change the world. I’ve been exploring it for nearly 10 years. I've spent the last few months compressing that research into a 20 minute presentation. Here it is:

VIDEO: The Mystery of Curiosity – Sapient Capital

Compressing a decade's work into 20 minutes.

sapientcapital.com

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Tom Morgan

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2 years

How many podcast episodes have you listened to that could change the way you live your whole life? Today's @InvestLikeBest with @patrick_oshag and @kenneth0stanley could be one. 👇

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Tom Morgan

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2 years

The number of times someone mentions their college is directly correlated to the probability that they peaked in college.

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Tom Morgan

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2 years

Eight of my favourite ever podcast episodes. I'd be SUPER grateful if you added your own with a link below. 👇

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Tom Morgan

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2 years

Over the years, I’ve been lucky to meet some of the most interesting minds in business and investing. So I asked them a single question: “If you could tell a sophisticated finance audience one thing, what would it be?”

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Tom Morgan

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10 months

1. "Curiosity is the best guide. Your curiosity never lies, and it knows more than you do about what's worth paying attention to."

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Tom Morgan

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8 months

"What Nobody Tells You" Why can’t we talk about one of the most common paths to growth and flourishing?

What Nobody Tells You – Sapient Capital

The Unspoken Truth About Growth. [11 minute read/ 8 minute listen] Audio version available here. “What is to give light must endure burning.” -Victor Frankl The Silent Scream A recent working paper...

sapientcapital.com

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Tom Morgan

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3 months

Back in 2010 @paulg wrote an essay about the "acceleration of addictiveness." This chart via @tedgioia nails it in a single picture (h/t @kylascan )

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Tom Morgan

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3 years

The gradual ego death of fatherhood. Happy Halloween friends!

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2 years

1) say to your kid “I was just bragging to X about how well you do Y.” Praises them indirectly and also shows how much you think about them and are proud about them.

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2 years

What sounds incredibly intelligent but is actually totally wrong?

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3 years

“If you want to see who a man really is, give him a mask.”

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Tom Morgan

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1 year

I’ve had more than one martini. It’s my birthday. And I’d like you all to know that you’re awesome and I love you.

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4 months

@netcapgirl (Spoilers) A Hero's Journey structure with a lot of mythological resonance. EG: - Rust starts determinist & nihilist - In the heart of the labyrinth he confronts the very worst of man's nature- the minotaur/yellow king - Death and rebirth -Emerges hopeful and optimistic

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Tom Morgan

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2 years

Wife’s away on business. Baby has Covid. 3yo has croup. I have a knee injury. Hoping to make it to noon without crying.

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2 months

Some personal news: Next week is my last at Sapient Capital. I owe them so, so much and we part on the very best of terms. But it's time for me to really lean in to where I see the world going. More to come.

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Tom Morgan

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10 months

5. "The three most powerful motives are curiosity, delight, and the desire to do something impressive. Sometimes they converge, and that combination is the most powerful of all."

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Tom Morgan

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1 year

“Never in the history of man was lying been so well rewarded than in America over the past decade. The true bubble wasn’t stocks or even cryptocurrencies; it was deception. And it appears to have been in everything at once.”~ @Peter_Atwater

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Tom Morgan

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9 months

Finally got to read "Behind The Curtains of Buffett's Life with Alice Schroeder" by @NeckarValue . MAKE TIME FOR IT TODAY. In the oceans of ink spilled on the icon, Frederik unearths the human, helped by Schroeder's 2,000 hours of interviews. Some highlights:

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Tom Morgan

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1 year

The opposite of wisdom isn’t ignorance, it’s ANXIETY. You have no idea what you should pay attention to.

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“If you want a beautiful life, you have to make beautiful choices.”- Epictetus

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“As you go the way of life, You will see a great chasm. Jump. It is not as wide as you think.” - Joseph Campbell

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2 months

Idea I’m pondering: life is a series of deaths and rebirths. If you avoid too many little ones, you’ll get hit with a big one.

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Tom Morgan

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2 years

2) when you identify their talent say “wow it’s amazing how well you can do X, how can you use it to help others?”

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Tom Morgan

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2 years

@jposhaughnessy @paulg Evergreen.

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3 years

You can only eat in one restaurant chain (minimum of 5 units) every day for the rest of your life. All three meals. Which and why?

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8 months

Got my blue in BJJ today. Not ashamed to admit it’s a huge deal for me. Best 2yrs of my life. - guaranteed euphoria EVERY time - strength, flexibility and cardio - mastery and community. Took me longer than most, prob 150hrs training and 150 fighting. Try it!

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3. "Curiosity is the key to all four steps in doing great work: it will choose the field for you, get you to the frontier, cause you to notice the gaps in it, and drive you to explore them. The whole process is a kind of dance with curiosity."

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1 month

First baseball game with the boy. “Daddy why is nothing happing?” Don’t have the heart to tell him…

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5 months

"The Emperor is Naked" For the last few years I’ve been writing about how a collective “phase shift” might suddenly change our society. This is a story of how it has happened in the past, and will happen again. (Click the pic)

The Emperor is Naked. – Sapient Capital

How the future will happen [10 minute listen, audio here]. For the last few years I’ve been writing about how a collective “phase shift” might suddenly change our society. This is a story of how it...

sapientcapital.com

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7. "There's a kind of undirected thinking you do when walking or taking a shower or lying in bed that can be very powerful. By letting your mind wander a little, you'll often solve problems you were unable to solve by frontal attack."

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"Not drinking will add ten years to your life. The problem is, those years come at the end."

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In the current so back moment, alcohol could not be less back

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2 months

One of the most challenging things for me to confront over the last year has been the strength of the evidence in favour of reincarnation. For example, read this and let me know what you think.

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1 year

This is a SUPERB read. "My generic career advice for young people.. you should aim to work on something that no one has a word for... When you are ahead of language, that means you are in a spot where it is more likely you are working on things that only you can do."

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦

@Noahpinion

1 year

My interview with @kevin2kelly is out!

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1 year

There’s a new worldview emerging that’s returning magic and meaning to our lives. It isn’t mainstream yet. But I think it’s going to be. This is my attempt to explore it.

What’s the Point?

Why I do what I do.

whatsimportant.substack.com

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2 years

“At The Tipping Point” - my first paper in several years. How can we flourish in an era of immense transition?

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10 months

4. "The work you choose needs to have three qualities: it has to be something you have a natural aptitude for, that you have a deep interest in, and that offers scope to do great work."

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“The best reading strategy I’ve come across is the idea of a wide funnel and tight filter. Be willing to read anything that looks even a little interesting, but abandon it quickly and without mercy if it’s not working for you.”

Paying Attention

Sherlock Holmes says in the book, The Study of Scarlet…

collabfund.com

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2 years

“If I had to choose just one role model from all of the remarkable investors I’ve interviewed over the last quarter of a century, it would be him.” - @williamgreen72 on Arnold Van Den Berg. His interview this week is fantastic and worth a thread.

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1 year

When you spend 2 months writing a single article and instead you get 1,000 likes for a tweet the same day about your kid licking a subway pole.

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1 year

The wildest stats in wealth: 7 of my favourites, some well-known, others less so.

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1 year

I just got given my first fleece vest. This is a completely serious question: why would you wear one? It’s not as good indoors as a sweater or outdoors as a coat?

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10. "So try asking yourself: if you were going to take a break from "serious" work to work on something just because it would be really interesting, what would you do? The answer is probably more important than it seems."

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Wait until the Huberman/Attia crowd find out that "religiosity" is robustly associated with wellbeing and longevity. Perhaps less about dogmatic religion, more that CONNECTION is central to everything good.

Religiosity, Well-Being and ‘Slowing Down’ Ageing Damage: A Literature Review

Telomere length (TL) represents an important marker of cellular aging. Its shortening affects human health and longevity by inducing senescence, apoptosis, and oncogenesis. Advanced ageing and...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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