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Came across a book titled "Aphorisms" by FM on this tweet 1

Nothing has increased my programming productivity more than being able to restate hard problems as simple ones. Nobody taught me more about how to do that than the late, great Gerald M. Weinberg. https://t.co/PWXm0MItUv

and finally, in the last chapter:

"I regret selling Trader Joe's"

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I end this year with Victor Serge Diaries 1936-47. They were not written for publication, were found by accident in the 1960s, published in French and then recently translated into English. Will write more when I finish the book.
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@varunram Yes, he created something out of nothing, but that is the exception, not the rule. You should read The Big Score on the origins of California as the tech capital and SV is what is is
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@Austen Damodaran is the gold standard text on Wall Street. Took a course from him when I was at GS.

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“A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.”

When we eliminate effort, we eliminate life’s pleasures.

"The honest competitor understands that while luck affects outcomes, it doesn’t affect effort. So he learns to take his pleasure from the daily grind."

@btbytes

Stalin's liquidation of the kulaks was not entirely motivated by economic or class concerns. He was also driven to eliminate "the natural leaders" of the peasants who might have organized against communist subjugation.

"English manners were imposed on the middle class as a way of domesticating them, along with instilling in them the fear of breaking rules and violating social norms." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in Skin in the Game

RT @razibkhan: The Shape of Ancient Thought: Comparative Studies in Greek and Indian Philosophies is $1.99 on Kindle again! RECOMMEND

The Lost History of Christianity: The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia--and How It Died

pamela sargent's Ruler of the Sky: A Novel of Genghis Khan is excellent. khasr actually comes off as the most sympathetic and underrated character imo

The Origins of the Chinese Nation: Song China and the Forging of an East Asian World Order

watched first episode of age of samurai on @RichardHanania rec. SO BASED. but ppl should REALLY read TAIKO

(some era/dramatis personae)

"Therefore it is well not to be too indulgent or charitable with anyone. You may take it as a general rule that you will not lose a friend by refusing him a loan, but that you are very likely to do so by granting it" -Arthur Schopenhauer

The epilogue of my book shows how Wu’s radical transparency and strategic conferencing, besides his antipandemic measures, could serve as critical lessons for present-day Chinese policymakers. To read more, please buy my book here: @stanfordpress (7/7)

today @joinClubhouse i cited East Asia Before the West: Five Centuries of Trade and Tribute as a way to understand china's premodern influences on greater power relations. @RichardHanania may have a better rec

"the wise and ambitious manager learns to cultivate the proper, prescribed modes of appearing. He dispassionately takes stock of himself, treating himself as an object..undertakes a program to reconstruct his image, his publicly avowed attitudes and ideas"

The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous the author claims fixation on intent/motive etc. is WEIRD

@nytimes position is standard across history

Good!

Also, watched this Mandelbrot fractal edu movie that would be good for kids.

"Mandelbrots World of Fractals" also free on there

"The Bit Player", a documentary about Claude Shannon - on Amazon Prime.

Accounts of China and India written by arab sailor 900 AD. highly recommended. comparative analysis of china vs india not even totally off today.

some of the stuff is funny. obv aghast as every indian refusing to eat off each other's plates

@karatalaamalaka this is what i have: $65
Though it can charge off the "cigarette lighter" port, i use wall power. Costco fills nitrogen for free, & they are quite good about it.. but this is easier.

I purchased PROGRAM = PROOF from Amazon. I'm looking forward to reading it and going through the Agda & OCaml exercises within.

It's also available as a PDF but I like supporting authors.

@david_perell have you seen/read "Several Short Sentences About Writing"?

@razibkhan This is supposed to be a v good book

Ten years ago, I read @ramit's book, 'I Will Teach You To Be Rich'.

One key thing stuck with me:

Saving is about percentages, not dollars.

.1% negotiated off your home mortgage or car loan interest is 10x more impactful than cutting out $4 lattes.

This is from Little Drummer Girl, only book of his I read.

There's something about that crop of Cold War-era thriller writers--Le Carré, Forsyth, Clancy--that you just don't find today. The world perhaps isn't capable of such fiction anymore.

Source: The Wright Brothers

Two hard-working Ohio brothers solved flight as a side hobby. And they did it while professionals were spending 50x as much to fail.

It was largely thought impossible at the time.

Greatest side hustle of all time?

@abarrallen Fixed my wrist and elbow pain from computer work.

we're coming to the point when "truth" is the "dark matter" lurking beneath the public face....

@michael_nielsen Zen To Go by Jon Winokur.

Amazon has the first four books of Winston Churchill's history of WWII for $3 each. (The last two are still at full price)

I gave into the latest Valley book fad, and I'm reading the Netflix book.

It's surprisingly good, though it's a playbook for turning yourself into an upbeat and efficient capitalist soldier (while at work at least).

If you want to learn more about this extraordinary man, you can do no better than pick up my friend @dschwa8059’s superb biography of him.

The Last Man Who Knew Everything: The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age

"only 9 percent of Chinese said they'd trust a person of a different nationality. By contrast, 52 percent of Germans said they'd trust such a person, and the number increased to over 65 percent in the United States and Australia."

@hamsanandi Brother monochrome duplex laser printer

I have an older version which is now 8 years old. Current model even has Google/Airprint (mobile phones, which I'd like to have).

Replacement catridges are cheap and not messy like inkjet.

This is the story that got me into job-to-be-done theory nine years ago, when I first heard Bob tell it to @asymco on the Critical Path podcast.

The one about the dining room table.

It’s in the book:

@fortelabs The Heart of Yoga by T.K.V. Desikachar.

@rorysutherland David Goodhart's Head, Hand, Heart -

Just how much?

The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity

@sagar__dubey Tribit XSound Go Bluetooth Speaker is what I have

Here’s the book:

@btbytes if you want a good shop knife, these are nice in bright orange. 4 inches (so 1/2 inch longer than a swiss army knife). But no folding nonsense. But seriously, you can't go wrong with orange.

#Python programming tip: In Programming Pearls, Jon Bentley recommends improving your debugging skills by learning how medical detectives unravel thorny public health problems.

The book is engrossing and fun. I highly recommend it.

The #IEEE Information Theory Society is proud to present The Bit Player (@BitPlayerMovie), the first feature documentary about the father of the information age, #ClaudeShannon.
Now available on Amazon Prime Video:
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