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Better Humans,
The high in Austin today was 104°.
We walked to a park next to the expo center where the Ketocon event was going on.
There was no one there.
My son asked to leave within 5 minutes.
Just brutal.
A crazy fact of the history of Earth is we are actually in a cooling period right now. There have been hotter times in the past, long before any human-created "climate change."
I'm absurdly grateful for air conditioning.
Did you know that AC in homes was not commonplace until the late 1960s?
This fueled growth in places like Arizona, Texas, and Florida.
But people still lived there.
Can you imagine being in a hot box called your house with no ability to cool it down other than some fans and open windows? 😳
I'm so friggin grateful to have control of my personal climate.
No one talks about it, but air conditioning is one of the most important technologies that have improved the lives of millions.
AC people deserve an award and more recognition. (So do the men and women that build houses and keep them safe and functioning.)
👇 Today
The one thing you can never make more of ⌛️
Funny anecdote about Steve Jobs 🖥
🖇 The game-changing app I use to manage EVERYTHING
📰 World News 🚨
The modern delusion is you can get the government to fix something. Lockdowns, mNRA gene therapy, big medical, big pharma, FDA, USDA, blablabla. The state always comes in later to take control of innovations created by entrepreneurs and inventors. When they do, they create monopolies, stifle innovation, and create inflation. (Yes, regulation creates inflation too, not just money printing.)
The more you see, hear and think about something, the more common you think it is. I remember when we were all supposed to be afraid of terrorists after 9/11.
Then people feared air and wore masks because they thought that would protect them.
Now we are supposed to be afraid of mass shootings.
What's next?
They will concoct something new just as the current fear cycle is losing the public's interest because that is what the mainstream media and US government run on: fear.
Exactly what the state does. Not because any mastermind designed it that. It’s just the result of mismatched incentives inherent in democracy itself.
You save yourself.
You and only you. No one else.
Hilarious and scary at the same time.
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💥 On this day in 1945 → First atomic bomb exploded near Alamogordo, New Mexico - The United States tested the first atomic bomb this day in 1945 near Alamogordo, New Mexico, and the following month dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan, hastening the end of World War II.
🦾 A principle for life → Time → You can always make more money, but you can never make more time. (And you can create systems and make decisions that avoid wasting time in the future.)
💬 Quote → “Fate leads the willing and drags along the reluctant.” -Seneca
🎙Podcast 💰→ Canada now requires vaccines forever - 🎧 List 🌏 Website 🎥 YouTube
🧠 Psychology → Confirmation bias: you see what you want to see and don’t see what you don’t want to see. Think hard about this. Ask yourself, “What am I not seeing here?”
🎩 Anecdote → Steve Jobs
Anyone who doubts the tenacity of Steven P. Jobs gets an earful from his head cheerleader and principal investor, billionaire H. Ross Perot.
Perot tells of a San Francisco party last year where he ran into the King of Spain. When the King asked whom else he should meet there, Perot suggested Jobs. Soon, the King engaged the entrepreneur in what Perot recalls as an "electric conversation," with Jobs gesturing madly in front of the transfixed monarch. Then the King took out his card, scribbled on the back, and handed it to Jobs. Perot hurried across the room. "What happened?" Replied a beaming Jobs: "I sold him a computer."
Steve Jobs: Can He Do It Again, Katherine M. Hafner and Richard Brandt, BusinessWeek, 24 Oct 1988
⛏ Notion is a game changer ⛏
Notion is where I manage everything. Personal, investments, Wild Foods, health stuff, study, writing, podcast.
The key I figured out is databases, board view, and keeping things simple and together as much as possible.
A productivity system is only good if you use it consistently. You can organize everything in perfect toggles and databases and forget the data is even there.
Wild Foods project management and all data.
How we organize the podcast.
📕 Book Notes 📕
Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not. (Location 104)
doing you any good? Don’t dread death or pain; dread the fear of death or pain. We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them. (Location 164)
Never depend on the admiration of others. There is no strength in it. Personal merit cannot be derived from an external source. It is not to be found in your personal associations, nor can it be found in the regard of other people. It is a fact of life that other people, even people who love you, will not necessarily agree with your ideas, understand you, or share your enthusiasms. Grow up! Who cares what other people think about you! (Location 176)
Think of your life as if it were a banquet where you would behave graciously. When dishes are passed to you, extend your hand and help yourself to a moderate portion. If a dish should pass you by, enjoy what is already on your plate. Or if the dish hasn’t been passed to you yet, patiently wait your turn. Carry over this same attitude of polite restraint and gratitude to your children, spouse, career, and finances. There is no need to yearn, envy, and grab. You will get your rightful portion when it is your time. Diogenes and Heraclitus were impeccable models of living by such principles rather than by raw impulses. Make it your quest to imitate their worthy example. (Location 250)
Other people’s views and troubles can be contagious. Don’t sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others. If you encounter a downhearted friend, a grieving parent, or a colleague who has suffered a sudden reversal of fortune, be careful not to be overcome yourself by the apparent misfortune. Remember to discriminate between events themselves and your interpretations of them. Remind yourself: “What hurts this person is not the occurrence itself, for another person might not feel oppressed by this situation at all. What is hurting this person is the response he or she has uncritically adopted.” (Location 257)
We are like actors in a play. The divine will has assigned us our roles in life without consulting us. Some of us will act in a short drama, others in a long one. We might be assigned the part of a poor person, a cripple, a distinguished celebrity or public leader, or an ordinary private citizen. Although we can’t control which roles are assigned to us, it must be our business to act our given role as best as we possibly can and to refrain (Location 267)
Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not. It is only after you have faced up to this fundamental rule and learned to distinguish between what you can and can’t control that inner tranquility and outer effectiveness become possible. (Location 104)
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