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• Bitcoin was introduced as a digital currency to the world in the paper called Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic …

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that …

“People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures,” F. M. Alexand…

Late in 1876, William Orton, president of the Western Union Telegraph Company, rejected an opportunity to purchase …

Generally, there are three main types of reasoning we employ when “thinking”: deduction, induction, and abduction.

If being a generalist was the path to mediocrity, why did the most comprehensive study of the most significant scie…

If being a generalist was the path to mediocrity, why did the most comprehensive study of the most significant scie…

The word “polymath” has existed for centuries. In fact, it was first used back in the 4th century to describe the a…

To put this into perspective, traveling **90 miles per hour is equivalent to traveling 132 feet per second.** If we…

It’s the distinction between *what you do* and what merely *happens to you*.)

people don’t care what you do, they are just going to judge you on the basis of what they can understand. People ca…

James Lovelock is best known for his Gaia hypothesis, developed with the brilliant US biologist Lynn Margulis in th…

Be curious enough to experiment: you don’t know what works until you try

According to Cicero, if you have a library and a garden, you have everything you need.)

Haiku poetry dwells on nature, usually imparting wisdom about life and existence through observations of the natura…

Open-mindedness involves being receptive to a wide variety of ideas, arguments, and information.

“Whether you’re keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it’s the same thing. What’s important is you’re havin…

The ancients were fond of an expression: Character is fate.

Y Combinator founder Paul Graham described product-market fit as when you've [made something that people want](http…

Rich is having passive income greater than your burn.)

The owner of a patent is protected against others “making, using, or selling the invention in the United States” (U…

People link productivity to hard work. However, it’s not about working harder; it’s about working smarter. With the…

The only real test of intelligence is if you get what you want out of life. — Naval Ravikant

Pessimists sound smart, optimists tend to get lucky.

A personal library is, among other things, a map of where we’ve been, a track through time that helps us understand…

You can cut the corpus callosum (the bridge between your brain hemispheres) and essentially have 2 minds that are b…

Stewart Butterfield, one of the founders of Slack used it as an internal communication tool at Tiny Speck (now, Sla…

“The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard,” declared the early 19th-century essayist…

Just because I love writing doesn’t mean I love doing it every day. A lot of this craft is still unpleasant — awful…

In the late 1700s, English chemist Joseph Priestley [made a gas](https://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/rzepa/mim/environmental/ht…

By the middle of the 1870s, telegraphy had become a truly global telecommunications system. Telegram traffic increa…

I wrote at least a thousand words a day every day from the age of twelve on. — Ray Bradbury, Zen and the Art of Wri…

Learn just because you want to. Not everything you know has to be useful. Sometimes, it should be done just for fun…

Phaedrus the Egyptian legend of Theuth, the god who invented “numbers and arithmetic and geometry and astronomy, al…

“Your professional success and quality of life directly depend on your ability to manage the information around you…

“Our life is dyed by the color of our thoughts,” he wrote.

I have found that the surest way of seeing the wondrous in something ordinary, something previously underappreciate…

“The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.”– Antoin…

A plateau functions like a screen door. It keeps out those who aren’t serious or dedicated enough. This is what sep…

The electric eel is one of several species of freshwater fish in South America that generate electricity to navigat…

Show up enough times and those same readers will happily pay. It’s that damn simple amigo.

your satisfaction is your haves divided by your wants.)

He observed living properly meant pursuing knowledge, wisdom and becoming a complete version of yourself.

Underlying its whole infrastructure was the intention to allow for collaboration, foster compassion and generate cr…

By the late 2000s, Beyoncé was already a global superstar. Few were aware that she had struggled with nerves and an…

A clay tablet preserves the words of a long narrative poem: “I took up my place in the sanctuary dwelling, / I was …

science is built upon a process that starts in hypothesizing.

measuring something gives you the information you need in order to make sure you actually achieve what you set out …

[Sharks](https://www.livescience.com/animals/fish/sharks) (opens in new tab) are egg-laying fish with the deadly ab…

“Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.” ~Horace

The Matthew Effect was first coined by sociologists Robert K. Merton and Harriet Zuckerman in 1968, who noticed tha…

Every time you write a new story, ask yourself: what’s in it for the reader?

Your second brain, on the other hand, is great at storing information. But it’s not just good at that. It’s a tool …

Passion isn’t what you earn through, it isn’t what you consider productive, it excites you when you go to work, it …

A personal library is the coolest after-effect of our reading habits)

Octopuses are brainy creatures with sophisticated smarts, and now scientists have uncovered a clue that may partly …

I can see the trophoblast, which would normally become the placenta, enveloping the embryo. And it includes the cav…

Socrates was by far one of the most important philosophers. However, he wrote no works of his own; therefore we com…

Rule number one: Reading is never an isolated act. Rule number two: Effective reading is quality over quantity. Rul…

“Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. …

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. — Stephen King.

The very first drawing of a concept for a pendulum clock was by Galileo Galilei, which sought to leverage the unifo…

Reading is very old activity, and it is at the same time the oldest reliable way of getting knowledgeable about a g…

*“The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour …

being more productive doesn’t mean getting more done. It means getting more of the right things done.

If our brains were simple enough for us to understand them, we’d be so simple that we couldn’t.

Perfectionism is a refusal to let yourself move ahead. It is a loop — an obsessive, debilitating closed system that…

Anchoring bias is a cognitive bias that causes us to rely too heavily on the first piece of information we are give…

The point of practicing is to hone your craft. To improve day by day, week by week, month by month. You don’t becom…

A problem is non-existential; a person exists.

If you think about where “specialism” came from, it essentially originated from greedy business men who were trying…

“I have a friend who’s an artist that has sometimes taken a view of which I don’t agree with very well. He’ll hold …

Ever since 1911, when British mycologist Michael Cressé Potter noticed that [brewer's yeast generated electricity](…

“Self-doubt can be an ally. This is because it serves as an indicator of aspiration. It reflects love, love of some…

Instead of piling up knowledge by reading book after book, apply that thing that you learned.

Instead of piling up knowledge by reading book after book, apply that thing that you learned.

Hand writing and hand drawing capture something that digital note-taking does not; soul.)

Biology, with its intricate systems and adaptive processes, offers a fertile ground for quantum phenomena.

one of the most beautiful aspects of The Human Experience is remembering the good memories like we sure we live mos…

If you want to be in the top 5% of money managers, you have to be willing to be in the bottom 5%, too.”)

**Functional programming** is a programming paradigm in which the primary method of computation is evaluation of fu…

the Tesla and SpaceX boss shares a nugget of pure learning gold:

You have to keep showing up, even on the tough days.

Have you heard the saying, “The first impression is the last impression”? In psychology, anchoring bias is a simila…

The books on your shelves–[if properly selected](https://ryanholiday.net/read-to-lead-how-to-digest-books-above-you…

Most writers need to get a quarter million clichés out of their systems before they hope to sell something.)

Bullet journaling was developed by Ryder Carroll, a digital designer.

Psychology lecturer John Shaw, who headed up the study, said children were supposed to sleep for between nine to 11…

Humans are visually oriented. Written language is only about 5,000 years old, and the printing press is less than 6…

Books are direct paths to enlightenment and well-being.

I love the idea of “rewilding your attention”. It puts a name on something I’ve been trying to do for a while now: …

Inversion is often at the core of great art. At any given time there is a status quo in society and the artists and…

The higher a person's position, the less likely you will hear them say “I don’t know." Not because they know, but b…

Good ideas are not conjured out of thin air, they are build out of a collection of existing parts, the composition …

This effect can literally be seen in your brain waves when you read. If a character in the book you’re reading is p…

“But how could you live and have no story to tell?” This quote from Fyodor Dostoevsky's White Nights (1848))

Memoirs are creative nonfiction. They’re about how things that happened—felt to someone.

Love letters written 4,000 years ago in Mesopotamia are remarkably similar to those written today, and although cul…

average CEO reads 52 books a year)

Sixteenth century philosopher Michel de Montaigne wrote that “Traveling through the world produces a marvelous clar…

The reality is that while AI can process and analyze data at an extraordinary speed and scale, it lacks human attri…

It has been 330 years since Matsuo Bashō established the style of short-form poetry called haiku. He was the most r…

In 1997, Apple was in dire straits. The stock was trading at a 12-year low, they were losing gobs of money, and Mic…

Brands are not products, they are symbols for what the products represent.”

“There are three kinds of book owners. The first has all the standard sets and best-sellers — unread, untouched. (T…

“The only way to learn to write is to force yourself to produce a certain number of words on a regular basis.”)

Most people think of the world as being composed of generalists, who know a little about a lot, and specialists, wh…

What's really cool is that these embeddings capture semantic relationships. This means they don't just know that "d…

Imposter syndrome, or as Dr. Pauline Rose Clance refers to it, Imposter Phenomenon, is an experience of feeling lik…

In the past, most models underwent training using the supervised method, where input features and corresponding lab…

Montaigne, who invented the essay, kept a handwritten compilation of sayings, maxims and quotations from literature…

If you don’t use the information to improve in some way, reading is nothing more than a leisure activity. It can ev…

Good writing boils down to good ideas made easily understandable.)

Octavia E. Butler says, “You don’t start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it’s good …

“In the deepest sense of the word, a friend is someone who sees more potential in you than you see in yourself, som…

“In the deepest sense of the word, a friend is someone who sees more potential in you than you see in yourself, som…

You’ve not written about it yet, and that’s the only thing that matters. Don’t be scared to write about the same id…

advice someone gave me I wanted to be a writer and they said okay writers live interesting lives the point being yo…

Satisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

In the concept of time, the future is commonly regarded as being “ahead” of us, and the past “behind.” How is that …

“Good writers have two things in common; they prefer to be understood rather than admired and they do not write for…

• When you [come up with ideas for thing to write about](https://unmistakableceo.com/how-to-consistently-come-up-wi…

Its the ‘unknowing’ of death that is most disturbing, the fact that none of us really know what happens when we or …

“It is not only the violin that shapes the violinist, we are all shaped by the tools we train ourselves to use, and…

Most people think they have to be experts before they can teach or build community, but some of the most successful…

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: **read a lot and write a lot.** — Stephen King…

Dale Carnegie famously said, “A person’s name is to him or her the sweetest and most important sound in any languag…

It’s hard to critique a text that doesn’t open itself up and invite you to participate in its dance of ideas. When …

“The minute you learn something, turn around and teach it to others. Share your reading list. Point to helpful refe…

Feynman’s scientific vision was deeply rooted in the belief that

The impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not …

“You can’t change the people around you, but you can change the people around you.” Meaning, we can’t force others …

American philosopher Brand Blanshard [would write](https://el2.convertkit-mail.com/c/wvu3vllv8cghkv759/dpheh0/aHR0c…

There’s something else the home library does for me: it reveals me to myself. For the longest time I questioned my …

On numerous occasions I’ve also succumbed, as bibliophiles are known to do, to the urge to keep everything I found.…

Murakami writes because writing is a form of expression and he is going to keep writing the same book until he capt…

Travel becomes something more than finding a different place to sit. Writing requires you to convert sights, sounds…

https://github.com/Vaibhav807/LangGra...

latin expression: Ars longa, vita brevis. Life is short, art is long

when a social enterprise shuts down, its failure also affects those populations or ecosystems that the business was…

His example is a definition of freedom from writing guide *[Writing Down the Bones](https://www.amazon.com/gp/produ…

Ever since Dutch professor and pharmacologist Mark Post unveiled the world’s first hamburger made from lab-grown be…

Philosophy gave me freedom.

“stinking thinking”, yes now we have a term for it in the English language, “the human tendency to persistently eng…

Physical intelligence refers to dynamic objects -- like soft robots -- whose behavior is governed by their structur…

Public accountability is a powerful motivator often under-utilized because we don’t like to fail in public. We feel…

Inside the brain, caffeine blocks adenosine receptors. Adenosine is a sleep-promoting chemical that is produced in …

Twitch broadcasts over 2.5 million hours of live content every day in 35 languages

It starts with an idea or a goal, then the steps you have taken to accomplish your goal, especially the bumpy ride …

[Talulah Riley](https://www.businessinsider.com/how-elon-musk-met-wife-talulah-riley-2015-5), told him that "deep i…

back casting as he calls it which is you know think of how you want to live your life the last 10 years of your lif…

It’s also very encouraging that, according to a recent report, 70% of U.S. readers between the ages of 18 and 29 sa…

Tell the stories that really matter to you in life

Artists, true artists, create what they want to create. What their artist soul wants to create. They create what br…

“No such thing as spare time, no such

Jeanette Winterson [once said](https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2012/03/13/an-interview-with-jeanette-winterso…

In American culture, entrepreneurs are like modern-day heroes. Taking great risks, entrepreneurs strive to build so…

As Parkinson’s Law goes, “work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.”

The repetition itself becomes the important thing; it’s a form of mesmerism.

Vignettes are snapshots that capture a moment in time. Unlike other structured forms like stories, they focus on em…

A great way to think about it is that your first thought is the start, not the end.

easy reading is damn hard writing

We start dying the day we are born, and the recognition of that single fact makes us live better lives.

A good offer should make a guarantee with an outcome and reverse the risk in the customer’s mind.

People I believe aren’t afraid to be alone, they are afraid to be lonely.

“It discusses how extroverts in our society are bigged up so much. If you’re anything other than an extrovert, you’…

Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter wh…

The variation of the oxytocin receptor is known as the GG genotype.)

“I begin because I don’t have the strength to think; I finish because I don’t have the courage to quit. This book i…

I’ve come to realize productivity is emotional management.

When you have a different lifestyle than others, they think you’re weird.

The message seems to be that 'books are passé, replaced by ones and zeroes, the real world replaced by a virtual on…

A binary classifier is a function which can decide whether or not an input, represented by a vector of numbers, bel…

Ram Dass expounded on the particulars of the mind. Here’s what he said:

Gemini 1.5 Flash is particularly designed for rapid inference and cost-effective deployment. This is achieved throu…

Basecamp’s founder, led the design. His co-founder, David Heinemeier Hansson, pro- grammed it (and created the well…

[Man Booker prize-shortlisted author](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/oct/11/man-booker-prize-2015-shortlist…

Other studies have shown that inadequate sleep results in decreased activity in brain regions involved in empathy a…

Every article, every note, every reflection is a chance to turn silent knowledge into living thought. What I’ve rea…

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When the world does become better, they point out, we become harsher critics of it.

The brain is an incredibly effective survival machine. One of our most successful survival techniques is our desire…

The term “book-wrapt” describes a home dominated by books and suggests a feeling of being both surrounded by and he…

They are comprised of a tiny subculture of neo-bohemian liberal arts graduates that travel the world and work -and …

The next Book revolution came in 1971 when Michael Hart invented the eBook. Hart’s innovation, like Gutenberg’s pri…

Inspiration replenishes what social media depletes

I don’t do it enough, but when I do, paging through my travel journal is like finding kernels of wisdom, unearthing…

The books we own or at least should be, a reflection of who we are, not a museum exhibit meant to impress our frien…

Its great ideas are the cornerstone of great writing.

**My Big Hang-Up in a Connected World**

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Businesses often want people with T-shaped talents out of these three alternatives. This breakdown of employee type…

The French Paradox was described in 1993 in a paper indicating that **despite having high saturated fat and cholest…

“[gonzo journalism](https://www.becomeawritertoday.com/what-is-gonzo-journalism/).” It makes no claim of objectivit…

An AI researcher and photographer on Medium, Thomas Smith, argues that, no, these are not photos. A photo, he write…

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Many people claimed to be existentialists and adopted the existentialist/public philosopher persona to be “cool” an…

*The Martian* started out life as a series of blog posts by Andy Weir and was later turned into a book)

My moment happened about forty pages into ​The Greco-Persian Wars​, where Peter Green writes, “The reappearance of …

The 13th element in the periodic table (Al), aluminum is most abundant metal in the Earth’s crust, the third most a…

In Galloway’s thesis, each of The Four appeal to a specific human organ. Google targets the brain and our thirst fo…

Poems are one-night stands in cheap motels that sell Twix in vending machines. Short stories are summer flings in r…

If you want a life more than you currently have, you must be more than you currently are