Genes are the ultimate spaghetti code. x.com/QuantaMagazine/status/…
3 Jun 2018
The effects of genes are so intertwined, it’s almost impossible to delete more than one without hurting a cell’s fitness in unforeseen ways.
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26 May 2018
FEYNMAN learning strategy in THREE points:
1. Continually ask "Why?"
2. When you learn something, learn it to where you can explain it to a child.
3. Instead of arbitrarily memorizing things, look for the explanation that makes it obvious.
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26 May 2018
We have a piece about another idea, Quadratic Voting, in bees: spectator.co.uk/2015/05/huma…
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16 May 2018
People think they need more knowledge when in reality they need to implement the knowledge they already possess.
Because active implementation of knowledge requires real work, they procrastinate by reading more stuff while thinking that they are doing something productive.
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12 May 2018
I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.
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10 May 2018
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
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8 May 2018
"A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself."
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We prefer to see “winners” as “naturally talented” rather than “hard working.” Because if it were reversed, what would that imply about us? x.com/degenrolf/status/98482…
13 Apr 2018
People prefer successful individuals whose achievements are based on talent (“naturals”), but hold ordinary persons dearer if their abilities stem from effort ("strivers"). sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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12 Apr 2018
when turkey 🇹🇷 decided that wikipedia was a bad idea, people put it entirely on ipfs and kept using it. (wow. cc @DemocracyEarth)
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2 Dec 2016
I’m often asked how I read so much and how I choose books. So, my I’ll try my first tweet storm... x.com/charliebilello/status/…
2 Dec 2016
love the book club. would be interested to hear how u chose the 82 books, how you take notes/retain lessons, any that you...
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14 Mar 2018
Updated definition of governance:
The process of establishing, maintaining and revoking the legitimacy of decisions and decision making processes, norms, and principles
Thanks crypto governance Twitter!
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15 Feb 2018
every work day is part defense, part offense.
responding to needs (email, errands) is defense. articulating new ideas (code, prose) offense.
a good day of work isn't just getting things done, it's minimizing defense to play a little more offense.
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25 Feb 2018
After much experience and experimentation, I definitely believe that one cannot teach by criticizing and pointing out faults. One can only teach by encouraging, inspiring, and showing what to improve.
Positivity is not sugar-coating, it is fundamental to the way we learn.
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The idea that we usually need authorities to guide and govern. Evolution and capitalism create spontaneous order. Markets and blockchains enforce rules without rulers. x.com/farnamstreet/status/96…
18 Feb 2018
What’s an example of someone using a flawed widely believed mental model (understanding of the world) with terrible consequences.
(E.g. our belief the world was flat {flawed model of reality} slowed human progress by preventing trade and exploration).
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9 Feb 2018
In visual terms: a musical pattern evokes an emotion/thought not because you've heard it before and were conditioned to associate it with the emotion (that would be pattern recognition, not abstraction), but because you process it as having the same *shape* as the emotion/thought
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