We say “peace of mind” but really what we want is peace from mind.

Why Study Philosophy? 'To Challenge Your Own Point of View', by Hope Reese theatlantic.com/education/arch…

Phrases that move conversations from less valuable to more valuable: "I think you're probably right. Tell me more." "I'm sorry. I appreciate you pointing that out. I didn't see it before." "Where do we go from here? What's the next step?" "How can I help?" Any others?

Our kids will view email the way we view the postal service.

The rarest (and most valuable) thing on this planet: a clear mind.

More Naval wisdom

(1/3) Watching Gwen (Chen) Shapira(Apache Kafka committer and PMC member, and engineering manager Confluent) awesome #KafkaSummit2020 keynote (broadcasted yesterday)! youtube.com/watch?v=lChAV7… The #ApacheKafka Tiered Storage improvement proposal (KIP-405) is very exciting!

Alternative Forms of Wealth: collaborativefund.com/blog/alternati…

We are the champions !! Congrats Russia!

A weird thing is the economic outlook has probably never been more uncertain, but whatever happens will look obvious. "Of course we figured this out and things went back to normal." "Of course this destroyed a quarter of all businesses and took years to recover from."

A huge portion of engineering is communication, and most of communication is empathy. The best engineers are deeply empathetic people.

Your first thought is often a common one. It's only by sticking with something long enough to let your brain make connections that you come up with uncommon ideas. The most useful insights come after thinking about a topic for a long period of time.

"Here's my theory about company valuation creation: The faster you build it, that is the half life. It will get destroyed in the same amount of time." Chamath Palihapitiya on slow compounding: youtube.com/watch?v=XnleEV…

All the heavy lifting is done as part of the core changes. We will open source the plugin implementations once the core changes are merged into Apache Kafka.

Excited to share a key milestone on our journey to replace ZooKeeper with a built-in Kafka Raft (KRaft) metadata quorum. Impressive effort by the Apache Kafka community! confluent.io/blog/kafka-wit…

There Is No Settled Mathematics nav.al/settled

"The reason you want diverse people in the room is because different people bring different basic assumptions about how the world works, they construct different mental models of how the world works, and they’re going to see different parts of a problem." fs.blog/knowledge-proj…

Should be taught to all at a young age

Congratulations to Gukesh D for becoming the youngest challenger. The WACA_Chess family is so proud of what you have done . I’m personally very proud of how you played and handled tough situations. Enjoy the moment

Congratulations! It's a proud moment for chess, a proud moment for India, a proud moment for WACA, and for me, a very personal moment of pride. Ding played a very exciting match and showed the champion he is. International Chess Federation WACA_Chess