15 Powerful Quotes about Psychology and Life: 1.

One of the most exciting new startups to come out of YC S24 is Wordware -- the collaborative IDE for building AI agents Meet co-founder and CEO Filip -- in just 60 seconds!

Meet Carpentopod: the walking table By day, Giliam de Carpentier works on games like Horizon and Halo But in his free time, he's built...... this What do you think -- nightmare fuel or man's (new) best friend?

You have to understand this graph if you want to build anything Kent Beck (the creator of extreme programming)'s 3X Model; 1 - Explore. Search for what works 2 - Expand. Rapid growth → unexpected problems and quick fixes 3 - Extract. Focus on quality > speed

Americans need to “get over their dictator phobia” What Peter Thiel really thinks about democracy

Democracy as the Source of Stagnation Thiel & Weinstein on Why We’re Stuck

🇺🇸 Democracy is the new religion of the West Einstein, Elon, and why we look for absolutes in everything.

🔄 How democracy spreads like a religion From the Crusades onwards, war has been used to spread religion Now, by orchestrating regime changes everywhere from Hawaii to Afghanistan, the US has installed democracies all over the world

❓ What do democracy and religion have in common? Both are hierarchical systems with a venerated figurehead and a series of intermediaries separating the figurehead from the general public But the devil’s in the detail (pun intended)...

⁉️ Ask yourself this: Why does it feel blasphemous to criticize democracy? Why does wanting to improve the system around you automatically lump you in with communism, anarchism or the alt-right? Yet a majority of people are dissatisfied with democracy

💡 Why does democracy discourage new ideas? Studies show that, regardless of the debates & speeches in the run-up to an election, “the majority of the American public is going to vote the way they're going to vote no matter what” We are completely unwilling to change our minds

🇺🇸 America Killed The Polymath Why the managerial class hates Elon Musk

🃏🎲 What did Einstein think about religion? Einstein was agnostic, raised with both Christian and Jewish teachings But when asked why he didn’t support the then-emergent theory of quantum mechanics, it was *religion* that came up in his response

Are you a specialist, a dilettante or a polymath? 🔴 Specialist = deep but narrow knowledge base 🔵 Dilettante = broad but superficial knowledge base 🟣 Polymath = best of both worlds: deep and broad knowledge base

What is “The Cult of Specialization” ? According to Waqas Ahmed, it started with folks learning to do just 1 specific thing really well in factories Then, in education, you were expected to specialize in 1 hyper-niche subject Now, we lack generalists who have historically

⚠️ The managerial class is killing the polymath But why? Institutions feel threatened by people who are likely to ask a lot of questions and point out flaws Some other ways management misunderstands polymaths:

🇺🇸 How Democrats Fall for Survivorship Bias Why doubling down on identity politics might cost them the election

💼 How does survivorship bias apply to business? Nassim Taleb berates how we celebrate the very few who succeed by, for example, dropping out of college, while ignoring everyone who failed doing the exact same thing

🇺🇸 🇨🇳 Why the West can’t stop losing to China. Empire vs the American Adhocracy

🇺🇸 US vs 🇨🇳 China: Who has more power? America is seen more positively than China (54% to 40% approval) But more say that China has had a positive influence on their economy (48% vs 42%) And 2/3 of countries are or plan to be part of China's Belt & Road Initiative