A THREAD on my favourite 40+ actionable quotes by Charlie Munger: 1/ Develop into a lifelong self-learner through voracious reading; cultivate curiosity and strive to become a little wiser every day.

A THREAD on timeless quotes by Plato: 1/ I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning.

Twitter is best experienced with an attitude of intellectual grace. "What can this person teach me?" is a much more productive question than "How is this person wrong?"

The reason I love math & physics so much is that they're the pinnacle of the pursuit of Truth.

Paraphrasing Einstein here - Philosophy without physics is blind, physics without philosophy is lame

If one explores enough breadth and depth of science, and meditate on how everything is connected to everything else, one will find God

"I think a life properly lived is just learn, learn, learn all the time." — Charlie Munger

You can become passionate about anything if you reach the furthest edges of that field. Everything looks boring on the surface.

I’ve spent the last year developing several book ideas, including: 1. First Principles of Wealth: Money, Markets, and Meaning 2. Code and Capital: How Blockchains Rewire Finance 3. The Token Investor’s Mindset: Wealth Building in the Age of AI and Blockchains 4. Beyond the

If you want to understand the headlines in 2025, stop looking at the machines for a moment. Look at the monkey mind. Why does social media divide us faster than it connects us? Because the monkey mind craves attention, outrage, and belonging to a tribe that must have an enemy.

One of the deepest lessons I’ve come to see by observing reality is this: you can build the most powerful systems in history, wire the planet with fiber and blockchains, teach machines to think, automate markets and decisions, and still watch humanity loop back into its oldest

tradfi markets vs onchain markets

Person A - works hard, builds base44 as solo founder, plays positive sum game, creates value in free market, exits for $80m Person B - gambles all savings on memecoins, loses it all mainstream media - "income inequality is rising"

Once, there was no such thing as a market you could check before bed. Trade was a season. Merchants moved goods by caravan and ship. Prices adjusted with the weather, the harvest, the tides. Markets closed because nature did. When stock exchanges emerged, they built daily

imo first principles thinking is fundamental to being contrarian and right as an investor and studying history and philosophy are the best tools to build right mental models for first principles thinking

“Investing is not supposed to be easy. Anyone who finds it easy is stupid.” — Charlie Munger There are careers you burn out from. Jobs you retire from. Sports that your body gives up on. But investing is different. It is one of the rare crafts where age is not a limitation —

Today I’m publishing my second piece - Exponential Tools, Ancient Minds: The Real Blocker of Progress musingsonreality.substack.com/p/book-2-expon… If you find it valuable, please subscribe, share with anyone who might benefit, and I’d love your feedback too

AI is the best teacher for the self-taught.