You Don’t Have To Be Technical as a Product Manager (But You Probably Should Know These 10 Terms Anyway):

Cybertruck will be waterproof enough to serve briefly as a boat, so it can cross rivers, lakes & even seas that aren’t too choppy

If you always tell the truth, you won’t have to rehearse what you’re going to say.

The lifespans of some of the most well-known people of the past 600 years

You can admire Elon Musk and Steve Jobs while knowing that you don’t need to be like them at all.

Pillars by NASA Webb Telescope. The longest "finger" is 4 light years long. If you could fly an airplane inside of it, it would take you 4.5 million years to get from the knuckle to the fingertip.

If we live to 1,000 in the future, people will see a 90-year-old being an asshole and say "be easy on him—he's still a baby, coping with ego and tribalism and other first-century silliness." Today, we live in a world made up entirely of first-century children. Be compassionate.

Wow that was amazing, SpaceX #FalconHeavy

On the other hand, if you live by someone else's values instead of your own, you'll end up losing the respect of the people you respect and winning over the wrong people.

A few old fashioned things I still believe: You can tell everything you need to know about a person by observing (1) how they treat service workers and (2) whether they put their shopping cart back. (read on)

2) THINK BIG. Read about the universe. Nothing makes hatred seem more ridiculous than internalizing how vast time and space are. Doing so makes me want to turn to anyone who will listen and hug them and say, “We both exist! On the same tiny planet at the same exact time! Hi!”

Once you die you no longer experience the passage of time, so it’s as if eternity passes in an instant. As far as you’re concerned, the moment you die the universe reaches its final heat death state. So make the very most of this little window of consciousness—it’s all there is!

In other words, while it’s a worthy goal to help make the world a better place, the ego’s particular concern about legacy makes no rational sense. The window of time when there’s anyone to remember you or your legacy passes in a split second for you.

Daytime on a planet with no atmosphere. Bright sunny day, black sky.

Now that my videos are not limited to 2:20, I will endeavor to present more detail and context in these video postings. In ~520 video postings, the 2:20 cut too much. This changes today—unless “something” happens. This is professor Jacob Bronowski and this video is important.

It took 300,000 years to get to 1 billion but only 218 years to go from 1 to 8.

When stars die, most leave behind a beautiful piece of art called a planetary nebula. They last a few thousand years and then fade. Our sun will likely sign off with its own art piece in 5 billion years. These are planetary nebulae captured by Hubble.

Nothing will make you more productive than owning your time. Nothing will make you less productive than selling it.

30. Normalize being weird. "Weirdness is what sets us apart, gets us hired. Be your unapologetically weird self. In fact, being weird may even find you the ultimate happiness" —Chris Sacca

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