“Bastiat proves beyond all doubt that the proper function of government is to protect the lives, liberty, and property of its citizens, but not to provide for them.” “For in order to provide for some, first it must take from others, becoming the mechanism for legalized plunder.”

10. The Failure Paradox: If you want to increase your success rate, you must double your failure rate. We fear failure, yet every success is built on a mountain of failed attempts. The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried.

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Dante was quite the genius. His 4 levels of reading are amazingly instructive...

Bayes’ theorem is probably the single most important thing any rational person can learn. So many of our debates and disagreements that we shout about are because we don’t understand Bayes’ theorem or how human rationality often works. Bayes’ theorem is named after the

For millennia, jocks ran everything. The nerds finally take over. And what do they do? Develop AI that wipes out their own coding/math/analysis moats. Creating a social premium on interpersonal skills. The irony.

study calculus. seriously. not because it’s “academic” but because it rewires how you see the world. limits → teach you how things behave at the edge derivatives → measure change, motion, growth integrals → accumulation, area, total effect differential equations → how real

The Bayes Theorem is probably the most important thing any rational person can learn. Many of our debates and disagreements we shout about are due to our lack of understanding of Bayes's Theorem or how human rationality often works. The Bayes Theorem is named after Thomas Bayes

Today marks the 250th Anniversary of the Publication of The Wealth of Nations! What are your favourite quotes from this iconic book?

A powerful scene in the Odyssey happens when Odysseus finally returns to Ithaca after twenty years of war and wandering. You would expect the story to end with celebration, with the hero coming home, the family reunited, and order restored. Homer does something far stranger.

In 2019, MIT professor Patrick Winston gave a legendary 1-hour lecture called “How to Speak.” It has 18M+ views for a reason. His frameworks: • Your ideas are like your children • The 5-minute rule for job talks • Why jokes fail at the start 15 lessons on communication:

“A tax is a fine for doing well. A fine is a tax for doing wrong.” — Mark Twain

FREE math book. "Odds & Ends: Introducing Probability & Decision with a Visual Emphasis," by Weisberg. For intro philosophy courses on probability and inductive logic. Almost no formal background is presumed, only very simple high school algebra. Topics: Monty Hall Problem,

Você alavanca 10x achando que vai ficar rico mais rápido. Matematicamente, está fazendo o oposto. Em 1956, um engenheiro da Bell Labs chamado John Kelly Jr. resolveu um problema que ninguém tinha formalizado: qual é o tamanho ÓTIMO de uma aposta? A resposta mudou cassinos,

This 2 hour Harvard interview with Lee Kuan Yew, the man who turned Singapore from a tiny island into one of the richest nations on Earth, will teach you more about leadership, discipline, and nation-building than most business books ever will.

“Books only have two smells. The smell of a new book, which is good, and the smell of an old book, which is even better.” -Ray Bradbury- #SundayVibes

Nassim Taleb explaining the math behind every trader who profits from fear The crowd overpays for tail risk that almost never resolves. The other side of that overpayment is where the money is. The post above is that exact trade running on Polymarket - selling No on extreme BTC

A professor at MIT spent his life studying uncertainty. Near the end, he compressed everything into a single one-hour lecture. No buzzwords. No heavy theory. Just a clear explanation of how prediction really works. Not long after, he was gone. This is that talk. The idea at