Favorite book I've read this year: The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu, translated by Ken Liu. amazon.com/Three-Body-Pro… Also honorable mention for Ken Liu's short story Paper Menagerie io9.gizmodo.com/5958919/read-k… #BookLoversDay

"It's not the technology that's scary, it's what it does to the relations between people ... that's scary." 1974 -Robert M. Pirsig Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Life is so precarious. Don't sweat the small things. In fact, be grateful that they are small.

Grace Hopper visualizes a nanosecond: youtube.com/watch?v=JEpsKn…

If you're caught up with the trivialities of day-to-day life, watch this: youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhv…

Yet another great piece by Tim Urban in his new series. This was my favorite post so far - a fascinating take on how we form beliefs waitbutwhy.com/2019/09/thinki…

"While we are postponing, life speeds by." - Seneca

"If our vision is narrowed by a preconceived theory as to what will happen, we are almost certain to misinterpret the facts and to misjudge the issue." Great article from 1890, The Method of Multiple Working Hypotheses. HT Peter Attia arti.vub.ac.be/cursus/2005-20…

“Who knows doesn’t talk. Who talks doesn’t know.” One of my favorite lines in the Tao Te Ching translation by Ursula K. Le Guin

"An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest." – Benjamin Franklin

"The greatest tragedy of mankind comes from the inability of people to have thoughtful disagreement to find out what’s true." – Ray Dalio

Remembering Kobe Bryant.

MVP Baseball 2005 soundtrack is the GOAT

Steps I had to take to make a payment via cashier’s checks this morning: - drive to bank - $8 fee per check - deliver physical checks Crypto is coming for TradFi’s lunch.

There are trillions of cells in your body right now just obeying the laws of physics and keeping you alive. Pretty crazy

“Zen is spiritual ophthalmology.” – Alan Watts

See the world anew each moment.

Sorry L.A. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Looks like Mamba's flying with the Eagles. (via Philadelphia Eagles)

"We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak" – Epictetus