At 17, Quentin Tarantino moved to LA with ambitions of being a filmmaker. He got a job at a video store, Video Archives, and, he said, “I got caught up in the little life there...and for a few years, it put my ambitions to sleep. Because I was happy enough.” Then one night,

Your potential, the absolute best you’re capable of—that’s the metric to measure yourself against. Your standards are. Winning is not enough. People can get lucky and win. People can be assholes and win. Anyone can win. But not everyone is the best possible version of themselves.

"If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself." — Hermann Hesse

Avoid the ‘Mediocrity trap’: when things are going good - maybe even too good - don’t get comfy. This is the point at which one should start working even harder. Otherwise, one will be caught in the trap. Getting out isn’t easy but it’s worth it - always.

I asked Grok... x.com/i/grok/share/i…

Danke für die differenzierte Betrachtung Julius Böhm NIUS - AKWs sind nicht so schlecht wie gedacht - Wind und Sonne sind nicht so gut wie gedacht - Waurm nicht einfach beides nutzen? - Grundlast mit AKWs - Sonnen- und Windstunden sorgen für zusätzliche Einspeißung

Grok is awesome (well, AI in general) grok.com/share/bGVnYWN5…

Wenn Du folgendes überstanden hast: - Bitcoin-Crash von 69k$ auf 15k$ - Kryptowinter - Terra Luna-Crash - Celsius- & Voyager-Pleiten - FTX-Pleite - Binance Bank-Run - CZ-Inhaftierung - SEC-Klagen gegen alle - Eiskalte Kryptosommer - Deutschland verkauft 50.000 BTC -

I shared this note with the Washington Post team this morning: I’m writing to let you know about a change coming to our opinion pages. We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets. We’ll cover other topics too

Physicists or scientists in general should be given more credit. Few young people are aware of the great achievements made by guys like Schrödinger.

What an achievement! This is what I would show a friend if I was asked what "Actually helping people" means.

The Best Film of 2023

20 Zitate von Charlie Munger (1924 - 2023) (1) „Die große Kunst im Leben besteht darin, zu wissen, was man ignorieren sollte.“ (2) „Man wird nicht reich, indem man Dinge kauft, die im Wert sinken.“ (3) „Wenn du nicht bereit bist, mit Gleichmut auf einen Marktrückgang von 50 %

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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. -- Carl Sagan

Galileo Galilei on the language of math ✍️

A brief history of Quantum computers 👇 1905: Albert Einstein explains the photoelectric effect and suggests that light consists of quantum particles or photons 1924: Max Born uses the term quantum mechanics for the first time 1925: Werner Heisenberg, Max Born, and Pascual