Most people's lives are determined by how they choose to cure their boredom.
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Most people's lives are determined by how they choose to cure their boredom.
Hidden Class Rules
To predict a person's behavior, study their incentives. To control a person's behavior, set their incentives. Not true for the best people.
Linear Algebra & Calculus needed for Machine Learning
I work at 8 companies.
One of them had the most beautiful code I’ve ever seen.
One of them had the highest revenue.
It wasn’t the same company.
It’s so easy to make money.
People with money have so many problems they can’t solve with money so at least help them solve the problems money can solve.
Just ask to be help accountable for some bullshit they don’t want to deal with.
And then figure out how much to charge them.
If no one knows you exist. Just be famous. Make 10,000 tweets. Write 40 blog posts.
You can do it on your phone. Everytime you talk to someone with a pain you can solve.
Solve it. Write about it. Ask for a testimonial. Ask for proof. Then post it.
Just cause you’re broke and cheap doesn’t mean there’s not someone willing to pay you for good work.
Just gotta let them know you exist. And that you can deliver.
@WatcherGuru “One of the marks of successful people is they are action oriented.
One of the marks of average people is they are talk oriented.”
– Brian Tracy
The first $100k:
Lessons From Spending Time With The Wealthy
Why You Should Care: You should care how wealthy people think because they are doing things that will benefit them in the long term. Doing things that will save them time and energy in the long run. Thinking in advance and projecting is the difference between the wealthy and the average. There are a few things throughout the article that individuals will have to work harder to obtain. Anyone reading this could take lessons from this and apply them to their situation. The idea is not to cover the typical stuff you hear on every other mediocre YouTube video. The wealthy don’t watch Netflix and they hit the gym - what you will often hear. Self-explanatory and expected - especially if you follow our blueprint or avoid lifestyle traps. Knowledge, mindset, and an approach to everyday things are the areas to which you should pay attention. It is also worth mentioning that there are different levels of wealth. Having 4 million in the bank account is nowhere near the same as having 84 million in your bank account. The abundance is different, and the approach to life is different. It is worth mentioning that there are at least three categories of wealth: 1) 1 million up to 30 million, 2) 30 million to 70 million, and 3) 70 million up. This number was much lower, but we all know how the last few years have been. The game has changed. We do not need to split it into categories and make it unnecessarily complex. What you find here applies across all categories. Throughout the read, you will see the term "wealthy" instead of "rich" or "millionaires” - except in this intro part. Why? Rich is associated with fast money and poor choices. Media has portrayed the rich as short-term and the wealthy as long-term - the reason why we are sticking with the term wealthy.
Self-Belief System: Readers who have been reading us for some time know our take on how you should spend your money and why you should surround yourself with successful individuals. Encourage yourself to do so and surround yourself with as many of them as possible. Not all are worth your time, but there are always individuals worth spending time around. The main reason? You want to pick their brains and apply their insights to your situation. By spending minimal time around them, you will notice one trait that doesn't get enough attention. The self-belief system that all wealthy possess. Not a single wealthy person out there exists who doesn’t have an internal positive self-belief system. Manifestation and self-belief systems are not the same - to make it clear before anyone mixes up those two. A positive belief system is an internal belief that the result will be positive no matter what happens. Everyone knows that is not always the case, but your quality of life increases once you start incorporating this mental model. Why would anything become a reality if you don’t trust yourself that it will? If you must take anything out of this. Take this - start working on your internal belief system.
Irrational Optimism: The way we would explain irrational optimism to someone would be to say that it is the ability to turn every outcome into a positive one. No matter what your situation. No matter where you are now. The outcome, or at least a part, will favor you. Irrational optimism goes hand in hand with a strong self-belief system. Why? Because it serves as the support system on which the internal self-belief system is built. You can't have one without supporting the other. Each year, it feels that optimism is less present and that the overall positive outlook on life is less present. You already know what you should do. Do the opposite. No matter how bad your situation is or what is happening around you. Combine positive beliefs with irrational optimism and program your future. Repeating, we are not talking about manifesting. Forget about manifestation. Start thinking about programming your future. All wealthy individuals we have met possess this ability and are showing it. Irrational optimism makes little sense until you practice it and experience firsthand results.
Health: Nutrition, recovery, fitness, and everything else that comes with it. One key takeaway from spending time with the wealthy is that they are picky about what they eat and drink. Readers from poor backgrounds might remember how eating processed food makes them feel and how eating nutrient-rich food makes them feel. We would encourage everyone reading this to compare how sharp and focused they feel when eating processed food full of sugar and proper nutrition food. Total time investment won’t take over two weeks but will tell you everything you need. If you want to operate at a high level like the wealthy do. It would be best if you had a diet in place that is full of quality macronutrients and micronutrients. Next on the list? Much of the attention goes into the recovery: paid to massages, cryotherapy, IV therapies, and year access to the sauna. You need that as long as it makes you perform better. That’s how most of the wealthy think. The same goes for fitness. Having a personal trainer and someone to guide you is normal and a well-worth investment. The takeaway is that all the wealthy realize health is more important than wealth. Those who are not set take their health for granted. Placing money above health on the list of priorities - not long-term positive. Everyone who runs their own business must have done the same at one point. This should not be practiced in your 30s or later when you begin to feel the effects of pushing too hard.
Betting On The Future: The wealthy enjoy betting on the future and future trends: politics, economy, and financial markets - a few common examples. We even heard about health trends and predictions about what will become the new normal. Topics that are relevant for everyone and affect the quality of life. Once you spend your time around those discussions - you realize why maintaining a balance between the present and the future is essential. When you know what will happen, you can prepare yourself. Prepare yourself? When prepared, you can get the most output out with minimal investment. The same reason you should listen to the advice of experts, professionals, and their bets. You are looking for innovations - follow trends and innovations that make life easier. The easier innovation makes life, the bigger the chances of your bet success. Do you want an example of what betting on the future looks like? Bet on long-term degeneracy and everything that comes with it.
No Time To Complain: We have never heard of anyone with enough money in their bank account to complain. If you think they are not complaining because of their bank account. Wrong. Money is not the reason they do not complain. It is because the mindset of the wealthy is different. If you are over twenty-five, you should know that complaining does nothing for your life or the lives of those around you. Nothing is worse than having someone close to you who does nothing but complain without trying to fix it. The wealthy avoid such individuals at all costs. No one in their social circle has time to complain, wants to complain, or is surrounded by those who complain. Those who complain slow you down. Plus, they are not pleasant to be around - losers. If you complain about something - write it down with the date next to it. Over time, you start to feel ashamed of yourself… Looking at the dates and how you reacted to the meaningless things in your life. Leave complaining to losers and those who have time for it...
#Today in 1991, 21-year-old Linus Torvalds introduces Linux in an online post.
Hans Krebs identified the citric acid cycle - also known as the Krebs cycle. The cycle is a series of reactions that convert nutrients into other molecules with a large amount of chemical energy.
Do you know why it is so important?
Harmonics define sinusoidal waves with a frequency that is an integer multiple of the fundamental frequency of the signal.
do not become a machine. there is a machine that will be a better machine than you
I have sometimes wondered whether a brain like von Neumann's does not indicate a species superior to that of man.
“Always more audacity.” — Winston Churchill
Face the work.
The thing to know about merchants of complexity is that they never go away, they merely migrate. From WS-DeathStar to microservices to premature k8s to auth services to GraphQL and beyond. There's always a new insecurity popping up to prey on.
The hole
I can’t believe this has never been done before…..
There’s a tiny, innocent-looking rodent called the grasshopper mouse who kills highly venomous arthropods like scorpions and forcipules and it howls at the moon to claim its territory
Sempé
now more than ever, your reality is directly proportional to your sheer power of will
tbh this is a banger post
“Going undercover” working a nontechnical job that you have an interest in and that you think LLMs could automate is a pretty wild and increasingly common way to get meaningful domain expertise fast