THE MOST IMPORTANT IDEA: "In each moment, consciously or unconsciously, you choose. It’s your choice. It’s your life. Your awareness can lead you or you can lead it. And that choice is with you here and now." ~ Rick Carson
MENTAL MODEL OF THE WEEK: Opportunity Costs
MOST FAVORITE PAST CONTENT: Book - Taming Your Gremlin: A Surprisingly Simple Method for Getting Out of Your Own Way by Rick Carson (My full Kindle notes)
THE MOST IMPORTANT IDEA: "From all this awareness we must select, and what we select and call consciousness is never the same as the awareness because the process of selection mutates it. We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world... When analytic thought, the knife, is applied to experience, something is always killed in the process." ~ Robert Pirsig
TOPIC OF INTEREST: Decision Calculus for Moving Back to The City
MENTAL MODEL OF THE WEEK: Catalysts
MOST FAVORITE PAST CONTENT: Book - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values by Robert Pirsig (My full Kindle notes)
THE MOST IMPORTANT IDEA: "We each have a calling. Do it or don’t do it." ~ Steven Pressfield
TOPIC OF THE WEEK: My Mental Health Reminders for Fighting Internally Generated Creative Blockage
MENTAL MODEL OF THE WEEK: Gresham’s Law
MOST FAVORITE RECENT CONTENT: Book - Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad by Austin Kleon (My full Kindle notes)
MOST FAVORITE PAST CONTENT: Book - The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield (My reduction)
THE MOST IMPORTANT IDEA: "All you have to do, if you want everything in life from everybody else, is first pay attention; listen to them; show them respect; give them meaning, satisfaction, and fulfillment. Convey to them that they matter to you. And show you love them. But you have to go first." ~ Peter Kaufman
MENTAL MODEL OF THE WEEK: Emergence
MOST FAVORITE RECENT CONTENT: Book - Good Habits, Bad Habits: The Science of Making Positive Changes That Stick by Wendy Wood (My full Kindle notes)
MOST FAVORITE RECENT CONTENT: Speech - The Multidisciplinary Approach to Thinking by Peter Kaufman
MOST FAVORITE PAST CONTENT: Book - The Principles of Product Development Flow by Donald Reinertsen (My reduction of full Kindle notes)
THE MOST IMPORTANT IDEA: "You can probably take it as a rule of thumb from now on that if people don't think you're weird, you're living badly." ~ Paul Graham
TOPIC OF INTEREST: Reflections on Q1 2021 Ritual Realization
MENTAL MODEL OF THE WEEK: Forcing Function
MOST FAVORITE PAST CONTENT: Blog Post - The Acceleration of Addictiveness by Paul Graham
THE MOST IMPORTANT IDEA: "Your life is not something that someone gives you, but something you choose yourself, and you are the one who decides how you live." ~ Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga
TOPIC OF INTEREST: My (Validated) Key Levers for Sleep Improvement
MENTAL MODEL FUNDAMENTALS: Scientific Method
MOST FAVORITE PAST CONTENT: Book - The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga
THE MOST IMPORTANT IDEA: "[A] Scientist knows that the truth is always buried somewhere in the wrinkles of nuance, and that a satisfying, clean-cut, one-sided viewpoint is almost always wrong or incomplete." ~ Tim Urban
FRIEND PLUG: Aaron Rothstein's recent writing - Covid-19 and the Erosion of Civic Trust, Death in the Young, and Little Data, Big Headlines
MENTAL MODEL OF THE WEEK: Compounding
MOST FAVORITE RECENT CONTENT: Podcast - Making Sense #241: Final Thoughts on Free Will by Sam Harris
MOST FAVORITE PAST CONTENT: Blog Post - Wait But Why: The Thinking Ladder by Tim Urban
THE MOST IMPORTANT IDEA: "The person across the table is never the problem. The unsolved issue is. So focus on the issue. This is one of the most basic tactics for avoiding emotional escalations." ~ Chris Voss
TOPIC OF INTEREST: My (Amateur) Key Levers for Sleep Improvement
MENTAL MODEL OF THE WEEK: Fermi Problem (Fermization)
MOST FAVORITE PAST CONTENT: Book - Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Chris Voss
THE MOST IMPORTANT IDEA: "Anyone can hit excellence for a day, even a week or a month. That’s easy. But a high performer is one who does it consistently for years over the course of a career." ~ Mark Verstegen
MENTAL MODEL OF THE WEEK: Multiplying by Zero
MOST FAVORITE RECENT CONTENT: Book - The Hidden Girl and Other Stories by Ken Liu
MOST FAVORITE PAST CONTENT: Book - Every Day Is Game Day: The Proven System of Elite Performance to Win All Day, Every Day by Mark Verstegen
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THE MOST IMPORTANT IDEA: "If you don't have the right thinking tools, you, and the people you seek to help, are already suffering from your easily removable ignorance." ~ Charlie Munger
TOPIC OF INTEREST: Failing Into Serendipitous Success
MENTAL MODEL OF THE WEEK: Probabilistic Thinking
MOST FAVORITE PAST CONTENT: Book - Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger by Charles T. Munger and Peter E. Kaufman
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