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This Week I Learned #63

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2019-08-12

  • Book: Skin in the Game by N.Taleb: Per the minority rule, the intolerant minority is stable. It's stable in that a small minority will influence the rest. Very much like cyanide. A drop of cyanide makes the entire pool of liquid poisonous. Some minorities are tolerant and some are not. If the minority group is intolerant, then you cannot …………………

2019-08-13

  • Learning from Peter Attia's podcast with Annie Duke (Neuroscientist/Poker champion) on decision making.

    • 1) Evaluate the wins. Its common stance to analyze times of i) bad process = good outcome i) good process = bad outcome. But what about the times of good process and good outcome? Most people write it off assuming they did all…..

    • 2) Skill vs. Luck. Luck is…………

2019-08-14

  • Reread Derek Siver's book: Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur. Couple quotes that struck me on the third reread.

    • "When you're onto something……

    • "In the end, it's about what you want to be, not…………

2019-08-15

  • "Come for the tool, stay for the network" wrote Chris Dixon (Investor @ Andressen Horowitz). Using a single-player tool……..

2019-08-16

  • Pascal's Wager: Per the French Mathematician, physicist. If God was real…….

2019-08-17

  • "…………" - Steve Blank, Entrepreneur and starter of lean startup movement.

2019-08-18

  • "…………..." - Cato the Elder, Roman soldier, senator and historian. Avoid the status-seeking game. Most times it's unsubstantial and results in more points for objection (by those who matter).