1. DiSSS: A meta learning process – learning how to learn (meta analysis). DiSSS can be applied to any skill or task. DECONSTRUCTION – What are the LEGO blocks? Breaking something big into a smaller units. Ask a lot of questions. SELECTION – Which 20% of the blocks will give me 80% of the outcomes … Read more
Many types of startup accelerators . Clean tech, bio tech, tech, natural food. Network effects Horizontal better than vertical integration Open sharing of information Case of silicon Valley vs Boston. Leaders and feeders. Balance is necessary. Feeders are all external organisations – unis, investors etc. Long term vision. Economic cycles. Optimism when things are going bad, then things … Read more
Ch. 1: Perceived voids lead to values Social idealisms are general. You will automatically find yourself living incongruously. You will go to work but will ache to be somewhere else with other people doing different things. Everything feels disconnected. That’s because everything is. You won’t try your hardest, you’ll give up, you won’t invest all your resources … Read more
Every business has 5 parts. Create something of value Create something other people want/need people willing to pay for satisfied expectations makes enough money to continue Book Rec: The new business road test: to identify promising markets 4 core human drives Drive to Acquire: Obtain physical/immaterial objects Drive to Bond: Feel Valued/Loved Drive to … Read more
In a Munk debate, a few famous authors debated whether the world was getting better or worse. This took place pre-pandemic, in 2015. One of the speakers was Malcolm Gladwell and at some during the conversation, he had this to say: So if you talk to epidemiologists they will talk about the threat of you … Read more
Wayne Jonas worked as a director of the Office of Alternative Medicine at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and as a research scientist at the World Health Organization (WHO), Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, and Samueli Institute. In How Healing Works, he provides a simple, systematic approach to healing. What does the scientific … Read more
In Technics and Civilization, Lewis Mumford divides the development of technology into three overlapping phases: eotechnic (Greek, eos meaning “dawn”), paleotechnic and neotechnic. We live in a world where wars are, if not constantly a threat looming on the horizon, a part of reality. It is just how it is. Aside from destructive instincts, how … Read more
Written by Armand M. Nicholi, The Question of God reads like a dialogue taking place between the atheist founder of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, and the renown Christian apologetic and former atheist, C.S. Lewis. Throughout the book, we learn about the perspective that both men had on God, evil, morality, love, and death. Below are the … Read more
Howard Stern described John E. Sarno as a living saint. Stern suffered from intense back pain from years, and the only man who was able to cure him was Sarno. Other celebrities and even a U.S. politician lauded his genius. So what did he discover that was so profound? Essentially, he figured out that many … Read more
Wanting by Luke Burgis is about mimetic desire. Burgis was an entrepreneur who was on course to living out the Silicon Valley myth, before he experienced a change of heart. He realized that his desire to be an entrepreneur was highly influenced by the people around him, and that his thick desires (more authentic) took … Read more