• What’s America like locally? (Not too bad)
• A shift toward empirical economics
• We need more people - we should aim for the biggest population we can support, even if that means average happiness goes down.
• Letters to Sons
• Popularity should not be the only metric we use to measure value
• Improve your SQL
• Jerks buying up land
• Hedge funds tracking private jets to find the next mega deal.
• Every decision at an early stage forms the ethical trajectory of a company due to precedent.
• Elizabeth Gilbert quotes
• Depending on the person, late specialization can be a key to success.
• Look at things from the perspective of the farmer
• What’s the value of darwinism in the workplace? - “The relief of an easier life can inspire new biological forms just as powerfully as the threat of death.”
• Jim Mattis - “A wise leader must deal with reality and state what he intends, and what level of commitment he is willing to invest in achieving that end. He then has to trust that his subordinates know how to carry that out. Wise leadership requires collaboration; otherwise, it will lead to failure.”
• Spotify migration to Google Cloud Platform
• John Hopkins Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research
• I was Caroline Calloway
• Long walk place ideas: Japan, Madeira
• Profile of Honnold