John Hoang

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https://www.gq.com/story/jerry-seinfeld-gq-hype

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Been seeing this graph a lot today. Is this even the right metric to measure if divorce rates have been high through these periods? Why is a marker of society?

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Sometimes I open the modal to cast something and my mind just goes blank even though I had a hundred thoughts just before.

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https://warpcast.com/giu/0xe099c1b2 Couldn't see this insight at first, but if I think of AI as knowledge work automation, and knowledge work is performing computation, then it makes sense that things will start to lean more towards things where the next operation isn't obvious like building trust or finding novelty.

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Random thought: Although the multiverse can be argued to have no purpose, I'm not so sure that it's the same for us. In biology, there is a tendency for things to go from no-thingness to a thing. There are also irreversible decisions. This places us in a journey, and we are the heroes of it.

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Listening to the competing narrative of Cal Newport’s new book Slow Productivity. A nice reminder in our obsession to have everything fast that sometimes slow is steady and steady is fast.

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https://x.com/paulg/status/1780926217782169996 Paul Graham says we need to fight for universities because smart people need a place to gather. 🤔

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I always thought the obsession with treating the symptom in medicine would hit a wall when you had to gulf down a bunch of pills, but this guy showed me otherwise. He consumes over a 100 pills a day.

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Listening to this podcast between Tyler Cowen and Peter Thiel and am wondering if the references they’re making common knowledge? Catacon? https://youtu.be/vfbndRTlsg4?si=vdBiZBLC6-Cq_GeD

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Starting something new If you would like to help me test this app, please reply below. I’ll be posting updates in /idealite Together, we will define our future.

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Trying something new

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Head, heart, wallet: Three questions to ask yourself if you don't know what to write about — what does your head want you to write about? what does your heart want you to write about? what does your wallet want you to write about? I need to write more. https://twitter.com/david_perell/status/1777365903815950677/

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From Story of Philosophy, it’s interesting to see the power of ideas. In Voltaire’s time, they had a problem of the church forcing everyone to follow them, and he said that materialism was the only weapon against it, though it was not perfect. Two centuries later, materialism is pervasive and now the problem.

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From the Story of Philosophy's chapter on Voltaire, "equality is at once the most natural and the most chimerical thing in the world : natural when it is limited to rights, unnatural when it attempts to level goods and powers." It's interesting to see the same argument rehashed for centuries.

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When you reach into your depths you find that you are strong not because strength is found in there, but rather because you generate the strength.

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Reading about Spinoza in The Story of Philosophy. I love the contrast he makes between eternity / immortality. “immortality is not the reward of clear thinking, it is clear thought itself, as it carries up the past into the present and reaches out into the future, so overcoming the limits and narrowness of time”

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https://www.theintrinsicperspective.com/p/the-end-of-online-history?r=ezk3i&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=audio-player Interesting blog arguing that the dialectic today is the mob versus the sovereign individual, and that the synthesis is a domestication of the group mob.

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Thinking out loud. How do you try to unearth your potential?

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