David Alade

Pain is life's way of showing you're growing, learning, and beautifully, devastatingly alive. Only the dead don't feel pain.

I said the closest & healthiest relationship in the Bible was a friendship. A lot of the marriages in the Bible were actually dysfunctional.

Knowledge isn't about how many dots you have. It's about bond density: how many connections you've made between the things you know. Learning isn't about adding more dots. It's about increasing p_bond. Every time you connect two ideas, you make both of them more retrievable, more useful, more alive in your mental lattice.

"No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking" — Voltaire

I never found a way to adopt the old version of Perplexity in my investment process, but the things you can one-shot in Perplexity Computer are mind bogglingly good, and it has become a daily driver for me (for the avoidance of doubt, this is not a sponsored post). For example, I always created a guidance credibility analysis, which is a 10-year study of company guidance behavior vs. ultimate results in subsectors: which companies consistently beat/missed/held? These trends can be strong initial indicators of business momentum shifts (i.e. a beat and raise story who just held guidance in Q3 for the first time in 5 years has some information). And you see patterns here that cause you to skeptically question guidance (high or low). Perplexity Computer can one shot this with a 9-page report. Validation is critical, so I may have a different Perplexity Computer space or a Claude CoWork session go and systematically validate, then spot check & validate any key events by hand. But the ability to spin this up quickly, at scale is but one of many emerging capabilities that has me very excited about the very recent agentic capabilities.

Your brain is a browser with 4 000 tabs open and you're wondering why it's running slow. The move isn't to open another tab. The move is to close 3 990 of them.

The amount of time that we spend thinking about relationships, engaging in relationships, and desiring a relationship is a signal of a deep desire in us that God unequivocally makes clear that He alone is able to fulfil. John 4:13–14: “Jesus answered and said unto her, whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again: But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.” In Mere Christianity: “Most people, if they had really learned to look into their own hearts, would know that they do want, and want acutely, something that cannot be had in this world. There are all sorts of things in this world that offer to give it to you, but they never quite keep their promise. The longings which arise in us when we first fall in love, or first think of some foreign country, or first take up some subject that excites us, are longings which no marriage, no travel, no learning, can really satisfy. I am not now speaking of what would ordinarily be called unsuccessful marriages, or holidays, or learned careers. I am speaking of the best possible ones. There was something we grasped at, in that first moment of longing, which just fades away in the reality. I think everyone knows what I mean. The wife may be a good wife, and the hotels and scenery may have been excellent, and chemistry may be a very interesting job: but something has evaded us. If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.”

🚨: Constant complaining can train your brain to notice more negativity