Mark S A Smith

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"My definition of wisdom is knowing the long-term consequences of your actions." @naval

Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.

You are what you read!

As night length increases in autumn, chlorophyll production slows down until all is destroyed. The carotenoids and anthocyanin that are present in the leaf are then unmasked and show their amazing colors.

“The purpose of fear is to raise your awareness, not to stop your progress.” - Steve Maraboli

“You have to die a few times before you can really live.” ~ Charles Bukowski

A good rule of thumb: if a decision is not permanent, it’s better to move too fast. If a decision is permanent, it’s better to move too slow.

Less than a week since OpenAI started rolling out ChatGPT vision. And people have been busy executing god-like tasks. 35 truly mind-boggling examples: (29th is my favorite)

You cannot get educated by this self-propagating system in which people study to pass exams, and teach others to pass exams, but nobody knows anything. You learn something by doing it yourself, by asking questions, by thinking, and by experimenting.

"You don’t need mentors, you need action." @naval

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Trust people to be people, and you'll never be disappointed. Trust them to live up to an ideal, and you'll often be heartbroken.

9/28: Ask A Stupid [Tech] Question Day --- conta.cc/460vgVr

One heuristic to tell how good someone is at making decisions is how much time they have. The busiest people are often the ones who make the worst decisions. Not only do they have less time to think about the problem, but they are often busy correcting poor past decisions.

"Pick an industry where you can play long term games with long term people." @naval

One of the coolest video I’ve ever seen Randomness and chaos from the universe imported into systems to make them better 🔥

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"An expert is a person who has found out by his own painful experience all the mistakes that one can make in a very narrow field." -- Niels Bohr (1855-1962)

"The task is not to see what has never been seen before, but to think what has never been thought before about what you see every day." -- Erwin Schrödinger (1887 - 1961)

“Pleasure is never as pleasant as we expected it to be and pain is always more painful. The pain in the world always outweighs the pleasure. If you don't believe it, compare the respective feelings of two animals, one of which is eating the other.”