Zach Gallagher

We are the universe being conscious of itself.

See the world anew each moment.

“Zen is spiritual ophthalmology.” – Alan Watts

There are trillions of cells in your body right now just obeying the laws of physics and keeping you alive. Pretty crazy

Steps I had to take to make a payment via cashier’s checks this morning: - drive to bank - $8 fee per check - deliver physical checks Crypto is coming for TradFi’s lunch.

MVP Baseball 2005 soundtrack is the GOAT

Remembering Kobe Bryant.

"The greatest tragedy of mankind comes from the inability of people to have thoughtful disagreement to find out what’s true." – Ray Dalio

@briankoppelman Give and Take by @AdamMGrant and The Inner Game of Tennis by Timothy Gallwey @the_innergame

@kramerss Bay Cities?

"An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest." – Benjamin Franklin

@david_perell "Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it… Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again." – Steve Jobs

Name one idea that changed your life. (Extra points for an article link)

“Who knows doesn’t talk. Who talks doesn’t know.” One of my favorite lines in the Tao Te Ching translation by Ursula K. Le Guin

@tommycollison I recommend keybr.com for increasing your typing speed or learning a new keyboard layout. I'm learning Colemak right now ⌨️

Being able to type quickly pays outsized dividends.

@david_perell Passive: Sentences with passive voice cannot be easily understood through visualization. Active: Readers cannot visualize passive sentences. Check out the book Revising Prose by Richard Lanham.

hi my name is david, i am a professional writing teacher, and i have no idea what the passive voice is. 🤷🏼‍♂️

@tommycollison Seeking Wisdom – From Darwin to Munger by Peter Bevelin

“I found out that with 150 well-chosen books a man possesses a complete analysis of all human knowledge, or at least all that is either useful or desirable to be acquainted with.” —Abbé Faria, “The Count of Monte Cristo.” What books should make that shortlist?

"If our vision is narrowed by a preconceived theory as to what will happen, we are almost certain to misinterpret the facts and to misjudge the issue." Great article from 1890, The Method of Multiple Working Hypotheses. HT @PeterAttiaMD arti.vub.ac.be/cursus/2005-20…

@paytonjjones Sleep, exercise, nutrition

Give your best mental health advice in three words.

@iam_preethi I think your conviction in an idea should be relative to the process by which you reach a decision. @waitbutwhy made a great visualization showing the amount of conviction that someone who thinks like a scientist should have in his/her beliefs.

Have conviction. It makes you irresistible.

"While we are postponing, life speeds by." - Seneca

Yet another great piece by @waitbutwhy in his new series. This was my favorite post so far - a fascinating take on how we form beliefs waitbutwhy.com/2019/09/thinki…