Long Read: Understand These 8 Truths And Our Crazy World Will Suddenly Make Sense To You
Michael Simmons | 26 minutes
Reality is fed to us through a straw (algorithmic newsfeeds). Newsfeeds consist of value hooks (title/image/subtitle).
Value hooks compete for our clicks and likes.
Winning value hooks get featured. Losing value hooks get buried.
Everyone can publish to the newsfeed.
Attention is finite and nonrenewable.
No one is in control.
Humans are chimps in disguise.
Snippets
Progress itself is understudied. By “progress,” we mean the combination of economic, technological, scientific, cultural, and organizational advancement that has transformed our lives and raised standards of living over the past couple of centuries.
- Patrick Collison and Tyler Cowen, We Need a New Science of Progress
If you want to be lucky, look for opportunities with big upsides and low downsides.
- David Perell, 50 Ideas That Changed My Life
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