Quick comment — hope that helps — I follow a good number of publications in my favorite way: the laziest way that is still free. I wanted to share it with you today. Unfortunately, none of the linked services sponsor this content, and I am getting no money for this advertising. …

Flight or fight, but do not freeze; for your life — What does not kill me, makes me stronger. What does not make me stronger, kills me. Looking busy is not making you stronger. Tread with caution even if you need only a few hours for it, and spend the rest of the time studying. For two reasons: Skills without proven…

Or anyone, really — One of my favorite features in Substack is footnotes. I know I should be writing linearly, and I consider that I do (“sans footnotes”). Hence, I like footnotes to keep any digression or other hopefully-relevant context away without entirely removing it. However, they could be better in horizontal and vertical…

There is no way out and everything is at stake — The concept of “homo narrans” brought me here, and now you are here too. According to Wikipedia: Fisher wrote that ‘many different root metaphors have been put forth to represent the essential nature of human beings: homo faber, homo economicous, homo politicus, homo sociologicus, “psychological man”, “ecclesiastical man”, homo sapiens…

(without getting lucky) — Legendary Twitter thread from Naval Ravikant, in blog post format. Seek wealth, not money or status. Wealth is having assets that earn while you sleep. Money is how we transfer time and wealth. Status is your place in the social hierarchy. Understand that ethical wealth creation is possible. …

“The tyranny of metrics” pushes outputs toward arbitrary targets, backfiring into negative outcomes, not measured nor managed. — Disclaimer: Text from ChatGPT, shared here for convenience. Prompt at the end. Summary: China’s growth targets, established at the national, regional, and city levels, aim to steer economic planning, resource allocation, and performance evaluation. However, this metric fixation leads to negative consequences, such as malinvestment, an overemphasis on GDP, data…

Useless information is more engaging, avoid that trap — Actionable tl;dr: an information diet is not about the amount of information consumed, but its quality: concise, actionable, and durable. Social networks could be about friends helping friends and creating value, where less time spent is best, by a greater ROTI. Usually, social networks are about influencers monetizing audiences, influencing…

When facing real problems, people tend to prefer solutions to entertainment — hopefully — Short post today.1 During a bubble, when money is raining on fools, the only problem is boredom, and useless entertainment allows the “attention economy” to thrive. During hard times (e.g., a crisis, a recession, or a depression), people have real problems, and the attention should refocus on solving the problems.2

A conversation with ChatGPT — I share a conversation with ChatGPT, quoting the answers from ChatGPT. The conclusion is after that. Conversation Very large language models like GPT use statistics to generate the text with the greatest likelihood in a context. Consequently, they are good at stating what is “needless to say” but are unlikely to…