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Helpful Support = 1. Increased Trajectory + 2. Increase Resilience Harmful Support = 1. No Improvement In Trajectory + 2. Lowered Resilience Support in Different Contexts - Workplace: Managers should focus on developing employees' skills and independence - Parenting: The goal is to raise independent adults, not perpetually dependent children - Friendships: There's a delicate balance between being supportive and becoming a "coach" - Addiction and mental health: Support should aim for long-term re...
The main points talked about are: - Teaching kids about the business world. For example, they could learn by trading shares. - Understanding how to build healthy relationships with themselves and others. A way to do this is by exploring philosophy. - Learning how to create things. Instead of focusing on music, we could emphasize entrepreneurship and building projects. If you want to contact us please do so at [email protected]
- A16Z on why they support Trump: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_sNclEgQZQ - Tim Urban explaining social justice fundamentalist (wokeness): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALdi_MX3bfQ - Nate Silver on election: https://www.natesilver.net/p/nate-silver-2024-president-election-polls-model If you want to contact us please do so at [email protected]
Jon Haidt's main points: - No smartphones before high school. Parents should delay children’s entry into round-the-clock internet access by giving only basic phones (phones with limited apps and no internet browser) before ninth grade (roughly age 14). - No social media before 16. Let kids get through the most vulnerable period of brain development before connecting them to a firehose of social comparison and algorithmically chosen influencers. - Phone-free schools. In all schools from elementar...
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/andrew-sullivan-americas-new-religions.html “Religion is an attempt to find meaning in events, not a theory that tries to explain the universe.” It exists because we humans are the only species, so far as we can know, who have evolved to know explicitly that, one day in the future, we will die. And this existential fact requires some way of reconciling us to it while we are alive. No meaning = Hopelessness. What is wokeness? https://boghossian.substack.com/...
"Free speech is the master value as it's the value that updates all othe values." “I’m worried that as technology gets more powerful that it’ll be easier for the minorities who want to screw things up, to screw things up.” “Today it’s possible for one person to derange the lives of million, even billions of people.” Sam Harris. Who is worse for free speech? The hard left or the hard right? IMO the hard left. Woke people. “Woke mind virus is the biggest threat to the civilization” IMO extremists ...
What is good parenting = 1. Like school + 2. Have good friends + 3. Good parent / child relationship + 4. Good academic outcomes (top 10%) + 5. Good extra curricula. Eastern and Western parenting. It's important to remember that parenting styles within any culture. 1. *Education Focus*: - Eastern: There's often a strong emphasis on academic achievement, discipline, and respect for authority. - Western: Education may be more balanced with extracurricular activities, encouraging creativity and ind...
- The Insidious Lie That We Can’t Understand Each Other: https://jonathanhaidt.substack.com/p/identity-trap - A Case for Color Blindness | Coleman Hughes | TED: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxB3b7fxMEA - Compelling case for our colourblind Constitution https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/letters/compelling-case-for-our-colourblind-constitution/news-story/27c30802cc4fc971304b923db33f9ce1 If you want to contact us please do so at [email protected]
Podcast: - Marc Andreessen: How Risk Taking, Innovation & Artificial Intelligence Transform Human Experience - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yixIc1Ai6jM Big 5 personality traits: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits - conscientiousness (efficient/organized vs. extravagant/careless) - agreeableness (friendly/compassionate vs. critical/rational) - neuroticism (sensitive/nervous vs. resilient/confident) - openness to experience (inventive/curious vs. consistent/cautious...
Trust = Consistency * Time. Ray Dalio. Bad news early is good news as you have time to do something about it. Anything that isn’t against the laws of physics can be invented. David Deutsch The job of a founder is to find solutions to impossible problems. Sam Altman. People like to talk about the importance of "vision," but ultimately running a startup is like doing science: you have to follow the truth wherever it leads. Vision is only valuable insofar as it predicts where you'll find truth. Pau...
Relevant links: - Mental abilities = 1. Quantity * 2. Quality - Link to what the most popular IQ test consists of. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wechsler_Adult_Intelligence_Scale - Intelligence continuum: inherited (born) <=> built - Lex Fridman Podcast: Richard Haier: IQ Tests, Human Intelligence, and Group Differences | #302 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hppbxV9C63g - Sam Harris Podcast: Forbidden Knowledge: A Conversation with Charles Murray. https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/makin...
- Esther Perel: People used to leave relationships because they were unhappy, now people level them to because they want to be more happy. - Tim Urban: Happiness = Reality - Expectations - John Gottman relationship stages: Phase 1: Falling in Love – Limerence · Phase 2: Building Trust · Phase 3: Building Commitment and Loyalty. - Elon Musk: 'Who wrote the code running in your head?' Or are the values you have 'written by you', or by someone else. We think that it's better to understand what the ...
Relevant links and ideas: - Purpose Vs Play Vs Peace: Plentiful Ingredients For A Pleasant Life. https://www.cloudstreaks.com/blog/2022/4/9/purpose-vs-play-vs-peace-plentiful-ingredients-for-a-pleasant-life - Satisfaction vs Happiness. - Maslow's heirarchy of needs. If you want to contact us please do so at [email protected]
Relevant articles. - Intellectual fragility: https://jonathanhaidt.substack.com/p/mental-health-liberal-girls - Exiting the Vampire Castle: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/exiting-vampire-castle/ - Naval: the the foundation morality is the creation of an environment that allows for error correction. - Good intentions don't necessarily lead to good outcomes. - Tim urban: Victim culture vs Dignity culture vs Honour culture. If you want to contact us please do so at info@cloudstrea...
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Outcome = 1. The issue you care about * 2. The strategy you have to improve things for the issue * 3. The way you interact with others to try and update their views to align more with your... or that you update your views based on interactions with othes. - The last part I think is where Cancel Culture is concerned. - You can agree with the issue being important, agree with the strategy someone has to make a difference about the issue, but disagree with how they interact with others. Often these...
System of justice or system of revenge. Rule of law or rule of power. "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." Voltaire. "I disapprove of what you say, and I will find to the death to get you cancelled." Woke culture. https://jonathanhaidt.substack.com/p/mental-health-liberal-girls They came to believe that they were fragile and would be harmed by books, speakers, and words, which they learned were forms of violence (Great Untruth #1). They came to bel...
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AGI = Intelligence (can upgrade itself) * Sentience (is self aware) - Bing’s A.I. Chat: ‘I Want to Be Alive. 😈’: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/16/technology/bing-chatbot-transcript.html - Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies. Book by Nick Bostrom. https://www.amazon.com.au/Superintelligence-Dangers-Strategies-Nick-Bostrom-ebook/dp/B00LOOCGB2 - The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology Book by Ray Kurzweil. https://www.amazon.com/Singularity-Near-Humans-Transcend-Biology/...
Jo Boaler - Mindset are the biggest thing to help improve maths outcomes. Martin Seligman - You can build resiliance: https://hbr.org/2011/04/building-resilience Don't be bitter, be better. Post traumtic stress vs Post traumatic growth. Fixed mindset vs Growth mindset. Fictim mindset vs Innovator mindset Learned helplessness vs Learned help yourselfness I was either right, or I learned something. I'm not trying to raise a child, I'm trying to raise a future adult. Life outcome = Starting point +...
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A core strategy for having a strong understanding of reality is having an objective measure for what progress is. We believe it's possible to have objective measures cover 80% or more of a subjective space. Some ideas discussed: - Diagnose before you prescribe: https://www.cloudstreaks.com/blog/2022/6/25/diagnose-before-you-prescribe-quality-diagnosis-100-coverage-problem-space-framework-building-a-framework-to-explain-100-of-the-problem-space - Don’t get high on your supply: - Known, ego distor...
Levels of the political system: 1. Politicians. 2. The laws of democracy. 3. The media. 4. Voters. - I consider it easiest to make a difference in the short term through the media and specifically through Twitter. Freedom of speech is not freedom or reach. Free speech doesn't mean one can say anything one wants. - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exceptions Ben Thompson, Stratechery and the 5th estate: - https://stratechery.com/2019/the-internet-and-the-third-estate/ - F...
Levelling up = Quantity * Quality - Quality is normally a function of past quantity. Over time the quality should improves. Places with ceiling vs ceilingless places. - In ceilingless mental places we believe one can level up indefinitely. Discipline = freedom. Jocko Willink. Discipline = More discipline. - Routine is cruicial to being able to do what you want. - First you make your habits, then your habits make you. Average IQ goes up. - https://reason.com/2015/06/01/average-iq-scores-have-rise...
https://www.cloudstreaks.com/blog/2022/4/9/purpose-vs-play-vs-peace-plentiful-ingredients-for-a-pleasant-life - Work can be fun. - Play can be fun. - Relaxing can be recharging, and a peaceful kind of fun. Progress can be happiness which can be fun. Writing can be fun.
The different types of work time: work from home, work from office, meetings, coffees, team lunch, company drinks, team offsite, company offsite. Some balance of all of them is optimal? Work from home is almost like having your own office. Sometimes you want to be in an open office, sometimes in a closed door office. With working from home and in the office you get both? Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule - Paul Graham http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html Some days working from home a...
In this episode we discuss if the US democracy is on track to break. In short we think yes. We discuss a history of governance systems and possible things that could be done to change the course. Here are some of the things mentioned: Transforming Power Relationships: Leadership, Risk, and Hope: https://www.jstor.org/stable/43654046 Stephen West and Philosophize this: https://www.philosophizethis.org/ The Open Society and Its Enemies - Book by Karl Popper: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Open_...
Some interesting resources: - Baby on Board: Understand Your Baby's Needs in the First Twelve Months by Howard Chilton - Love Is Biological Bribery. Evolution uses all its tricks to make sure we procreate. But love in humans is a many-splendored thing. BY BRIAN GALLAGHER Outcome = 1. Category of caring * 2. Length of caring - Categories of caring: conditional, unconditional and earned, unconditional and given (children) - Time: life long or not life long. Children have the deepest story of care:...
Listen to: Brené Brown Says You're Doing Feelings Wrong - https://www.tenpercent.com/podcast-episode/brene-brown-436 Daniel Goleman's emotional intelligence framework: - Self-awareness – the ability to know one's emotions, strengths, weaknesses, drives, values and goals and recognize their impact on others while using gut feelings to guide decisions. - Self-regulation – involves controlling or redirecting one's disruptive emotions and impulses and adapting to changing circumstances. - Social ski...
