Thread by @george__mack

🧠 Today I Learnt:

20 OF THE BEST TWEETS OF @mmay3r.

Michael has a spectacular ability to distill more insight in one tweet than most authors give in a whole book.

I scraped his tweet library - here are some of my faves 🔥🔥🔥

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1. "Good habits are personal capital. They require investment, but many pay off 1000X over a lifetime." - @mmay3r

2. "School teaches you to think like Blue Apron teaches you to cook." - @mmay3r

3. "Anti-drone tech might be a 10X larger market than drones." - @mmay3r

4. "People undervalue their time because it can’t be traded. As if pricelessness were the same as valuelessness." - @mmay3r

5. "Cult: failed religion. Religion: successful cult." - @mmay3r

6. "Raising money is a good way to learn the weakest parts of your business plan. It’s like free consulting." - @mmay3r

7. "Politics is such a cancer that people want things to go badly for everyone when their opponents are in power." - @mmay3r

8. "Your mind automatically generates thoughts related to the information you consume. Be conscious of your information diet" - @mmay3r

9. "As a society moves from scarcity to abundance, the cultural value that is most likely to be underdeveloped is restraint." - @mmay3r

10. "Advice for nearly everything: start slowly and maintain traction." - @mmay3r

11. "Technology is called an addiction after it becomes fully integrated with our lives and before we've forgotten life without it." - @mmay3r

12. "Most Americans are phenomenally wealthy by historical standards, but don’t notice because everyone else is wealthy too (and they mostly care about relative status)." - @mmay3r

13. "Poor nutrition builds up biological technical debt, then medicine tries to fix bugs." - @mmay3r

14. "Advice from a failed practitioner will be better than from a successful theorist." - @mmay3r

15. "Throw ten people in a room for three hours and by the end they'll all have a nearly identical subconscious map of the temporary social hierarchy that was formed." - @mmay3r

16. "The more primitive your building blocks, the more complex the structures are that you can build. Think from first principles." - @mmay3r

17. "Personality tests are the best way to figure out what you think about yourself." - @mmay3r

18. "It's hard to prioritize the long term when you think you should feel comfortable in every moment." - @mmay3r

19. "Frustration = emotion + inaction." - @mmay3r

20. "Aliens arrive on earth and declare we get to ask them one question. Some idiot yells “what’s your morning routine?”" - @mmay3r