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@TheAncientSage "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values" by Robert M. Pirsig
"Tao Te Ching" by Lao Tzu
"Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse
“The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature” By Steven Pinker
“Cleopatra: A Life.” By Stacy Schiff
@TheAncientSage “Cloud Atlas: A Novel.” By David Mitchell
“The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations On Wisdom, Perseverance, And The Art Of Living.” By Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman
“Foundation.” By Isaac Asimov (and all of its follow on books)
@TheAncientSage “Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman.” By James Gleick
“Ghostwritten.” By David Mitchell
“The Lessons of History.” By Will and Ariel Durant
“Letters of Note.” By Shaun Usher
“Money: A Suicide Note.” By Martin Amis
“The Razor’s Edge.” By W. Somerset Maugham
@TheAncientSage “The Road.” By Cormac McCarthy
“Rules for Old Men Waiting: A Novel.” By Peter Pouncey
“The Screwtape Letters.” By C.S. Lewis
"Twins: And What The Tell Us About Who We Are.” By Lawrence Wright
“What do You Care What Other People Think?” By Richard P. Feynman
@TheAncientSage “When Breath Becomes Air.” By Paul Kalanithi
“Wolf Hall: A Novel.” By Hilary Mantel
"Zorba the Greek." by Nikos Kazantzakis
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" by Richard P. Feynman and Ralph Leighton
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1/ Markets change minute-by-minute.
Human nature barely changes millennium-by-millennium.
There's your edge.
How To Arbitrage Human Nature: A thread
2/ People want to believe the present is different than the past. Markets are now computerized, high-frequency and block traders dominate, the individual investor is gone and, in his/her place, sit a plethora of huge mutual funds and hedge funds to which he has given his money.
3/ Many have simply given up trying to earn alpha in the market and have given their money to index funds. Some people think these masters of money make decisions differently and believe that looking at how a strategy performed in the 1950′s or 1960′s offers
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12/ the market on 16 occasions. As Dreman dryly notes: “This meant, in effect, that when a client received professional advice about those stocks, they would underperform the market almost nine times out of ten.” Finally, many studies have shown that this is true in almost
13/ all forecasts, be they about stock prices, patients needing medical treatment, college admissions offices trying to pick who to admit–and virtually every other industry where professionals were making predictions and forecasts. And yet, even with all of this empirical
14/ data, we continue to crave forecasts and put a lot of faith in them. Why? Human nature. We abhor not knowing what might happen and crave continuity and certainty. Thus, we tend to grasp on to anything that sounds reasonable and often end up following a narrative that leads
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1/ Successful Active Investors Generally Ignore Forecasts and Predictions.

“I have no use whatsoever for projections or forecasts. They create an illusion of apparent precision. The more meticulous they are, the more concerned you should be.”
~Warren Buffett
2/ You can’t turn on business TV or read all of the various business news outlets or even talk with other investors without being bombarded with both short- and long-term forecasts and predictions. Against all the evidence, forecasts and predictions about what might happen in
3/ the future are intuitively attractive to us, since we are desperate to have a narrative about how the future might unfold. We tend to extrapolate what has happened recently well into the future, which almost never works. We’ll explore the results of this in a minute,
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E.D. Hirsch, Jr., delivered a keynote at Making Shift Happen 2018, in Amsterdam (no, not online). In his books, Hirsch evaded the question of nature/nature in intelligence. Surprisingly, now his keynote centered on the idea of the ‘blank slate’ originating with John Locke. 1/..
Also know as ‘tabula rasa’, or ‘white paper’. On (the reception of) Locke’s idea of education and the blank slate, see Margaret J. M. Ezell (1983). ‘John Locke's Images of Childhood’ jstor.org/stable/2738281 There’s more to it than the word ‘blank’ suggests. 2/..
Of course, nowadays ‘The Blank Slate’ is the 20032book by Steven Pinker on the subject. An essay by Pinker, using material of the book: apadivisions.org/division-1/pub… I haven’t read the book yet, but I see Pinker neglects Galton’s influential ideas on heritability. It is nature! 3/..
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Objective #art is possible only when somebody has attained to a higher plane of being; it is created by those who have reached the peak. They can see the peak and they can see the valley both. They can see the height, the beauty, the sickness and the ugliness of #humanity.
They can see deep down in the dark valleys. They can manage to create some devices which will help the people who are crawling in the darkness to reach the sunlit peaks. Their art will be just a device for your inner #growth, for #maturity.
Picasso’s pictures are subjective art. Seeing a painting by Picasso … he has not considered you, who are going to see the painting. You are not taken into account at all. He has simply vomited his own madness on the canvas. It is simply a vomit.
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A lot of people have asked for a list of ALL the book titles from #ExLibris, but NOBODY asked for (or wanted) a thread of tweets with all of them! STRAP IN!
Aardvarks & Odd Sharks
Abbrevs, FYI
Abnormal Abdominal Excercises
Abominable Snowhens
Accursed Carnivals & Circuses
Actually... The History of Humansplaining
Advanced Oneiromancy
Aggrivating Agriculture
Alchemy at Home
Alliterative Literature
All Pain, No Gain
All the Pretty Unicorns (@seanmccoy)
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Almost Unspeakable Evils
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Antagonists of Antiquity
Archaeologically Illogical: A Novel
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Everyday I see my reading list growing impossibly long despite reading more than ever before in my life. After I read a great book, I look to the citations and think, now I want to read all of those.
If I read with a note pad and pen alongside me, I can't get through much more than a few paragraphs without writing a ton of notes and losing my mind in deep thought. It makes for slow going but deep comprehension and magnificent inspiration.
I want to go back to Hobbes v Locke. Then Nietzsche and Freud Again. Then Rousseau. Trace that all the way to Blank Slatists and Evo Biologists, and the widening divide between science and fantasy.
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Came across a 2012 article by @paulg about Startup ideas worth pursuing. It was quite long but was full of useful anecdotes so I took notes along the way. THREAD
1-The way to get startup ideas is not to try to think of startup ideas. It's to look for problems
2-The very best startup ideas tend to have three things in common:
a. they are something the founders themselves want.
b. They themselves can build.
c. Few others realize they are worth doing.
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