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Jan 27 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
This year I'm learning useful things about the below topics, and sharing what I learn.

I believe we learn best together.

1️⃣ Digital Entrepreneurship
2️⃣ Writing & Creativity
3️⃣ Leverage Building
4️⃣ Life & Wisdom
5️⃣ Web3 (fascinated)

Here are 10 threads from this month! 🧵
100 useful and educational resources shared on Twitter in the past 365 days:

A synthesis of:
-The Beginning of Infinity
-The Origins of Creativity
-The Rational Optimist
-Sapiens

A theory of creativity that will make you a better writer:

In an age of leverage:

1. Push to the extreme in your art
2. Move to the frontier

The distilled personal philosophy of Jack Butcher:

A distillation of Bret Victor's extraordinary talk, "Inventing on Principle":

Why you should create and build a Book of Wisdom throughout your life:

The craft of writing effectively:

Goal setting for the creative process:

What I learned from doing 75 Hard:

And if you haven't explored it, my pinned tweet includes a few dozen summaries and rabbit holes into the minds of thoughtful people.

For more, check out UnStuck: the podcast for creative people, brought to you by @gumroad (new episode tomorrow) 🙂

Hints, tips, and tactics on how to make the right bets

gumroad.com/podcast

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Jan 27
In 2017, ARK Invest began publishing a Big Ideas report to enlighten investors on the impact of breakthrough technologies.

Yesterday ARK released Big Ideas 2022, highlighting ARK's most provocative research conclusions for the coming year.

Here’s a distillation of what it says:
ARK is led by @CathieDWood

@ARKInvest is focused solely on disruptive innovation: opportunities likely to scale as technologies converge, transforming entire industries.

Big Ideas 2022 offers a cross-sector understanding of tech and the future
For info purposes only
Not investment advice
Not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any particular security
Read ARK’s risk and disclosure statement

Okay – let’s dive in!
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Jan 25
Twitter is free university.

But even 100k-impression tweets aren't seen by 99.95% in a day

Imagine what's shared & missed in a YEAR

Here are 100 of the most useful & educational resources shared on Twitter in the past 365 days:
I curated & organized these resources into sections:

1️⃣ Content & Recommendations
2️⃣ Writing & Creativity
3️⃣ Business & Entrepreneurship
4️⃣ Web3, Crypto & NFTs
5️⃣ Money, Tax & Investing
6️⃣ Life & Wisdom
7️⃣ Practical & Misc.

Let's get to it!
SECTION 1️⃣: CONTENT & RECOMMENDATIONS
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Jan 21
The ultimate career hack:

Writing well without getting stuck

Here's a theory of creativity that will instantly make you a better writer:
When people say, “writing is thinking,” 99% don’t mean it literally.

They mean it figuratively: writing *clarifies* thinking by helping put ideas in order.

But they were right the first time: writing doesn’t clarify thinking; writing IS thinking.
Writing and conscious thinking are one and the same thing.

When you write, you’re not “putting your thoughts in writing” or “conveying your ideas.”

Your thoughts are the writing itself.
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Jan 19
If you do these 3 things daily:

1. Read about ideas you love
2. Take notes from your reading in your own words
3. Create pointers from your notes to your reading

You can't help but write. Eventually, your notes will relate to themes – and writing will take care of itself.
When you read actively every day and put ideas into your own words, you’ll never be at a loss for ideas.
The most creative people are on a constant search for the best sources they can find about subjects they love.

Then they systematically harvest the best thoughts they find in those sources.

Their goal is to take mental ownership of everything they read.
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Jan 18
In an age of leverage, B gets paid 10,000x more than A
The classic formulation:

“Being at the extreme in your art is very important in the age of leverage.” -@naval

My interpretation is there's confusion these days.

People conflate being at the extreme with being on the frontier.

Naval never does that. Here's how we puts it.
Being marginally better means getting outsized rewards (by orders of magnitude).

That means combining your skills and pushing as far to the extreme as possible.

That also implies loving what you do so much you can persevere.
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Jan 17
NEW THREAD SERIES

"The Rules They Live By"

1️⃣ READ the philosophy of a thoughtful person in 2 min

2️⃣ LEARN a contrarian belief

3️⃣ TAKE a simple idea seriously

Thoughtful Person #1: @jackbutcher 👇
One person's take (mine) on the distilled philosophy of Jack Butcher, in two min:
Memes exert force in the world and drive human progress.

But many people *still* underestimate their power and significance.
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