A THREAD on insightful timeless ideas shared by @naval during 2016:

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If you diet, invest, and think according to what the "news" advocates, you& #39;ll end up nutritionally, financially, and morally bankrupt.
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Social media + clickbait journalism have metastasized into permanently outraged lynch mobs roaming the Internet, cowing people into silence.
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If you wouldn& #39;t say it to their face, then don& #39;t say it to them on social media.
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Anger is its own punishment.

An angry person trying to push your head below water is drowning at the same time.
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Politics is mostly incentives + tribalism + confirmation bias.

Not much different than sports or religion.
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If you ever want to have peace in your life, you have to move beyond good and evil.
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The Internet commoditized the distribution of facts.

The "news" media responded by pivoting wholesale into opinions and entertainment.
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To become a clearer, more independent thinker: 

Read the greats in math, science, philosophy.

Ignore your contemporaries and news.

Avoid tribal identification.

Truth above social approval.
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The real truths are heresies.

They cannot be spoken.

Only discovered, whispered, and perhaps read.
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Scientific truth is reproducible, falsifiable, and has predictive power.
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Number of books completed is a vanity metric.

As you know more, you leave more books unfinished.

Focus on new concepts with predictive power.
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Alone time is the best time.

But it never seems that way when it& #39;s happening, just after the fact.
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All modern diseases are diseases of abundance.

We punish ourselves by constantly entertaining our minds and bodies.
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The Internet has massively broadened the possible space of careers.

Most people haven& #39;t figured this out yet.
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Technology obsoletes jobs, but there is no upper bound on number of technology jobs themselves.

Temporal displacement, not permanent.
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The challenge of the next decade is not Artificial Intelligence, but Human Intelligence.

Can we retrain the workforce as knowledge workers?
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Free education is abundant, all over the Internet.

It& #39;s the desire to learn that& #39;s scarce.
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How much longer will smart young adults have to waste time and money collecting stamps from physical institutions?
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Who needs Stanford when our children will grow up gaming, socializing, and being educated in VR?
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The winning VR company will be the one that lets people share snippets of their life, from their own point of view.
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On a long enough timescale, everyone will be working for themselves (or flexibly on a small team).
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No one can compete with you on being you.

Most of life is a search for who and what needs you the most.
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Be the best in the world at what you do.

Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
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We waste our time with short term thinking and busywork.

Warren Buffett spends a year deciding and a day acting.

That act lasts decades.
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You& #39;ll do better work if you& #39;re bored rather than busy.
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Making money is not a thing that you do - it& #39;s a skill that you learn.
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You get paid for being right first, and to be first, you can& #39;t wait for consensus.
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Speech, money, code, and media are all the same thing underneath. 

You can& #39;t free one without freeing the rest.
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To think clearly, understand the basics.

If you& #39;re memorizing advanced concepts without being able to re-derive them as needed, you& #39;re lost.
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Society, business & money are downstream of technology, which is itself downstream of science.

Science applied is the engine of humanity.
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It& #39;s really unclear if the long arc of technology leads to complete independence or complete interdependence.
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Almost all biases are time-saving heuristics.

For important decisions, discard memory and identity, and focus on the problem.
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It& #39;s shocking how many important life decisions I make by scouring Internet forums.
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What if this life is the paradise we were promised, and we& #39;re just squandering it?
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Maybe sometimes we suffer so that we can experience the full range of human experience.
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Shortcut to Awe:

1) Immerse self in nature
2) Turn off voice in head
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The winners of any game are the people who are so addicted, that they continue playing even as the marginal utility from winning declines.
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Your closest friends are the ones you can have a relationship with about nothing.
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The funnier the comic, the truer the things they are saying.
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Today& #39;s social media, payment, identity, & application platforms will ultimately be replaced by distributed, uncensorable, open source ones.
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Most goods are becoming information goods.
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The first warm and developed country that has an easy and transparent process for renting citizenship is going to make a killing.
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