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The "What Stays the Same" Razor
It's difficult to predict the future.
Jeff Bezos famously said that investing in what might change is risky, but investing in what will remain constant is safe.
When building for the future, focus on the constants—focus on what stays the same.
“Razors” Are Rules of Th...
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Do campaigns of nonviolent resistance work? Many people believe that Gandhi and Martin Luther King just got lucky: their movements tugged at the heartstrings of enlightened democracies at opportune moments, but everywhere else, oppressed people need violence to get out from under a dictator’s boot. The political scientists Erica Chenoweth and Maria Stephan assembled a dataset of political resistance movements across the world between 1900 and 2006 and discovered that three-quarters of the nonviolent resistance movements succeeded, compared with only a third of the violent ones. Gandhi and King were right, but without data, you would never know it.
Enlightenment Now
Steven Pinker
The earning strategy of the rich 1% is working hard once to create a source of income that will keep generating money for them for years
The “Work Once, Get Paid for Life" Earning Strategy of the Rich
David O.
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