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How to Debug Your Own Brain
Summary:
The business side of things is relatively fluid. It doesn't take a whole lot of mental effort or energy to keep those things in mind right now. You are the instrument that you use to get things done in the world. There's still a tremendous amount of effort and skill that's valuable in that domaind.
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Like when you're trying to get yourself to do something you know you should b be doing, but somehow there's some sort of barrier that's keeping you from doing that. I think at this point i've, i've worked in enough businesses and started enough of my own businesses, the business side of things is relatively fluid. It doesn take a whole lot of mental effort or energy to keep those things in mind right now. But you are the instrument that you use to get things done in the world. And so the the debugging your own mind and help and trying to anticipate how others are thinking and feeling and trying to optimize around that, there's still a tremendous amount of Effort and skill that's valuable in that domaind and i find myself thinking about tho sorts of things quite often.
#106 Josh Kaufman — Maximizing Our Locus of Control
The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish
Conformal cyclic cosmology (CCC) is a cosmological model in the framework of general relativity and proposed by theoretical physicist Roger Penrose. In CCC, the universe iterates through infinite cycles, with the future timelike infinity (i.e. the latest end of any possible timescale evaluated for any point in space) of each previous iteration being identified with the Big Bang singularity of the next. Penrose popularized this theory in his 2010 book Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe.
Conformal Cyclic Cosmology - Wikipedia
Roger Penrose
Energy costs of energy are now increasingly expressed in terms of EROI, energy return on investment (more accurately it should be energy return on energy invested). Ratios for individual energy source range widely, from barely positive (1–1.4) for the U.S. corn-based ethanol to more than 100 for the early years of extraction from the world’s most productive oilfields (Gupta and Hall 2011). King, Maxwell, and Donovan (2015a) looked at 44 countries whose GDP comprises more than 90% of the world economic product and found that the global ratio for all primary energy declined from 34 in 1980 to 17 in 1986 before remaining between 14 and 16 from 1991 to 2010.
Energy Transitions: Global and National Perspectives
Vaclav Smil
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