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A batch of the best highlights from what Tristan's read, .
If you look at the most habit-forming products, you’ll notice that one of the things these goods and services do best is remove little bits of friction from your life. Meal delivery services reduce the friction of shopping for groceries. Dating apps reduce the friction of making social introductions.
Atomic Habits
James Clear
The more complex, and hence improbable, something seems, the greater the amount of specialized information needed to produce it. The form of this specialized information is variously recognized as blueprints, recipes, genes (i.e., DNA or RNA), or more generally as instructions. Instructions come in many forms, but a simple definition might be as follows: “Specific encoded information having the property that when used to sequentially modify a second system, the final outcome is predetermined and somehow advantageous or desirable to whoever or whatever created the instructions.”
The Engine of Complexity
John Hollenbeck and John Mayfield
If he could go farther in his comprehension and realize that God and man and the oak and the atom are just One, and that all these are thinking out the divine Idea, then would he be close to the door of the Holy of Holies.
The Universal One
Walter Russell
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