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A Strategic Exercise from Thucydides
I am reading Thucydides’s History of the Peloponnesian War. The clarity of the text surprises me—perhaps due to the skill of Thucydides or the translator. Nonetheless, you could exercise your strategic thought through the chapter on the Athenian decision to choose between Corcyra and Corinth. I hold the Athenian perspective in this writing. Some quotes…
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A Simple Mathematical Representation of Top Performers
Steve Jobs has a quote along the lines that he built Apple by seeking A players. When it comes to top performers, A players really like working with one another, shooing away B and C players. I think people know that intuitively. Here is a simple way to see it mathematically. Suppose: From here, we…
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The City and Genetics
(Art by トキキ) Mindset dictates fate—thinking that something is impossible staples the extrapolation of an idea or future. “There is no point in trying,” proclaims a defeatist to a determined optimist. Conversely, believing that something is possible, it might as well be possible. “We are not at the limits of physics,” retorts the determined optimist.…
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Reference: Nick Szabo, Transportation, divergence, and the industrial revolution
Nick Szabo, Transportation, divergence, and the industrial revolution Archive link—here.
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Reference: Nick Szabo, Small-game fallacies
Nick Szabo, Small-game fallacies Additional That DARPA-sponsored prediction market Szabo mentions is the FutureMAP one, where the goal was to improve upon any current intelligence surrounding an environment.
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Random infographics that I find interesting
Just some infographics, briefed with what I think about them as a group. These images have no particular order, but they are grouped by theme. For example, images with a focus on finance will stick with finance. This will slowly amass over the years. OPERATION UNFALLEN BABEL: China can draw on a talent pool of…
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1 Country, 100 Countries, 1000 Countries, and Space
In 1945, 51 countries existed in the world. In 2024, 193 countries exist. Peter Thiel gave a thought experiment about people in the future and their freedom. It goes like this: would more countries exist or would fewer countries exist? And what would the number of countries mean for freedom? Three scenarios exist in this…
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Monopolies have no choice but to innovate
Looking for monopolies is an open secret in the realm of investing. We can deduce this open secret from scratch. If we consider the purpose of investors, which could be said as looking for the largest amount of profits, we could say that investors look for strong, dominant companies. Hence, looking for monopolies is part…
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Notes on Notetaking
I don’t take enough notes. I don’t think people take enough notes either. Here are my notes on notetaking. These notes are in random order and in columns so it is easier to browse through and jump around: left or right, up or down, whichever way you want to read or whichever one catches your…