Joe Norman

Currently on hour 2.5 of @lexfridman recent epic podcast with Wolfram. Fun stuff I'm not convinced the formal-theory-of-everything is something that can exist, but all this graph rewriting business is cool to be sure

has a really good podcast with Alexander Dugin recently You can hear his response to "do Russians continue to do influence ops" He says no. But it's obviously yes. Lol.

Nassim is farm poasting Ok it's a must watch Think @home_grown_sanc also recommended

Enjoy it. It's the best book for libs out there

Great book!

I'm aware of it but have not looked at it For intro to technical topics I highly recommend @HirokiSayama's book. Do the python along with it!

The first word that comes to mind when I think of this book: Beautiful. In unparalleled form, Alexander takes us through the process by which humans have constructed their living spaces since time immemorial — backgrounding the profession of the ‘architect’ as an artifact of modern career-making. Alexander aligns architectural activity with the activity of life itself: to achieve the quality with no name. We all know this quality somewhere inside ourselves, it is the overwhelming bittersweetness manifest in tears of joy. Alexander reminds us that in this world we find ourselves, patterns of interactions are what are primarily ‘real’, and the material is the mere medium of these patterns. Further, the book reminds us that we make our world, and understanding the way we make worlds that are alive is essential for human flourishing.

Josh is a fascinating guy with a unique trajectory through the world Great listen and gives a lot of insight into what really goes on "at the top" My favorite was this white pill wisdom: the chaotic unscripted nature of the world means INDIVIDUALS MATTER. what we do matters.

Naval, you must read The Timeless Way. A book about complexity that could make you weep. Then, nature of order series.

The most important @joerogan podcast is the one with Carrot Top 🥕

I should read it

Gigerenzer’s Gut Feelings was my first rigorous encounter with the power of heuristics in human behavior. He challenges naive definitions of human rationality that posit its congruence with cold, disinterested logic. Throughout the book, G demonstrates that quite often ‘rules of thumb’ outperform methods that attempt to model reality, form predictions from the model, and act based on those predictions. Such approaches are fragile to model error, require costly computations, and typically are not able to adapt robustly to noise.