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"The ability to intelligently fill your free time is the highest degree of personal culture."

— Bertrand Russell
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behavioural arbitrage is a very interesting thing that i just came across

something to think about

eg. long delivery services, short brick & mortar stores
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The Creative Act by Rick Rubin

night walk blink, pretty simple book with only one message imo

also, was somehow reminded of The Alchemist in the lesson of listening to the language of the world

main takeaways:
- find your creativity in nature and the everyday life
- disconnect to reduce bombardment of information to let your senses flow

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[2026 NYR Reading Goal]

Total: 6/15
- Fiction: 1/8
- Non-fiction: 5/7

1. The Diary of A CEO - link
2. Purple Cow - link
3. Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop - link
4. This is Marketing - link
5. Ogilvy on Advertising - link
6. The Creative Act - link
honestly insane

we’ve never seen such steep exponential scales of advancement, a first for mankind

which means it’s possible that even studying history will not clue you
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i think i can somewhat vouch for this as well be optimistic ! https://x.com/sahilbloom/status/2025620263128142080?s=46&t=nluSw7cwYGx8zFxfoYi5Iw
The part nobody talks about from this paper: the authors explicitly state optimism is modifiable. This isn’t a personality trait you’re born with. Cognitive reappraisal training, morning sunlight for cortisol rhythm regulation, deliberate breathing protocols for vagal tone, structured gratitude practices. All of these shift the prefrontal cortex patterns that determine where you sit on the optimism spectrum.

A 35% reduction in cardiac events from a trainable psychological variable is a bigger effect size than most supplements on the market. That’s the real story buried in this abstract.

https://x.com/aakashgupta/status/2025799591199969635?s=46&t=nluSw7cwYGx8zFxfoYi5Iw
observation:
social media has proliferated relationship standards and goals, mostly by females. the bar seems to be getting increasingly raised as ‘bare minimum’, whereby males have to bring plenty to the table in all aspects. however, females don’t seem to need to bring anything to the table, or maybe the same increasing standards aren’t applied against them.

factoring in inflation, rising costs of living, and more, it is harder to manage as a sole breadwinner (you can’t raise a family of 5 with $2k/mth anymore). yet, the same expectation of men is still held while standards in other aspects are also rising because females are trending away from the traditional housewife dynamic. so, expectations seem to float around not being a traditional housewife AND expecting the male to provide mostly (on top of emotional needs etc.)

“her money is her money, his money is shared money.”

how did we get here?

https://x.com/escapefrommelos/status/2025188839166296132

at the same time, females do enjoy a certain amount of demand inelasticity in general due to biological needs imo. could be a contributor of things too. much more inelasticity for the top % of women in looks and sexiness.

ofc, this is not 100% for all females, just a trending observation

feels like as society gets tougher to live in, more females would rather return to traditional dynamics to live a relatively more stress free life than their male counterparts.

some speculate this phenomenon as hollowing out the middle management of the workforce