#Things to consider
- Technology is the driving force of history.
- Put your trust in technology over politicians because technology is what works no matter what politician is in office.
- Being really good at software is going to keep earning compounding returns.
- Look for the areas technology has not moved into yet. That’s where the opportunities will be.
- Look for things people think of as “dead” or as not having worked and find out why.
- You need to learn how to make media clips and movies, write, publish, build relationships—you need to learn how to fight.
- The media you consume changes the decisions you make.
- Infotainment should be filtered out of your information diet.
- Increase your truth, health, and wealth. It’s your knowledge, your physical fitness, your bank account balance, or some combination of them. These are the good variables that you care about.
- You should be trying to level up each day for you and your family.
- Imagine your personal dashboard for your own fitness, diet, and sleep, and then maybe a family dashboard.
- Writing is important in remote work because you engage with people through writing.
- Starting fights on Twitter attracts followers. Followers are valuable. Starting fights in the physical world attracts police attention. That is not valuable.
- Reducing your cost of living to ⅕x is way easier than increasing your net worth by 5x.
- If you’re willing, you can move to the middle of nowhere and cut your expenditures. You can just read Kindle and live on simple, healthy foods.
- Write out your goals. It’s amazing how few people do. By writing out your goals, you prevent a random walk through life.
- You are taking on physical debt if you are not working out and eating right each day.
- You are what you read.
#Reading log
2024-01-03: Last fall I read 📚 The Almanack of Naval Ravikant and really enjoyed this “mini-biography” format that was focused on technology and the future. Now I saw that Eric Jorgenson had another similar book out on Balaji. I had no clue who Balaji was but I was interested in reading another book with personal thinking on technology. It was great.