Saturday, January 07, 2017
Curmudgeonly & Skeptical presents Boned Jello
Curmudgeonly & Skeptical presents Boned Jello
EXCELLENT KETTER FROM A BLACK WOMAN ON 2008 ELECTION WRITTEN NOV 6, 2008
EXCELLENT KETTER FROM A BLACK WOMAN ON 2008 ELECTION WRITTEN NOV 6, 2008
Wednesday, January 04, 2017
10 Times When Less Is More - Altucher Confidential
10 Times When Less Is More - Altucher Confidential: The MAXIMUM you need to learn to be good at 99% of things in life:
Math: basic probability and statistics that you can do in your head. For instance, know that 1/3 of 10,000 is 3,333 (roughly).
English: Learn how to read. Because later you might like reading and reading will make you a better writer.
Note that whenever you read a book, you might remember 1-2% of it. If you read lots of books that will add up. But no pressure to remember more.
History: A two page outline of the history of the planet. Because all the books are biased.
And then later they get rewritten.
Much later in life you might want to, for fun, explore those biases and read books about it.
Three good history books I think are worth reading:
“Sapiens”�by Yuval Noah Harari
“The Evolution of Everything” by Matt Ridley
“Wonderland” by Steve Johnson
Science: Nothing. You don’t even really need to know that the Earth is flat. If you want to be a scientist then learn more science.
Sometimes science is fun. I like reading science fiction.
Art: I don’t know. I never learned art. I’m only starting to appreciate it and read about it now. I’m 48.
In the past few weeks I went to The Broad museum in LA and The Whitney in NYC. Fascinating!
So now I am reading books to learn more. But I’ve never learned about art before because I had no interest.
If you try to teach people with no interest, they won’t learn.
To this day, at every conference I speak at, nobody can tell me the birthdate of Charlemagne within 500 years.
Go ahead, guess right now!
Math: basic probability and statistics that you can do in your head. For instance, know that 1/3 of 10,000 is 3,333 (roughly).
English: Learn how to read. Because later you might like reading and reading will make you a better writer.
Note that whenever you read a book, you might remember 1-2% of it. If you read lots of books that will add up. But no pressure to remember more.
History: A two page outline of the history of the planet. Because all the books are biased.
And then later they get rewritten.
Much later in life you might want to, for fun, explore those biases and read books about it.
Three good history books I think are worth reading:
“Sapiens”�by Yuval Noah Harari
“The Evolution of Everything” by Matt Ridley
“Wonderland” by Steve Johnson
Science: Nothing. You don’t even really need to know that the Earth is flat. If you want to be a scientist then learn more science.
Sometimes science is fun. I like reading science fiction.
Art: I don’t know. I never learned art. I’m only starting to appreciate it and read about it now. I’m 48.
In the past few weeks I went to The Broad museum in LA and The Whitney in NYC. Fascinating!
So now I am reading books to learn more. But I’ve never learned about art before because I had no interest.
If you try to teach people with no interest, they won’t learn.
To this day, at every conference I speak at, nobody can tell me the birthdate of Charlemagne within 500 years.
Go ahead, guess right now!
Tuesday, January 03, 2017
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