Weekly Highlights #14
A weekly round-up of things I found interesting, fun or useful.
📚 Books
From Principles by Ray Dalio:
"Distinguish between you as the designer of your machine and you as a worker with your machine. One of the hardest things for people to do is to objectively look down on themselves within their circumstances (i.e., their machine) so that they can act as the machine's designer and manager. Most people remain stuck in the perspective of being a worker within the machine. If you can recognize the differences between those roles and that it is much more important that you are a good designer/manager of your life than a good worker in it, you will be on the right path. To be successful, the “designer/manager you" has to be objective about what the "worker you" is really like, not believing in him more than he deserves, or putting him in jobs he shouldn't be in. Instead of having this strategic perspective, most people operate emotionally and in the moment; their lives are a series of undirected emotional experiences, going from one thing to the next. If you want to look back on your life and feel you've achieved what you wanted to, you can't operate that way."
📜 Articles
I enjoyed this article from the Stoic Gym and who doesn’t love shortcuts?
🎧 Podcasts
Ryan Holiday discusses the origins of notebooks and what the term freedom really means.
💭 Quotes
"It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into."
- Robert B. Cialdini
"The men who pioneered the old routes are leaders, not masters. Truth lies open to everyone. There has yet to be a monopoly of truth. And there is plenty of it left for future generations too."
- Seneca
“I think the reason why we got into such idiocy in investment management is best illustrated by a story that I tell about the guy who sold fishing tackle. I asked him, “My god, they're purple and green. Do fish really take these lures?” And he said, “Mister, I don't sell to fish.”
-Charles T. Munger
❓ Questions
1. What’s been your favourite book, article or podcast of the year so far? Comment below.
Until next time, Karl (The School of Knowledge.)
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