Weekly Highlights #3
A weekly round-up of things I found interesting, fun or useful.
📚 Books
If you’re going to predict the future, predict it where it won’t hurt you.
What you should avoid is unnecessary dependence on large-scale harmful predictions-those and only those. Avoid the big subjects that may hurt your future: be fooled in small matters, not in the large. Do not listen to economic forecasters or to predictors in social sciences (they are mere entertainers), but do make your own forecast for the picnic. By all means, demand certainty for the next picnic; but avoid government social security forecasts for the year 2040. Know how to rank beliefs not according to their plausibility but by the harm they may cause.
Nassim N Taleb
📜 Articles
Some great frameworks for making better decisions, not just in investing in this article.
I found this article fascinating and confirmed why I don’t read or watch traditional news. Social media has exacerbated misinformation and its staggering how little due diligence people do when it comes to the information they consume, and more worryingly, share.
🎬Video
How to stay hydrated: 240ml of fluid per hour for the first 10 hours since waking + 2ml of water per kg every 15-20 when exercising.
For me this would equate to having just over 3L of water/fluid a day and doesn’t account for the few hours that’s left at the end of the day after the gym. That’s a lot of 💧
💠Quotes
A great man is hard on himself; a small man is hard on others
- Confucius
We forget to philosophize when under strain
- Nassim N Taleb