Weekend Reads

This Week on the Lindy Newsletter

I wrote about my brief experiment taking a new fat-loss drug. Half of Americans are obese or overweight. The number isn't going down.

We live in a hyper-artificial environment. Is the only way out a non-lindy drug to tackle a non-lindy problem?

Weekend Reads

Nassim Taleb is interviewed about Crypto and Conspiracy theories. Sometimes the mainstream consensus is smarter than the alternative viewpoint, sometimes it's worse. I think individuals have to make a decision for themselves.

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It’s been a mystery why Roman concrete often lasted thousands of years, but ours decays in mere decades. Turns out they incorporated chemicals in a process that induces self-healing; scientists at MIT just figured this all out - in 2022.

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One of the least reported aspects of the January invasion of Congress by Trump loyalists is that there was a concerted effort to sideline Trump and remove him from power during his presidency. Not much is written about this time. But it's clear, he had the title of President, but no authority.

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Ever read interest rates rising, companies will be judged on revenue. It's crucial to understand the differences between these financial concepts, they provide insight into the financial performance and health of a company.

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One of the defining characteristics of the modern world is the ubiquity of steel. Nearly every product of industrial civilization relies on steel, either as a component or as part of the equipment used to produce it. Without it, Vaclav Smil notes in “Still the Iron Age”, modern life would largely be impossible:

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I remember getting my Drivers License at 16, dating at 16 and drinking. However, today it seems like there is an extension of adolescence. "There have been many psychological profiles of “late adulthood,” common among those born from the 1990s onward. Many of the milestones — getting a driver’s license, moving out, dating, starting work, and so on — have been delayed for many young adults. The trend became obvious starting in the 2010s. In 2019, it was compiled in a comprehensive study titled The Decline in Adult Activities Among U.S. Adolescents, 1976-2016."

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Harvard Business Review: a publication, written by 12HL people, for 12HL people, who will manage 4HL people. The case studies seem particularly “off” in their affect: https://hbr.org/2023/01/case-study-should-some-employees-be-allowed-to-work-remotely-even-if-others-cant

A fun website to play around with that shows population and terrain.

How much do people really make from Youtube? The transparency of this is really amazing.

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An interesting question.

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I've uploaded some of my classic posts.

1) Is Culture Stuck?

2) What is the 4-Hour Life and the Consistency Space?

3) What is the Refinement Culture

4) The Asymmetry of Breakups

5) Much More....

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