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2020-12-09

  • ☀️Daily Log:
    • Have a call as a reference for Mak
      • Went well it seemed
    • #article Satire on New York Times Best Seller Business Book
      • Source: https://dubeyaayush07.github.io/deliberate-mistakes/new-york-times-best-seller-business-book/
      • Boiled down the typical advices these books contain
        • What is better than being an contrarian? A contrarian contrarian - an inverse of an inverse is the same thing so buy my book that everyone else is also reading
        • Do what you want, quit your job
        • Correlation == causation
        • Confirmation bias
        • Using my successful life as the primary example of why everything I am recommending is true
    • #article Bathroom Reading
    • #article Complete Guide to Effective Reading
      • Source: https://maartenvandoorn.nl/reading-guide/
        • Two steps to learning: read/listen the information then process/recall the information
          • Transferring information from short term memory to long term memory
        • Build knowledge like a tree - which is why slip boxes are useful
          • Connecting the dots with existing material
        • The goal of reading should be creating new mental models, which is a representation of how to perceive the world, so the most appropriate model can be applied to the most useful situations
        • #quotes "When we read, another person thinks for us: we merely repeat his mental process" - Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Retrospective::
    • One week ago: [[December 2nd, 2020]]
    • One month ago: [[November 9th, 2020]]
    • One quarter ago: [[September 9th, 2020]]
    • One year ago: [[December 9th, 2019]]
  • Daily Stoic::
    • Time is the most valuable asset that we have, but instead of protecting it fiercely like money or property - we give it away freely