23 Thought Provoking Ideas for August 2024

1,000,000 to 1 odds happen 8 times a day in New York City.

Future you has to live with the regrets of your decisions a lot longer than present you gets to enjoy them.

The first platform to let us choose our own algorithm won't win the next quarter, but it will win the next generation.

The Ice Cream Sandwich Hot Take: A hot take that shouldn't be hot. If it is someone has made a big mess.

“The best things in life are free. The second best things are very, very expensive.” ― Coco Chanel

For prostate, breast, colorectal, esophageal, and head/neck cancers, the survival benefit associated with marriage was larger than the published survival benefit of chemotherapy.

The skillset required in foraging for information and discerning from too much information are very different. Humans aren’t adapted for the latter.

Things that stress you at 20 can be dealt with at 30, are trivial at 40 and make you laugh at 50.

The Physics of Human Stress: Stress in objects is force divided by the surface area it is applied to. Stress in humans is force divided by the ability or skills you have to cope.

It’s not an adventure if everything is planned out, that is a to do list.

When you make something and put it out into the world there is part of it that doesn’t belong to you anymore.

"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened." - Winston Churchill

The Upgrade Assumption: When people imagine how things could be different, they almost always imagine how things could be better.

The craziness of most ideological beliefs are a feature, not a bug. Only crazy beliefs are a reliable enough signal that you are part of the tribe.

"The trouble with market research is that people don’t think what they feel, they don’t say what they think, and they don’t do what they say.” - David Ogilvy

No kid remembers their best day in front of the TV.

A secret to happiness is letting every situation be what it is, instead of what you think it should be.

Grief is love with nowhere to go.

Weekly trends in hospitalizations for depressive disorders, self harm and suicidal ideation are significantly higher during the school year.

The five levels of rich: Level 1 - No car. Level 2 - Cheap car. Level 3 - Range Rover. Level 4 - Ferrari. Level 5 - No car.

Preference Falsification: If people are afraid to say what they really think, they will instead lie. Therefore, punishing speech – whether by taking offence or by threatening censorship – is ultimately a request to be deceived. - Gurwinder Bhogal

The cold water doesn't get warmer if you jump late.

“Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for the mediocre. The level of competition is thus fiercest for “realistic” goals, paradoxically making them the most time and energy consuming.” - Tim Ferriss