What’s On The Other Side Of A Black Hole? - YouTube
Kobe on Failure
- failure does not exist
- play to learn and improve
- if you play with a fear of losing the pressure will be too much, or the will to win
- if you are in the center, you stay in the moment, stay connected with it
- stay dead center
- people are afraid of failure - how do you not? It doesn't exist, it's relative.
- happy endings
Kobe Bryant advice: Life is short
The Illusion of Money And Wealth
- one organism evokes one world
- another organism evokes another world
- remove your view of the world in its fixed sense
- truth cannot be pinned
- the world is whatever we want to make it
Double Slit experiment explained
- good explanation of double slit experiment
Wu Wei - The Principle Of Not Forcing
The Art of Not trying
- Those who stand on tiptoes do not stand firmly Those who rush ahead don't get very far Those who try to outshine others dim their own light - Lao Tzu
- Taoists believe that humans create deceptions to try and comprehend of the reality of the universe. It may help our understanding, but more so limits it.
Don't Try
- the burden of the future stops us performing in the present
- when there is nothing on the line, there is no anxiety
- when we are not worried about the outcome we are more immersed in the act itself
- wanting to win motivates us, but can also cripple us when it's an overburden.
- let the desire fade into the background, and focus what we can do in the moment
- the less we care about the result the less our minds will be troubled by them
Why Letting Go Is True Wealth | Minimalist Philosophy for Simple Living
Stop Trying to Get It And You'll Have It | The Backwards Law
- Stop wanting something so bad or it will continue to elude you
- Places too much stress on the mind to obsess over wanting something / desiring machines
Transformation: A Future History 2020 to 2050
- positive technological advances for next 30 years
- vs dystopian narrative last few years
- societal transformation - bigger boom in next 30 years than past 30 years
- 1% of people on internet in 1990
- Brian Eno's list of words that didn't exist 25 years ago
- politics matter
- Amara's law - overestimate the impact in short term and underestimate impact in long term
- 3 sectors for next long boom -> IT/Biotech/EnergyTech
- Kevin Kelly - 12 technologies that are inevitable
- next 30 years infotech stage 2 - get 2nd half of planet online
- ubiquitous ai
- genetic engineering
- photovoltaic cells for solar / cost
- growth of solar in general gigawatt out growing exponentially
- similar dynamic for electric vehicles
- electric car batteries will be cheaper than combustible engines soon
- progressive era in us from 1940s-1980s came after strong nationalist / authoritarian surge
- gen z and millennials share similar values
- 2040 millennials and gen z combined will be running most of the world - really interesting
- democratic lock for years to come due to cultural beliefs of younger generation
- wealth inequality over time -> highest ever since last great depression 1930 -> this will result in huge pushback and progressive era in general
- almost 0 climate denial in younger generation