Pages matching path './*' money Unit of Account Feynman Techniques (for learning and thinking) Neuroanatomy of ADHD Journalism outlets use opinion/ideology to pander and secure subscriptions Literature Notes Index Sleep/wake cycle Nocturnal predators can see while their prey cannot Sleepiness is the result of two bio-oscillations overlapping Justice IS and requires the monopoly on violence Reading computer code activates a wide network in the brain Keep Your Knife Sharp - Build focus, concentration, dedication. Humans have an inner lawyer, not scientist Sequential ultralearning projects create a virtuous cycle Do metalearning research before and during the ultralearning project Avoid diminishing returns on continuous metalearning research Keep up with metalearning throughout the ultralearning project Follow the metalearning research 10% rule Use Emphasize/Exclude in metalearning research Benchmark your ultralearning project. The three components of an ultralearning target Break down metalearning research by asking three questions Ritualize workday shutdown A ritualized shut-down secures your evening Evening work is bound to be low-value Downtime recharges mental resources Downtime aids insight The value of Downtime to Deep Work Effective work towards a goal requires encouragement in the moment that the goal is being serviced Create an Accountability Cadence Keep a Compelling Scoreboard Act on Lead Measures Focus on the Wildly Important Consider honoring deep work with a grand gesture Determine ahead of time how you’ll run your deep work session Support the deep work session Set deep work session time/place parameters Journalist Philosophy of Deep Work Willpower and Concentration are finite resources Rhythmic Philosophy of Deep Work Bimodal Philosophy of Deep Work Deep Work approaches Ritualize Deep Work Monastic Philosophy of Deep Work Deep Work Rule # 1 - Work Deeply What animates the various political archetypes We should practice Critical Feeling the New York Times was taken over by permanent adolescents Lack of growth breaks the nation The parties fail to reach consensus on landmark legislation Current American politics is designed to disappoint the American people The duopoly works well together to insure competition is kept out The duopoly's true target customers are not the American people In a duopoly, you don't get to choose what you'd LIKE The duopoly can ignore the American people The duopoly doesn't compete for voters The duopoly co-opted the media. The duopoly hoards resources The five key inputs to political competition Elections are rigged against competition The political duopoly doesn't address customer complaints Most Americans are unhappy with the services rendered by the government. American politics hosts as massively-lucrative industrial duopoly The Political-Industrial Complex is massively lucrative Political Industrial Complex Founding fathers dreaded partisanship The bipartisan actors created the rules to their own game the political machine is not a public institution The Populace Isn't Committed to Non-Partisan Political Reform The Political Parties Exist To Fight Eachother Five Forces of Competitiveness Cro-Mags in Europe Wiped Out Neanderthals Language Seems To Have Been the Catalyst to Sapiens' Modernity Humans of 50,000 Years Ago Were 'Modern' Homo Sapiens Diverged from Homo Erectus Half a Million Years Ago The Beginning of Tool Use in Homo Erectus Protohumans Appeared 4 Million Years Ago African Apes Split Up 7 Million Years Ago Homo Sapiens Starting Line Rent Seeking Scarcity Creates Intra-Group Hostility Coronal Mass Ejections / Solar Storms Direct Exchange / Barter Easy money trap Electrical Grid’s Susceptibility to EMP and solar storms Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster Iago Media Invisible Primary libraries-catalog-information-for-relevance-not-profit meta Hardness of money The risk of nuclear power plant meltdown in the case of a power failure nuclear power plants Salability Significant solar storm events sources Store of Value The Geek is a Visionary Transformers (electrical grid component) Note: To override the auto-generated content here, create a file named one of: literature-notes.md, literature-notes.org