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Book: 20260910 to 20260923, "The Utopia of Rules" by David Graeber

  20260910 - Introduction 3 Von Mises argued that as a result, the social welfare states then emerging in places like France or England, let alone Denmark or Sweden, would, within a generation or two, inevitably lead to fascism. p8 What is the root cause of bureaucracy? Elon Musk once said that if you give yourself three hours to clean your room, it will take three hours. If you only give yourself ten minutes, then ten minutes will be enough. This can be considered a form of personal bureaucracy. Do corporate employees care about the fate of the company? They do not. They care more about their salaries and bonuses. Managers have one more concern: how much power they possess. Do corporate shareholders care about the fate of the company? They do not. They care more about whether they can secure lucrative returns. Do customers care about the fate of the company? They do not. Does the government care about the fate of the company? It does not. Thanks to the Wealth of Nations...
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Book: 20260829 to 20260902, "The Myth of Sisyphus" by Albert Camus

  20260829 - THE MYTH OF SISYPHUS - 1 20260829 - Chapter 1 - An Absurd Reasoning - 3 Absurdity and Suicide Absurd Walls Philosophical Suicide Absurd Freedom The world is absurd. There is no meaning. But we don't live because it's meaningful, or because that's correct choice. We live to enjoy and have fun. At least, we expect to get some fun in the future. Religion is critical here. Can we just use the enjoyment from screens to comfort ourselves? Not likely. Happiness is more about the future, not the moment. We need to tell our genes that they will thrive. 20260901 - Chapter 2 - The Absurd Man - 66 Don Juanism Drama Conquest 20260902 - Chapter 3 - Absurd Creation - 93 Philosophy and Fiction "Art and nothing but art, "said Niezsche; "we have art in order not to die of the truth." p93 We can get real pleasure out of art. Art shows the pattern of the big data of the real world. Movie, music, and even computer games are the form of art. ...
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Book: 20260815 to 20260830, "The 5 Types of Wealth" by Sahil Bloom

  20260815 - Prologue: The Journey of a Lifetime Never let the quest for more distract you from the beauty of enough . p13 Designing Your Dream Life 20260815 - 1. One Thousand Years of Wisdom: What Advice Would You Give to Your Younger Self? 20260815 - 2. The Five Types of Wealth What did Buddha feel about his parents? 20260815 - 3. The Wealth Score 20260816 - 4. The Life Razor: Keeping the Earth in the Window My life razor: I am the one who is aware of my ego. 20260816 - 5. Your True North: Climbing the Right Mountain Time Wealth 20260820 - 6. The Big Question: How Many Moments Do You Have Remaining with Your Loved Ones? 20260820 - 7. A Brief History of Time 20260821 - 8. The Three Pillars of Time Wealth 20260821 - 9. The Time Wealth Guide: Systems for Success Flint replied that he would work on those whenever he had free time. Buffett shook his head and replied that everything Flint hadn't circled should become his avoid at All Costs List. p91 I don't think p...
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Book: 20260828 to 20260906, "1177 B.C." by Eric H. Cline

  20260828 - PROLOGUE 20260829 - The Collapse of Civilizations: 1177 BC 1 attacked the city of Babylon in 1595 BC, burning it to the ground and ending the two-hundred-year-old dynasty made famous by Hammurabi "the Law-Giver."p33 Troy and the Trojan War - happened at around 1250 BC. p36 It's around 400 years between them. 20260829 - CHAPTER ONE Act I. Of Arms and the Man: The Fifteenth Century BC 14 20260829 - CHAPTER TWO Act II. An (Aegean) Affair to Remember: The Fourteenth Century BC 41 All same, just at smaller scale, and at slower pace. Politics are there even in a tribe of chimpanzees. This means, it's quite easy for AI to understand human, and other animals or plants. 20260831 - CHAPTER THREE Act III. Fighting for Gods and Country: The Thirteenth Century BC 69 20260901 - CHAPTER FOUR Act IV. The End of an Era: The Twelfth Century BC 102 No doubt that "culture" is critical in those changes, including the noble's corruptions/collapse. Un...
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Book: 20260819 to 20260831, "Fooled by Randomness" by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  20260819 - Prologue 1 20260819 - PART I: SOLON'S WARNING - SKEWNESS, ASYMMETRY, INDUCTION 9 20260819 - One: If You're So Rich Why Aren't You So Smart? 13 Mild success can be explainable by skills and labour. Wild success is attributable to variance. p12 No really. Wild success is attributable to skills and labour and variance. Rich and solid rich is quite different. 20260819 - Two: A Bizarre Accounting Method 28 How can I remind myself of the potential risk? Which part of my perception is illusion? 20260820 - Three: A Mathematical Meditation on History 46 My models showed that ultimately almost nobody really survived; bears dropped out like flies in the rally and bulls ended up being slaughtered, as paper profits vanished when the music stopped. But there was one exception; some of those who traded options had remarkable staying power and I wanted to be one of those. p50 I think Mr Taleb must used leverage. The risk is much lower if no leverage, and close to ze...
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Book: 20260808 to 20260825, "A New Earth" by Eckhart Tolle

  20260808 - Chapter One The Flowering of Human Consciousness - 1 It's surprise that Eckhart Tolle got almost everything wrong, when they are related to science. No doubt he has perfect control of his mind(consciousness), but he is not humble in front of science. There are a lot of things that science itself cannot handle properly, so far. We still need to learn to live in the moment. 20260809 - Chapter Two Ego: The Current State of Humanity - 25 Ego is our major obstacle. At that stage, some children refer to themselves in the third person. "Johnny is hungry." p28 Can I play this trick? If I use my name to replace "I" in thinking, then the real "I" is behind my thoughts. If I notice the difference between these two all the time, then it will be much easier to prevent myself been controlled by emotion or subconsciousness. The ego isn't wrong; it's just unconscious. p42 The ultimate boss is not the ego, but "I". How can I sto...
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Book: 20260722 to 20260825, "Scale" by Geoffrey West

  20260724 - The Big Picture When the size is increased, the "cost" per unit and the "production" per unit are also changed. The cost(consumption) is getting lower, and the production is getting higher. Here, the production doesn't always mean good things. It could be something like crime rate. There are a lot of factors affect those changes. When we remove a factor as bottleneck, another factor will become the bottleneck. This is astounding. What is changing? New inventions such as solar panel, lithium batter, computer, EV, AI, robots, autonomous driving, smartphone, Internet, Starlink, etc. A lot of limitations will disappear, and then many new bottlenecks will pop up. No matter what, cities will become bigger and bigger. The living cost will be lower, and the average income will be higher. Will this rapid growth of scale make cities more fragile? No. Distributed energy(solar panel and lithium battery) and distributed intelligence(local AI) make each ...
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