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20220809 - Do tough times make for tougher people? This is a wrong question. Tough time make people focusing on short term benefit. That give gene higher chance to survive. But huge improvement needs accumulation of knowledge, which needs comfortable environment. If there is no enough food, or always under stress, people cannot spend much time in exploring environment. In tough time, there is less large scale cooperation, which lowered the social productivity. People cannot find science theory in battlefield. Almost all books were written by authors who don't need to worry about food. Or else, the authors would spend more time searching for food, instead of writing a book. Yes, tough times make for tougher people. But tough time is always bad to human being. If German before WW2 has enough food, I doubt many of them would support large scale war. 20220814 - Suffer the children How much did poor childhood environment affect the societies of the past? p16 When we compare Afghanistan ...

20220529 - BOOK 1: INTRODUCTION - The Less Obvious Aspects of Skin in the Game 20220530 - Prologue, Part 1: Antaeus Whacked If almost everything is complicated system, it's hard to do anything to intervene. Save a life today may leads to 1000 unnecessary death 10 years later. What should we do to help then? Taleb suggest, only the one who take risk should make decision. The problem is, many groups in the same countries take different risks. If there is no speech freedom and education system, like North Korea, what can other countries do to help? Everything would get frozen, and there would be no progress. By the way, this is maybe the explanation of the Fermi paradox. :-) You will never fully convince someone that he is wrong; only reality(survival) can. p14 Skin in the Game doesn't guarantee success, but it efficiently let the ones who make wrong choices die out. Then, how to let employees work hard? This is what Tesla did: let...