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20240204 - Chapter 1: LOVING TO LEARN 20240204 - Chapter 2: SCIENCE IS MY PLAYGROUND Another Genius.Compare him to Elon Musk, Carl Sagan and Richard Feynman, what's the difference? Not much. They have very high IQ, broad interest, good enough luck, and all can focus on study and work for long time. They are all happy to take risk, but at the same time be careful of not taking too much risk. Surely there are many people with similar high IQ, but most of them did nothing distingushable in the end. Life is harder dozens of years ago. It's quite difficult for most of young people to afford the cost of college, or learn by themselves. These days, thanks for the social welfare system and Internet, it's not obstacles anymore. However, there are also way less distractions. Are we going to have more genius which can push human perception boundary further? 20240220 - Chapter 3: PHYSICS AND MATHEMATICS Bad luck quite often is just "a blessing in disguise". If we spend time w...

PART 1 20231223 - Chapter 1 20231223 - Chapter 2 Just like "Animal Farm", "1984" use "Time" and psychology as a powerful tool to describe the fictional world. This make it better than "The brave new world" and "Fahrenheit 451" 20231226 - Chapter 3 20231226 - Chapter 4 George Orwell didn't mention much the low productivity caused by unfair institutions. When government officials are under great pressure and have indisputable power, they would try their best to avoid mistakes, and not be so interested in creating value. The result is GDP per capita may grow very slowly or even drop. This is based on game theory. Together with compound effect, the whole country is doomed. 20231226 - Chapter 5 Comrade Ogilvy reminds me of "Lei Feng" from China. It's against our gene to sacrifice ourselves for long time to help others. So this kind of propaganda is destined to fail. 20240209 - Chapter 6 20240210 - Chapter 7 20240210 - Chapt...