Entropy, Compound and Game Theory

20250603 - 1 Optimize Your Life No, you cannot get me to work two hours just to buy that shirt! p11 It's natural to be thrifty if income is low. Many psychological studies have shown that spending money on experience makes us happier than spending money on things. p13 Why? It force us to pay attention to the moment. If we can pay attention to the moment all the time, then we stop living on autopilot. From big data training point of view, that means we will not treat daily activities as noise but real data. 20250604 - 2 Invest in Experiences The main idea here is that your life is the sum of your experiences. p22 It's wrong. Based on the book "Think, fast and slow", we only remember the peak points and the end. So we should not pay much attention to general experiences. I realized that you retire on your memories. p23 This is against "live in the moment", which doesn't rely on our memories. We don't need great memory to stay happy after retirement. By...

20250314 - Preface: Having It All Communication skills are very important. But itself alone doesn't guarantee success. Far from it. Acting in drama in college play could help a lot. We can learn how to observe others and ourselves, and how to present to people what you want to show them. 20250315 - Part 1: You Only Have Ten Seconds To Show You’re a Somebody The way you look and the way you move is more than 80 per cent of someone's first impression of you. Not one word need be spoken. p3 Correct! However, although the first 10 seconds is important, it's not critical. It just make things much eaiser. 20250315 - Chapter 1: The Flooding Smile Wait for a split of a second, to one second, before starting to smile. 20250315 - Chapter 2: Sticky Eyes 20250315 - Chapter 3: Epoxy Eyes 20250315 - Chapter 4: Hang by Your Teeth "Great posture, a heads-up look, a confident smile, and a direct gaze." The ideal image for somebody who's a Somebody. p19 20250315 - Chapter 5: Th...

20250106 - Farewell to humanity's childhood One instance I remember to have heard, where the person was to be brought home to possess a good Estate,; but finding some care necessary to keep it together, he relinquished it to a younger brother, reserving to himself nothing but a gun and match-Coat, with which he took his way again to the Wilderness. p20 What is real value to us? 20250111 - Wicked liberty The idea of competitive exams for government job applicants may come from China. The idea of "liberty, equality, fraternity" may come from indigenous American. This idea is weird, but possible. Europen thinkers normally say that their ideas came from Ancient Greece and Ancient Roman, but it seems that they didn't have "competitive exams" or "equality" until European visited China and Americas. Should we all embrace "baseline communism"? p47 It's actually individualism with basic support from government. The problem is, what should the ...