Entropy, Compound and Game Theory

20220524 - Part One At a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. p18 It's not fate, but our habits. When we are so used to our habits, we stopped explorering, reflecting and review, we don't change our habits anymore. We just repeat the daily activities again and again, not matter it's good, bad, or boring. "The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon." p34 How could this be possible? Observe and enjoy all details of life, and keep going forward to success? As he mused about these things, he realized that he had to choose between thinking of himself as the poor victim of a thief and as an adventurer in quest of his treasure. "I'm an adventurer, looking for treasure," he said to himself. p44 We need food, clothing, shelter and transportation. Then we can work hard to implement our dream. The boy said nothing...

20220517 - Introduction Good habits can fullfil our potential. External stimulus is important to impact our behavior, internal thoughts (consciouness), feelings (subconsciouness), and beliefs (perception, identity) are also important. The Fundamentals - Why Tiny Changes Make a Big Difference 20220517 - 1. The surprising power of Atomic Habits Most of the huge achievement are done through daily tiny improvements. The compound effect is the major reason behind the changes. It's hard to get good habit, because there is no noticable benefit in the near term; it's easy to get bad habit, because there is no noticable harm in the near term. This is the reason that I need one month to read a book . - correction: not true. There are too many cues of bad habits. You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results. p18 This explains that "Your position is not important, the important thing is your action.". Your outcomes are a lagging mea...

20220407 - Prologue : at the airport Why study traditional societies?; States; Types of traditional societies; Approaches, causes, and sources; A small book about a big subject Unification vs Diversity. Unification means higher productivity, but more fragile. However, the modern societies are getting more and more similar. Hospital, school, government, supermarket, cinema.......are almost same around the world. Is this good? Or inevitable? Globlization of manufacturing is a bad idea, as it make human civilization fragile. Then how about the other parts, such as polictical structure? Maybe the ideal society is highly unified, but offers abundant oppotunities to explore changes. The analysis of human behavior in bands and tribes helps us to understand our gene. We need to understand oursleve to push civilization forward. part. 1. Setting the stage by dividing space 20220411 - chapter 1. Friends, enemies, strangers, and traders Mutually exclusive territories; Non-exclusive land use; F...

20220302 - Foreword p. xi Our mind can change our brain? Why not? The famous double-slit experiment tells us that our mind can significantly change the result. Although the change is at photon/quantum level, but compound effect can surely caused huge changes. 20220302 - Introduction: The Greatest Habit You Can Ever Break Is the Habit of Being Yourself p. xv This is the book I am waiting for, which explain why Meditation works, and how. Is meditation just like other skill, such as playing violion, playing chess and doing cooking, then everyone can master it. PART I: The Science of You 20220307 - Chapter 1: The Quantum You p. 3 This world is full of mysteries. No matter, only energy wave? Quantum physics is amazing. But, is "observer effect" the root power of meditation? As the double-slit experiment shows, we don't have control of the changes. We should not allow external world to control our internal world (thinking/feeling). Instead, we expect the changes in our interna...

20220210 - Preface to the second edition We only have limited attention, so we should not waste our attention on minor issues. 20220210 - Prologue. The Paradox of Choice: A Road Map Choices sometimes are just distractions. They make us hard to tell what is important, what is not. PART I | WHEN WE CHOOSE 20220210 - Chapter 1. Let’s Go Shopping 9 The difference among alternative products could be meaningless, so they are just distractions. We need to understand what is important, what we really need. Then we can choose the right one. The First Principle. 20220211 - Chapter 2. New Choices 23 A majority of people want more control over the details of their lives, but a majority of people also want to simplify their lives. p25 Just like what Elon Musk told us, to learn fast, we need to fully understand the trunk of the knowledge true. Then we can quickly learn the branches and leaves. https://www.theladders.com/career-advice/elon-musks-2-rules-for-learning-anything-faster How to choose our ...

20220117 - Prologue "Why does reading the newspaper actually decrease your knowledge of the world?" p xxiii Wow! This may significantly decrease the time I wasted on news! "What you know cannot really hurt you." p xxiv Is this one of the reasons that we should read more? The reason that we should "think ahead, think hard"? PART ONE: UMBERTO ECO'S ANTILIBRARY, OR HOW WE SEEK VALIDATION 20220119 - Chapter 1 : The Apprenticeship of an Empirical Skepti "Berlin Diary:: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent, 1934-1941" definitely worth reading, together with "Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich". We can summize history, but we cannot do that in the stream of time. When GFC happened in 2008, I knew what was happening, but I had no clue before the outbreak. Same to the stock price. We normally know why the price went up or down yesterday, but we have no clue whether it would go up or down tomorrow. Everything is messy. There are too many fact...

20211207 - Prologue : a tale of two farms Two farms;Collapses, past and present;Vanished Edens?;A five-point framework;Businesses and the environment;The comparative method;Plan of the book 5-point framework: Environmental damage, climate change, hostile neighbors, friendly trade partners, and the society's response to its environmental problems. Local collapse is not likely to happen today. But economy decline is a huge threat. Can human survive from global warming? Can people keep international order? Can technology develop (such self-driving) fast enough to cover major threats? part. 1. Modern Montana 20211211 - 1. Under Montana's big sky Stan Falkow's story;Montana and me;Why begin with Montana?;Montana's economic history;Mining;Forests;Soil;Water;Native and non-native species;Differing visions;Attitudes towards regulation;Rick Laible's story;Chip Pigman's story;Tim Huls's story;John Cook's story;Montana, model of the world We should not follow our h...