27: Notes To Self

Yo, it’s Luke!

I’ve been seeing lots of live music recently. And man, it is so damn cool to see thousands of hours of practice on display.

That said, here is your weekly dose of 5 noteworthy ideas & things I learned about last week. Click on each link to dive further on that topic.

1. Fun With DALL·E

I’ve been having a blast playing around with this ChatGPT tool recently.

Imagine going down some internet rabbit holes in this room. Sheeeeesh!

2. Wild Fact About Atoms

There are about as many atoms in 6 grains of salt as there are grains of sand on all the beaches on Earth. Think about that for a sec!

Atoms are ridiculously small.

On top of that, most of the space inside of an atom is empty! Ridiculous.

3. NASA Is Too Nice With It (NASA)

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft passed Pluto in 2015 within one minute of what it predicted when it launched in 2006.

Three billion miles, 99.99998% accurate.

Math & space nerds ftw!

4. A Few Ways The World Works (Morgan Housel)

Lots of great points in this one (per usual with Morgan Housel). Some of my favorites:

• The big learning comes when you connect the dots from one field to the next. And once you do so, you realize those connections are infinite. It’s all just one big web. A big web of how the world works.

• The best way to learn how the world works is to realize how connected everything is. The big lessons from one field can often teach you something critical about other fields.

• “What have you experienced that I haven’t that makes you believe what you do? And would I think about the world like you do if I experienced what you have?” is a much better question than “Why don’t you agree with me?”

• Once you understand the basic principles of your profession, you might gain more expertise by reading around your field than within your field. Connecting dots between fields helps you uncover the most powerful forces that guide how the world works, which can be so much more important than a little new detail that’s specific to your profession.

• Money is more like a vaccine than a performance-enhancing drug. It can prevent a lot of misery, but it won’t necessarily make you happier.

5. Happiness Is A Choice (The Almanack of Naval Ravikant)

The mind is just as malleable as the body. We spend so much time and effort trying to change the external world, other people, and our own bodies — all while accepting ourselves the way we were programmed as youths.

We accept the voice in our head as the source of all truth. But all of it is malleable, and every day is new. Memory and identity are burdens from the past preventing us from living freely in the present.

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Cheers,

Luke

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