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52: Notes To Self
Cheap Renewable Energy, Martha Stewart, Awareness of Judgement, The Real Reason People Should Vote, Badass Bird
Luke Clancy
November 22, 2024
Yo, it’s Luke!
Hope you and your family are doing well :)
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.
Here’s some good news for this fine Friday morning:
The amount of global renewal energy capacity each year keeps blows the long-term predictions out of the water.
2. Martha Stewart Is A Badass
Most people know Martha Stewart as a cookbook writer and influencer. Recently, I learned she’s a dawg:
Started out as a model
Got hired as a stock broker (with no relevant training) and made the 2024 equivalent of $1M/yr.
Then, moved out of NYC and started a big catering business.
That lead to her cookbook, which she sold over 660,000 copies of.
Then she launched her own lifestyle magazine, Martha Stewart Living. 9 years later, it went public — making her the first self-made female billionaire in the United States.
After that, she got caught suspiciously selling some random stocks. Got investigated for insider trading. Was acquitted, but then put in jail because she lied about a different thing while being interrogated.
After jail, she kept building her media empire (and was even on Justin Bieber’s roast).
Pretty crazy. Put some respect on Martha’s name!
3. Awareness of Judgement (Luke’s Thoughts)
Genuinely, one of the most useful ways of life / habits I’ve adopted recently.
building awareness to recognize the moment where you don't like something and then asking yourself "what do i not understand about it yet?" is a very powerful thing
— luke clancy (@luke_clancy1)
9:01 PM • Nov 15, 2024
4. The Real Reason Young People Should Vote (Emmett Shear)
Basically, you vote primarily to influence future elections, not to influence the current election.
And the only way you have power is you make it clear that your vote always needs to be earned — which means consistently voting, but having that vote vary based on your standards.
The point of voting is that it influences future elections via how politicians estimate relative faction strength, not that it influences the current election. You are adding 1 unit of strength to your faction via voting, because politicians make decisions about courting groups.
— Emmett Shear (@eshear)
10:00 PM • Nov 5, 2024
5. The Motto
It’s time to get after it.
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Cheers,