Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- VDH: The Democratic Chicken - or the Socialist Egg? He's not wrong.

- Matt Ridley: The forecaster's paradox.

- Barry Melrose - a remembrance. Worth a watch.

- Dan Wetzel on the LSU and SEC rift.

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"A friend on the Times said he didn't mind the nightmares so much so much as the waking impulse to file on them." - Michael Herr 

"History never repeats itself, man always does." - Voltaire

"Innovation comes from questioning the way things have been done before." - Elon Musk

"But I will accept any rules you feel necessary for your freedom. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them, if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do." - Robert Heinlein

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"Innovation involves anticipation. It is having a broad base of knowledge on your subject and an ability to see where the end game is headed." - Bill Walsh

"You can't connect the dots looking forward; you must connect them looking backwards." - Steve Jobs

"You don't work n the NFL. You live in the NFL." - Al Davis

"Time is the friend of someone who is properly positioned and the enemy of someone poorly positioned." - Shane Parrish

Quotes for Today

 Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"Don't worry about experiencing difficulties with math, I can assure you that my own problems are even more serious!" - Albert Einstein 

"Our culture is foolish to keep science and poetry separated: they are two tools to open our eyes to the complexity and beauty of the world." - Carlo Rovelli 

"Innovation is the source of all prosperity." - Matt Ridley

"The three components of independent-mindedness work in concert: fastidiousness about truth and resistance to being told what to think leave space in your brain, and curiosity finds new ideas to fill it." - Paul Graham 

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"Innovation comes from questioning the way things have been done before." - Elon Musk

"You find out the necessity of Liberty as you find out the necessity of air - by not having enough of it, and gasping." - G.K. Chesterton

"The spike protein is probably one of the most toxic proteins the human body has ever seen." - Dr. Paul Marik

"It may seem difficult at first but everything is difficult at first." - Miyamoto Musashi

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

 "The most serious problem facing any organization is the one that cannot be discussed." - Marc Andreessen 

"The assumption that spending more of the taxpayers' money will make things better has survived all kinds of evidence that it has made things worse." - Thomas Sowell

"Each man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds." - Mark Twain

"Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors, and thieves." - Marcus Tullius Cicero

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"Innovation occurs when ripe seeds fall on fertile ground." - Walter Isaacson

"A new idea come suddenly and in a rather intuitive way, but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience." - Albert Einstein

"A physicist is one who's concerned with the truth. An engineer is one who's concerned with getting the job done ." - J. Presper Eckert

"Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original you will have to ram it down their throats." - Howard Aiken

How to Rev Up Innovation

Matt Ridley's article is geared towards the UK but the principal it true for all free counties.

As Lord Ridley states, "Innovation is the source of all prosperity." And as he emphasizes, "One of the key elements that is required for innovation to flourish is freedom." That underscores how voluntarily giving up your freedoms through censorship, vaccine mandates and other way is not just morally wrong but in the end also economically damaging. 

More Linky Links

More stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Matt Ridley: The "experts" thought it was a lab leak from the start. (By the way "volte face" means "about face" or turn 180 degrees - my 4 years of Latin finally pay off!)

- Matt Clancy: Is entrepreneurship a learned social trait? 

- There's a reason Democrat Party controlled teacher's unions and universities want to downplay or outright change the facts of our history.

- Heh heh - prodigal son kicked back out after old Tweets surface.

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Morgan Housel: Big Lessons from the Last Year

- 10 Types of Innovation

- MLB Bans Red Caps as Symbol of Hate

- VDH: Optimism Inc.

More Linky Links

More stuff I found interesting or amusing.

- Can happiness be learned? I think so.

- Matt Ridley on China and India and innovation. Freedom is the not-so secret sauce. 

- It's All Just Displacement. Interesting read. "The vast majority of the country is not woke, including the vast majority of women and people of color. How could it possibly be healthy for the entire media industry to be captured by any single niche political movement, let alone one that nobody likes?" Interesting question.

- Well done explanation of NFT's - and why they're good!

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Steven Pressfield: Pike decides to die

- The Appalachian Trail in less than 5 minutes.

- Heh Heh

- We are definitely getting closer to electric aircraft. You can get more info on Joby Aviation here.  

- Free Knowledge and Innovation. Big believer that access to libraries have many benefits that are hard to measure (even in the age of the Internet).

Linky Links

 Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- 10 incredible travel experiences according to Lonely Planet

- Read and sign the Great Barrington Declaration. They call it Focused Protection - I call it common sense.

- Amazon thoroughly wrecks narrative about lockdowns being necessary.

- Steven Pressfield: The Unlived Life

- Matt Ridley: How Innovation Works for the Environment. Amen!

- Interesting history of the shirt loop

Farnam Street Knowledge

 

- The Spacing Effect: How to Improve Learning and Maximize Retention

- James Cash Penney and the Golden Rule. Some very good life advice.

- The Ingredients for Innovation

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- India clashes with China. Part of me wonders if India may be making a play for China's pharmaceutical business.

- Kevin Kelly offers 68 pieces of advice on his 68th birthday. Good stuff.

- Not a fan of Aaron Rogers but this stat does make me feel bad for him.

- How to build a breakthrough - the secret of Backcasting. "The future doesn't happen to us; it happens because of us."