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Linky Links

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

- A takeover of the IPCC. "When an assessment is taken over to serve politics it ceases to be an assessment and turns into something else."

- From the archives: Paul Graham on how to think for yourself.

- Former Red Sox TV voice Don Orsillo is ranked first among MLB's broadcast teams. Letting Orsillo go was a Mookie Betts type mistake.

- The walls are closing in on Adam Schiff and he knows it. Love that they used that phrase in the headline.

On the Ability to Think

More Linky Links

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

- Morgan Housel: What a World (a few stories).

- From the archives: Secord-order Thinking: What smart people use to outperform.

- Matt Taibbi with an open letter to the Columbia Journalism Review. He's got the receipts.

- Best libraries of the world. It's like a bucket list! (HT Execupundit)

More Linky Links

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

- Glenn Reynolds: How Trump is bursting the bureaucrat's DC bubble. Yes!

- From the archives: The OODA Loop - How fighter pilots make fast and accurate decisions.

- Gunman targeting NFL apparently went to the wrong floor.

- Lockheed reportedly has something "magical" up its sleeve. Admit my first thought was alien technology.

More Linky Links

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

- Interesting: Ferrari Status

- How Obama Administration turned "unverifiable" report into Russiagate dynamite. I hope people get jail time over this. (HT Execupundit)

- Farnum Street: What is first principles thinking?

- The Democrats just committed the ultimate self-own.

Sam Altman on Thinking Independently

Linky Links

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

- SBA institutes new measures to prevent fraud and waste from illegals, children, and the dead. All thanks to information uncovered by DOGE. Most Americans say, "Wait - you weren't doing this already?"

- With all the news about tariffs the new tolls being applied to Chinese shipping may have just as big ramifications. They even apply to firms with just one ship being built in China. Think this will be used as leverage in upcoming tariffs talks.

- Amphibian Love Songs. That would also be a good name for a band. (HT Recommendo)

- From the archives: Paul Graham on the Need to Read.

Quotes for Today

Some quotes that I hope may resonate with you.

"There is a choice you have to make, in everything you have to do. So keep in mind that in the end, the choice you make, makes you." - John Wooden

"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." - George Orwell

"The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think." - Albert Einstein

"If you want to have good ideas, you must have many ideas." - Linus Pauling

How to Keep an Open Mind

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"Physics does not care about hurt feelings. It cares about whether you got the rocket right." - Elon Musk

"If we are all thinking alike then no one is thinking." - Bill Walsh

"All bookshops are full of stories, and stories want to be heard." - Jen Campbell

"Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." - John Donne

Linky Links

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

- The Dublin Longevity Declaration. Just look at some of the signatories. Think this may be the future.

- Who knew? (HT The View from Lady Lake)

- I can remember Democrats crowing about how "walls don't work" or are too expensive.

- The 9 elements of multi-displinary thinking

Truth

HT Some It's Just as Well

Three Flaws of Our Thinking Brain

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Quotes for Today

 Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use." - Soren Kierkegaard

"Silence is a lesson learned through life's many sufferings." - Seneca

"How quickly you unlearn what you think you know often determines how far you go. A lot of adults think they know the answer so when the world tells them they're wrong, they dismiss it. And that is the moment they stop getting better." - Shane Parrish

"But because I believe that the reward for discipline is greater than its immediate objective, I would not have you think that discipline without objective is possible: in its nature discipline involved the subjection of the soul to some perhaps minor end, and that end must be real." Robert Oppenheimer

Where are You on the Graph?

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Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

 "There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob." - Ayn Rand

"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it." - Henry Ford

"The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another." - William James

"Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulties lies opportunity." - Albert Einstein

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"First off, I am 36 years old, I am divorced, and I live in a van down by the river." - Motivational Speaker Matt Foley

"Research is to see what everyone else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought." - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

"A genius is the one most like himself." - Thelonious Monk

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will." - Marcus Smart

Farnam Street Knowledge

 

Avoiding Bad Decisions.

Be honest with yourself and make good decisions. That is the way.

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"Outrage-generating clickbait is the natural resource extraction of journalism." - Paul Graham

"I like the libertarian view, which is to leave everyone alone. Even as a kid, I was annoyed by people who wanted to tell everyone how to live." - Clint Eastwood

"The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts." - Marcus Aurelius

"This is a wonderful day. I've never seen this one before." - Maya Angelou