Why read

 the ability to consume info, retain it, and then form a persuasive opinion + narrative around the info.

Sustenance

 Lily fields

amongst

rice fields

Models

 Rubik cube on a plane

Why systems fail

Articulation

When you get communication feedback, rewind and understand why others said that.

1. Have you answered the question?

2. To answer the question first? Or provide the punchline (If there is no time). Reasoning or walkthrough of your reasoning. Here are some book-summary of Sapiens by James Clear in italics.

• To describe how something happened means to reconstruct the series of specific events that led from one point to another.
• To describe why something happened means to find causal connections that led to this particular series of events to the exclusion of all others.
• Can you tell the difference between the two?

Summarise points when you are shifting to a different concept. This ensures that the person you are talking to is on the same page as you at certain intervals. Summarisation is also a way to move from the specifics to a broader general statements. Think going up the pyramid.

If you are any bit interested in trying to predict the future or history then remember this from the notes:

• The deeper your knowledge of a particular area of history, the harder it becomes to explain why one particular outcome occurred and not another.
• It is an inevitable rule of history that what seems obvious in hindsight is impossible to predict beforehand.

When you find yourself repeating sometimes, probably something is not making sense and you are still trying to piece that. Preface it with this.

Palantir

 Reflections on Palantir

Lessons from Peter Thiel

Your Manual

 When in Doubt

ponder this

 

Modern Chinese Beginner's Course

While looking for a book, came across this Modern Chinese Beginner's Course book. It is easy to follow an dbuilds up sentences slowly to introduce your family members and their occupation.

Introverts and memory

 The science behind why introverts struggle to speak

The Big Leap Zone of Genius

Left handedness

 NFL leftie Steve Young

Trader Joe’s founder Joe Coulombe was left-handed

Knick Knacks

 The clouds on the blue were lighter in color with a grey sheen compared to the ones on head. If anybody were prepared for a breakup, that would be the right setting.

CLEOPATRA

Though age from folly could not give me freedom

How someone receives/engages with symbols.

Choose to react or not react based on their immaturity. 

How water ends

 In a village well

if you know swimming

its fun jumping into it

if you are a kid

who doesnt know swimming

the slips and scrapes

can frighten you

Decades later

its time to fill the well up

because its value now lies

in being land

Miscellaneous

 Learnability - Repetition, Intensity, deliberate focus

focus - myelin connection

self-discipline - intrinsic

tree - centralised, plants- decentralised like virus

bonnie-bassler-on-talkative-bacteria-and-eavesdropping-viruses

viruses-can-scatter-their-genes-among-cells-and-reassemble

patent - non-obvious

in teaching - latent first - if its non-obvious.. you lose the students

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05256-0

Karl Popper wrote: “Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification — the art of discerning what we may with advantage omit.”

Byrne Hobrat's electrocloud article too seems like it was written to make others understand things easily. Even with the initial lede of Zuck got it wrong and Bezos got it right.

every strategy falls in and out of favor - Howard Marks

 

Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX

when RazakSAT had to be delivered - it was too heavy for Falcon 1 had to change the direction of pad, had to deliver it from closer to equator for the weight reason. Razak itself wanted to be close to equator so the satellite would fly by Malay about dozen times.. for monitoring...

liquid oxygen (-297F close to pluto temp) takes less space

static fire test - clamps

When the rocket couldnt be pinged from the ground with UHF antenna, going a little above.. closer to the rocket's antenna.. saved the price of building a comms center

scrappy but expedient - moving the rocket in a cradle on wheels with a plyboard 4-5 fet and then moving the plyboard further.. each time...

More voltage to prevent brown out reset from the lengthy cables.

The Lemonade War

From the younger one's report:

 

Evan was hiding in the basement in the beginning of the story.

Jessie was good at math and bad at feelings.

Evan usually felt frustrated when Jessie aced smarter than him.

Jessie is a pleasant and helpful person.

The girls lemonade affected the boys business because Evan thought they were bragging.

The bet was about who can get the most money.

Evan was trying to figure out how much money he'd made selling lemonade. The only way to do this was to use double digit multiplication, but Evan didnt think he could solve that kind of problem.

Evan thought Jessie was showing off how much money she got. He thought she was sneering at him. I think Evan misunderstood Jessie.

The WHJ - Wild Hot Jellybeans Club was not about jelly beans. It was actually meant to be something mean about Jessie.

Jessie agreed to go to the beach instead of making another lemonade stand because Megan said the heat was going away.

Jessie decided not to use Megan's money to win the war because Jessie thought that Evan still might have more money than Jessie after she spends Megan's money.

I think Evan would have taken home the buggy lemonade if the neighborhood mom was not there.

Jessie felt regretful about ruining Evan's lemonade because it was her doing something bad.

Evan felt like he needed to get out of the house because he felt guilty of taking Jessie's money.

Evan protected the money envelope by tieing it in his clothes. He did not do a good job.

If I were Evan, I would chase after Scott if he stole the money from me. I would also tell my parents.

What worried Evan the most about Jessie being in his class was that he was insulted.

Jessie won the lemonade war by an extra 89c even though it was a tie.

How kids learn Vedas

 Tricks to memorize the vedas

shloka memorization technique

pathas or recitation techniques

ghanapatha recitation

Ananda Lahari