Greetings everyone,
Decided to take a week off last week, so we are back to regular service! 140 in a row is a pretty good streak.
This week’s newsletter at a glance:
The Importance of Being Action-Biased
Dostoevsky on Revenge, Anger & Justice
Making the Scientific Life Easy
Enjoy!
No worthwhile effort in one’s life is either a success or a failure.
—Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
✏️ Production > Consumption
Netflix, UberEats, TikTok. We live in a consumptive society.
The development of any product or mastery of any skill cannot occur in a state of consumption. The best things in life are the results of production. Whether it be a piece of art, an application built for the masses, a thriving and happy relationship, or a healthy and fit body, they are the results of production.
The act of production is linked to action — consumption is a passive act, while production is an active act. If we want to make anything worthwhile or leave any lasting mark on the world, we have to get up and get to work. Training yourself to have an action-based approach to life will create conditions for production, and subsequently success and growth.
Periods of rest and reflection are important, but our bias must always be to act first, and to produce. Only in a state of production can we see what we are truly capable of, and provide value to ourselves and and the world.
Audentes fortuna iuvat.
Fortune favors the bold.
💡 Food for Thought
Talent means nothing if you can't motivate yourself to use it.
🔗 Sunday Best
How to Design Your Social Media Profiles to Convert
By Treyton Devore
How to make a custom one-page website, top creative tools [graphic], 5 social media tips, and member examples.
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes From Underground | Revenge, Anger, and Justice
By Dr Gregory Sadler
This Core Concept video focuses on Fyodor Dostoevsky's short work of existentialist literature, Notes from Underground, and specifically discusses the emotion of anger, the impulse towards revenge, and the conception of justice. Ordinary people, and "people of action", precisely because they don't think or understand much, think that they are justified in their anger and the revenge they take. For the reflective intellectual, things are not so clear cut.
Escaping the Local Optimum of Low Expectation
A lecture by Lex Fridman
This is a talk with some advice about life and my own journey and passion in artificial intelligence. The audience is a group of Drexel engineering students, friends and family in Philadelphia.
Topics include learning to understand, listening to your inner voice, carving your own path, working hard, and oscillating between gratitude and satisfaction
It is characteristic of scientific life that it is easy when you have a problem to work on. The hard part is finding your problem.
—Freeman Dyson
Goodbye!
AT