Greetings everyone,
This week’s newsletter at a glance:
Why You Don’t Want A Career
How to Live on 24 Hours a Day
Why Most Published Research Findings Are False
Enjoy!
The enemy of most dreams and intuitions, and one of the most dangerous and stifling concepts ever invented by humans, is the ‘career’. A career is a concept for how one is supposed to progress through stages during the training for and practicing of your working life. There are some big problems here. First and foremost is the notion that your work is different and separate from the rest of your life. If you are passionate about your life and your work, this can’t be so. They will become more or less one. This is a much better way to live one’s life.
—Steve Jobs
✏️ How to Live on 24 Hours A Day
You have to live on this 24 hours of daily time. Out of it you have to spin health, pleasure, money, content, respect, and the evolution of your immortal soul. Its right use, its most effective use, is a matter of the highest urgency and of the most thrilling actuality.
If there is anything that annoys me most — and that I am most guilty of myself — is complaining about lack of time.
Everyone — from the garbageman to the homeless man on the street corner to Jeff Bezos — is allotted the same amount of time in the day. You will never have more or less time than the cat beside the fire. Time is the ultimate democracy: no matter how wasteful you are with your time today, God will wake you up tomorrow (Inshallah) with a fresh lot.
Not having enough time is an excuse and distraction from the real dilemma: a lack of priority and a lack of efficiency. What differentiates one who feels content with his work at sunset and one who whines about his lack of time is merely how one allocates and uses the time he is given. The best way to get the most out of your time is to do 10K work — high-leverage, high-skill tasks — in an efficient manner. Make every minute count.
Will you spend it doing tasks that feign productivity but don’t move the needle? Or will you focus on output — on working on things that provide value to the world? Will you do the work of others over your own? Or will you prioritize the things that matter to you, even at the expense of additional coin?
This lesson made me realize that complaining about a lack of time is just empty, useless chatter. Work smart, work hard, and work on the right things. That is how you live on 24 hours a day.
We never shall have any more time. We have, and we have always had, all the time there is.
veritas vitæ magistra
Truth is the teacher of life
💡 Food for Thought
The way you interact with and view the world is a projection of who you are.
🔗 Sunday Best
Why Most Published Research Findings Are False
Citation: Ioannidis, John P A. “Why most published research findings are false.” PLoS medicine vol. 2,8 (2005): e124
There is increasing concern that most current published research findings are false. The probability that a research claim is true may depend on study power and bias, the number of other studies on the same question, and, importantly, the ratio of true to no relationships among the relationships probed in each scientific field. In this framework, a research finding is less likely to be true when the studies conducted in a field are smaller; when effect sizes are smaller; when there is a greater number and lesser preselection of tested relationships; where there is greater flexibility in designs, definitions, outcomes, and analytical modes; when there is greater financial and other interest and prejudice; and when more teams are involved in a scientific field in chase of statistical significance.
Once-Weekly Semaglutide (Ozempic) in Adults with Overweight or Obesity
Citation: Wilding, John PH, et al. "Once-weekly semaglutide in adults with overweight or obesity." New England Journal of Medicine 384.11 (2021): 989-1002.
In participants with overweight or obesity, 2.4 mg of semaglutide once weekly plus lifestyle intervention was associated with sustained, clinically relevant reduction in body weight. Nausea and diarrhea were the most common adverse events with semaglutide; they were typically transient and mild-to-moderate in severity and subsided with time. More participants in the semaglutide group than in the placebo group discontinued treatment owing to gastrointestinal events.
Reading science, math, and philosophy one hour per day will likely put you at the upper echelon of human success within 7 years.
—Naval Ravikant
Thanks for reading!
See you next week.
AT