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Ben
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GM of a small biologic manufacturer. Dad of two young boys. Interested in medicine, natural science, green energy, computer programming, bitcoin. Nostr since 767741
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ben 1 year ago
"As time went by, the imagined reality became ever more powerful, so that today the very survival of rivers, trees and lions depends on the grace of imagined entities such as gods, nations and corporations." (Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens)
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ben 1 year ago
"We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine gun." (George Orwell, The Road To Wigan Pier)
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ben 1 year ago
"But my mind clung to my wife’s image, imagining it with an uncanny acuteness. I heard her answering me, saw her smile, her frank and encouraging look. Real or not, her look was then more luminous than the sun which was beginning to rise. A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth—that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love." (Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning)
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ben 1 year ago
"The advertisements which bees find useful are flowers – and if you think about it, a flower is simply a weed with an advertising budget." (Rory Sutherland, Alchemy)
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ben 1 year ago
"whenever a generous impulse arises in your mind—to give money, check in on a friend, send an email praising someone’s work—act on the impulse right away, rather than putting it off until later" (Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks)
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ben 1 year ago
Wow it’s so easy. Time to short ASML and TSMC.
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ben 1 year ago
"For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one’s dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself." (Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning)
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ben 1 year ago
"Like the human brain, the market economy is an information processing system." (Dan Davies, Lying for Money)
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ben 1 year ago
You can take the model out of China, but you can take China out of the model. image
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ben 1 year ago
The good old days 🥲 image
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ben 1 year ago
You will not be able to stay home, brother You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out View quoted note →