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The Power Of Keeping Your Identity Small In A Changing World
Actively seek out change
Seek out disconfirming evidence. Challenge the status quo. Have strong opinions, but hold them loosely. Avoid becoming a prisoner of your own expertise.
When you know it’s likely you’ll be wrong over time, you’re less likely to attach your identity to a fixed position.
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Writer's block
Not knowing what to write about is more a problem when writing stories, but essay writing is basically thinking out loud.
When writers' block does strike, pacing around or going out for a...
Evaluating criteria
The goal of an essay is to surprise the reader. If you write about a topic you understand reasonably well, and you're able to discover things you didn't consciously realize when you started writing, you have something worth saying.
Let your friends read your work. They'll sometimes find significant problems.
Common traits
Great entrepreneurs and great writers have this in common: They notice anomalies that other people skip over.
What Is A Startup
A startup is a small company that takes on a hard technical problem.
Economically, you can think of a startup as a way to compress your whole working life into a few years. Instea...
The Difference Between Wealth And Money
- Wealth is the collection of resources we can use. You can have wealth without having money. Money is a way of moving wealth, and in practice they are usually interchangeable.
- Money intermediates transactions. In a specialized society, most of the things you need, you can't make for yourself and you might not have what the other person wants to trade directly for. Thus the use of money to intermediate transactions.
On The Creation Of Wealth
There is a limited amount of money in the world but wealth is unlimited. Wealth can be created through work and new ideas.
Companies aim to create wealth and so do you when you join one. In a company your work is averaged with that of others so it obscures your actual contribution.
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1800: Jefferson and Adams
The outcome was so bizarre, the United States had to amend the Constitution.
- The election of 1800 saw Thomas Jefferson tie with his Democratic-Republican "running mate" Aaron Burr. Both...
1824: 'Corrupt bargain'
- Andrew Jackson won the popular vote by less than 39,000 ballots and took 99 Electoral College votes. John Quincy Adams secured 84, William Crawford won 41, and Henry Clay had 37.
- Clay, with the least votes, got the boot, and his supporters shifted their support to Adams, who would go on to win the majority of the House vote.
After his inauguration, Adams selected Clay as his secretary of state. Jackson accused Adams and Clay of a "corrupt bargain."
1860: Nation divided
The 1860 election was notable because it ripped the long-dominant Party (and nation) in half.
- The Democrats were unable at their 1860 convention to establish an official party line on slavery.
- At a second convention that year, the Democrats nominated Stephen Douglas, but many Southerners in the party selected Breckinridge as their man. Both would claim to be the official Democratic candidate.
- Lincoln snared 40% of the popular vote but took most of the North in the Electoral College.
- Douglas was second in the popular vote but took only Missouri.
- Breckenridge took most of the South.
- Bell's middle of the road policies earned him the middle of the road.
In 1861, delegates from South Carolina, and six of the Southern states formed the Confederate States of America and selected Jefferson Davis as their president.