From Skin in the Game by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Tho problem with socialist governments is that their collapse drags the entire country with it.

Reach out to your Venezuelan friends. We’re going through tough times. A simple “hi” will make a difference. 💪❤️👍 🙏✌️🇻🇪 Fuerza amor y ánimo Paz y libertad para Venezuela

Old video. Once someone threw a mango to maduro’s head. Venezuelan people are hilarious.

Venezuelan drug dealing bands menacing the government with violence supposedly defending the people. Huge risk of them taking over more power and territory. Venezuela can end up fragmented by drug dealing guerrillas.

I've just come back from #Venezuela 🇻🇪 where I spent 2.5 weeks, witnessing the run-up to the presidential vote, and what was arguably the most outrageous election steal in the modern history of Latin America. I'll share some thoughts below 🧵

Nirmalya Kajuri Honestly I love science but there are too many PhD in particular in the soft sciences. Smart young people should go out and build things. Trial and error. Learn think but then build! The future doesn't build itself.

By 21, you've lived half your life—perceptually Our brain's internal clock is predominantly dopaminergic: novel experiences slow time, routine accelerates it. This time warp means perceived age outpaces real age(studies prove this) Solution? Just do more cool shit. Blog below!

El colibrí que no tiene miedo… Una escena digna de una obra de arte de la naturaleza:

How it started. How it‘s going.

If politicians have to convince people that they’re not socialist, it’s because they are socialist. There are videos of Fidel and Chavez (before grabbing power) assuring that they wouldn’t ever dare to expropriate/nationalize property. The rest is history.

Us from Mars.

Airports in Spain use three dimensions (number, color and letter) to identify a single dimension gate (number). They sort flights by time, which we roughly remember, instead of alphabetically which we remember with precision. The system is confusing and adds unnecessary friction.

What do China, Russia and Iran have in common?

The future is contained in the present in a biased form. The most successful innovations contain the most prevalent past behaviors. Nothing is new under the sun. We just make it easier. PS this picture is from internet. Author is Copenhagen institute for future studies.

Imagine being born just a century ago and have missed this picture. We’re so lucky to be alive right here, right now.

El colapso económico en Venezuela es peor que cualquier país de la URSS La represión es peor que cualquier dictadura en América Latina incluyendo Pinochet La migración es peor que cualquier país en guerra incluyendo Siria El tráfico de droga es peor que en México o Colombia

Benoît Mandelbrot recalls learning about turbulence, mentioning the work of Andrey Kolmogorov, Werner Heisenberg, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, and Lars Onsager.

New paper out! Language Statistics at Different Spatial, Temporal, and Grammatical Scales with petitefer Rogelio Lozano Dante R. Pérez Méndez Ewan Colman Alfredo Morales Pedro Juan Rivera carlospgmat03 mdpi.com/1099-4300/26/9… MDPI Entropy MDPI