petrmisan (45)in #cryptocurrency • 5 years agoBumpBumppetrmisan (45)in #gametheory • 6 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.Why you shouldn't slow down to look at a road accident [Nobel laureate Thomas Schelling]People slow down to enjoy a look at the wreckage on the other side of the divider. Curiosity has the same effect as…petrmisan (45)in #elonmusk • 6 years agoElon Musk likes artsy chicksTo date, we know that Elon Musk has dated/married a successful: Novelist Television Actor (twice)…petrmisan (45)in #politics • 6 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.The Conman's Magic TrickThe real confidence game feeds on the desire for magic, exploiting our endless taste for an existence that is more…petrmisan (45)in #shopping • 6 years agoHow Men Shop vs How Women ShopObserve how women and men shop and you’ll see that not much has changed. Women feel fabric, try on shoes with a…petrmisan (45)in #philosophy • 6 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.Embracing RejectionThe main reason for embracing rejection is that rejection is better than regret. Rollo Tomassi, 'The Rational Male'petrmisan (45)in #immortality • 6 years agoWhat a longer life does to societyConventionally, living for longer is seen as being older for longer. There is evidence that this convention will be…petrmisan (45)in #immortality • 6 years agoBeing immortal will change what we will do with our time (Nick Bostrom)In devising the sort of projects that lend meaning and a sense of cohesion to our lives, we presuppose that we will…petrmisan (45)in #success • 6 years agoOn Spotting Our Own Biases (Eliezer Yudkowsky)We’re especially loath to think of our views as inaccurate compared to the views of others. Even when we correctly…petrmisan (45)in #fashion • 6 years agoThe Politics of Italian Fashion: Versace as 'New Money'While the fashion house was based in Milan, none of the Versaces had particularly liked the city. They had come from…petrmisan (45)in #investing • 6 years agoHedge Fund King Steve Cohen: Optimizing Time for Making $$$There was almost no time in a twenty-four-hour day Cohen didn’t use for a moneymaking purpose, and he attributed much…petrmisan (45)in #anarchy • 6 years agoAn economic transaction is not an exchange between two items of equal value (Murray Rothbard)Exchange is the prime basis of our economic life. Without exchanges, there would be no real economy and…petrmisan (45)in #investing • 6 years agoPeter Thiel's default state is to embody contradictionThiel’s default state is to embody contradiction. Doing so is what makes him such a brilliant investor, considering…petrmisan (45)in #taleb • 6 years agoDon't Get an Assistant! (Nassim Nicholas Taleb)One of the best pieces of advice I have ever received was the recommendation by a very successful (and happy) older…petrmisan (45)in #jamiedimon • 6 years agoJamie Dimon's greatest ability“He has an amazing sense of risk,” says his former colleague at Smith Barney, Bob Lessin, currently vice chairman of…petrmisan (45)in #investing • 6 years agoHaving a dinner conversation with Peter ThielEven if Thiel were just an ordinary investor, dinner with him would make anyone nervous. One quickly finds that he…petrmisan (45)in #taleb • 6 years agoAcademic writing is more complicated than necessary because the authors lack skin in the gameThings designed by people without skin in the game tend to grow in complication (before their final collapse). There…petrmisan (45)in #art • 6 years agoThe New York Art Market for Rich PeopleThe art market offered a way to transform wealth into an alluring form of influence and power. “It is not even cool…petrmisan resteemedjrcornel (84)in #cryptocurrency • 6 years agoIf history repeats, crypto could be days away from a massive rally! Ned Scott speaks?If things were to play out even remotely similar to how they did last year, we could be days away from the start of a…petrmisan (45)in #anarchy • 6 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.Weekend Reading...Looking forward to spending the whole weekend on the beach, reading Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek and Murray Rothbard!
