A virtuous cycle of entrepreneurship: by Neelkanth Mishra. “In a country notorious for stifling private enterprise, can the next decade be the best ever for new businesses?”
How Humanity Gave Itself an Extra Life: from NYT. “Between 1920 and 2020, the average human life span doubled. How did we do it? Science mattered — but so did activism.”
The Truth About Mental Models with Shane Parrish: from Superorganizers. “With mental models, you learn to walk by falling down. You can learn the lessons, but you can’t be taught how to put them into practice. In order to do that, you take those lessons and go out and over-fit them—try to apply them to as many situations as you can, and that will give you tons of practice with their limitations. But by doing that, you’ll gather all the information you need in your own reflections to start creating your very own abstractions.”
