Takeoff Into Chaos
Chapter 2 — Takeoff Into Chaos. 198 thoughts gathered here — 113 made it into the written chapter, the rest wait in the pool. This introduction is a placeholder for the author's own words.
The spine
The thoughts this chapter was written from, in order of appearance.
- only one thing is certain
- the idea that you can make life stick to…
- The world of an infant must be tremendously confusing…
- The world of an infant must be tremendously confusing…
- imagine if you will what it would feel like…
- When Krish disrupted the visual cortex, his subjects' ability…
- There are welcome, neutral, and unwelcome things
- When struck by chaos and disorder, our minds set…
- When struck by chaos and disorder, our minds set…
- We're naturally wired to organize the world into a…
- consider what happens when we are trying to think
- Spinoza’s early early account arises when reality does not…
- Another concept is order, chaos, and change from order…
- We are always living with order and chaos
- Cass is not necessarily all bad
- Paige 88 crisis and chaos often offer great opportunity…
- Chaos needed for growth
- daring but controlled ie
- As Winston Churchill once complained, the future s one…
- Chapter 1 verse 4 one generation goes and another…
- Chapter 1 verse 5 the sun rises and the…
- Chapter 1 verse 9 that which has been is…
- Chapter 9 verse 11 again I saw under the…
- Chapter 9 verse 2 everything be falls everyone equally
- Chapter 7 verse 15 I have seen everything in…
- Chapter 2 verse 18 and so I hated all…
- chapter 5 verse 11 Sweet is the sleep of…
- Transmission of tradition
- Thus, we can think about entropy in two ways
- Thus, we can think about entropy in two ways
- The heroes of fairy tales are vulnerable, and that…
- The first leads from radical vulnerabil-ity to a state…
- The first leads from radical vulnerability to a state…
- Vulnerability shakes the fabric of the narratively organized world
- The narrative ending aims at a precise balancing in…
- The narrative ending aims at a precise balancing in…
- In 2011, Nassim Taleb wrote about a concept he…
- In 2011, Nassim Taleb wrote about a concept he…
- Start-ups are antifragile businesses
- First, as Nassim Nicholas Talib writes in his book…
- Children are the kings and queens of antifragility, the…
- Sometimes, life is like a mousetrap
- We know these clusters of unlucky events simply happen…
- We know these clusters of unlucky events simply happen…
- people believe in the "balancing force of the universe
- This mistake is usually called belief in the "law…
- The Nobel laureate Herbert Simon argued that the same…
- We can think up a sophisticated program in the…
- how we got to be as big as we…
- Therefore, the number of infected people can grow in…
- Therefore, the number of infected peo-ple can grow in…
- vastness
- And those who were seen dancing were thought to…
- In the same way, you cannot control that you…
- Life is continually changing and if you're trying to…
- Paige 75 perhaps the hardest lesson to learn is…
- Some of us are perfectionists
- Some of us are perfectionists
- Thus having more time to generate options opens the…
- more memory is not generally better
- To understand why less information and computation can be…
- To understand why less information and computation can be…
- a professional is on a mission
- if you shirk the responsibility of confronting the unexpected…
- . If you shook the responsibility of confronting the…
- If the folks at Boeing, especially senior executives, had…
- If the folks at Boeing, especially senior executives, had…
- At your absolute climax of fear, you must do…
- There is one thing I'd say though
- There is one thing I'd say though
- Beyond these are factors of human nature itself
- Western life is methodically made to sound perilous or…
- Western life is methodically made to sound perilous or…
- Other factors color our aversion to believing that most…
- The news-organization incentive to emphasize the negative can be…
- In contemporary Western politics, the party out of power…
- Intellectuals, politicians, tort lawyers, and the media have in…
- Today we have the knowledge necessary to detect small…
- In some terrible way, the path of young women's…
- Overview
- TIP
- One important thing to remember is that in a…
- When it comes to high-impact events, there is another…
- The probability of experiencing a financial crisis within one…
- From burning coal to mining critical minerals for electric…
- From burning coal to mining critical minerals for electric…
- You do not live as an individual and a…
- In conclusion
- conscious choice is the most empowering resource that I…
- do not seek to have everything that happens happen…
- each time you choose to trust yourself and take…
- It's true, that standing up straight with your shoulders…
- Third, get comfortable with being unsure
- We need to accept an even celebrate what we…
- Key Lesson
- Key Learnings
- embracing change, as we experience a constant avalanche of…
- other writers shared M's fascination with the unstable
- let's take the average of four independent judgments this…
- they even went as far as making daily broadcast…
- There is also a border between order and chaos…
- Paige 194 without a sense of humor, life can…
- She who only looks inward, will find only chaos…
- Three situation constitute natural defining moments, and deserve our…
- life can be difficult, and there may be times…
- Hurricane forecast to hit Florida?
- When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself
- The moment I look back in my life and…
- 9
- One who sees a throng of 600,000 Israelites says…
- What was created after He rested?
- Do not think that any created thing can be…
- in the words of Isaiah to be a light…
The pool
Gathered for this chapter, not yet used — raw material for what comes next.
Change
- . And countries can also be in negative bubbles…
- In addition, gold has tended to have an inverse…
- On the dark side, if the bonds are being…
- Heading into the next recession, the United States will…
- . The lowest percent-age of stocks closing above this…
- If Bitcoin goes down in price (which it eventually…
- All market valuations are ultimately governed by either inflation…
- The Sprott Physical Uranium Trust was near $7
- Then they realized
- So, you're going to see the office markets kind…
- And that is because beauty is continually affected by…
- The logical end result of a consumer culture addicted…
- Heading into the next recession, the United States will…
- The lowest percent-age of stocks closing above this key…
- All the arbitrary things we need to remember add…
- Things that have never happened before happened all the…
- I am saving for a world
- History is just one damn thing after another
- When we encounter problems, we often use, tried and…
- will become temporary Arie often become Premier, we assume…
- It’s hard to make things easier
Action
- The physicist Brian Green explained, pushing back on the…
- Science calls this the social loafing effect
- Buying another of what you already possess is consid…
- More than a decade before, he ran the financial…
- They treat wrestling with bad and good friction as…
- Research on "management by walking around," or MBWA, suggests…
- Science calls this the social loafing effect
- The Essence of Ritual Is the "How"
- perfectly acceptable
- When people misbehave, we likewise assume that they’re doing…
- Love the pressure
Decision
- In doing so it makes three mistakes
- Let's say you want to hire a secretary (sorry
- Almost all market participants are wrong about stock prices…
- To call-and-raise-the-Joneses, Americans increasingly take on foolish levels of…
- But if we get a real spike, like the…
- You have to follow this vega carefully
- The Bear Traps Report index of twenty-one Lehman systemic…
- Much of that was due to the free money…
- Risk management
- Keeping money requires the opposite of taking risk
- History is littered with good ideas taken too far…
Community
- this leads to some interesting questions
- To the extent that the masses wish to glorify…
- The robe, a visual cue signaling status and importance…
- So Nietzsche concluded, "In order for there to be…
- But when secular organizations demand sacrifice, every member has…
Emotion
- He cursed the fickle re-viewers and academics who panned…
- While people who navigate life through bargaining and rules…
- In a kind of nature's-revenge law, the fact that…
- In a kind of nature's-revenge law, the fact that…
- FIGURE 1
Takeoff into chaos
- Common enemies create unity within our religion
- Societies needed order and hierarchy and authority, and freedom…
- These days, there are plenty of reasons to doubt…
- For example, we tracked close to two thousand agile…
Conflict
- Every year someone walks through my door who wants…
- The repair service cares about maintainability
- Hearing this, you feel cheated
- If not for this mishnah itself, there is no…
Consciousness
- John Doyle has the position that somehow we got…
- However, even Jung cautioned that "there is no such…
- In most people's minds, this fear of losing social…
Living
Balance
Brain-mind
- Skeletal though they are, neural networks are capable of…
- Skeletal though they are, neural networks are capable of…
Business
Communication
- Similarly, Comcast, our internet and TV provider, protects a…
- Similarly, Comcast, our internet and TV provider, protects a…
Awareness
- The Bear Traps Report index of twenty-one Lehman systemic…
- At his third birth, when he leaves his body…