**Fewer people can bench 225 than are worth 10 million or more, constituting approximately 1.62% of all households. If you can bench two plates, you’re already stronger than 99% of people on the planet, just maybe not richer.
Chris Williamson 3MM
I’m one of those people. I had an experience that completely shifted my view of the world and of reality, and I haven’t been the same since. I just learned a French word I’m probably going to butcher: dérive, which means to drift intentionally.
You might discover that there’s this self that thinks all kinds of things that are just false. It might hold on to memories of the past or projections to the future that are complete illusions. This is why presence is so important, because presence is real. The future doesn’t exist and the past is gone.
Cyan Bannister https://jacksondahl.com/dialectic/cyan-banister
I feel like I want a really good job because then of me highly so I feel like I matter
Even among those vetted early users from the waitlist, not everyone loved the product. Saarinen didn’t sweat over it. “When you create something new, there’s always going to be people who don’t like it, especially in the beginning. So I don’t think you should overindex on why someone doesn’t like it — you should index on why someone does like it,” he says.
To determine when to launch publicly, Saarinen watched for steadily high retention rates. “If you’re losing the majority of your first users, you shouldn’t launch it publicly because you’ll just lose even more people,” he says.
**Keynesian Economics Principles
If spending too high compared to output then inflation and growth If spending too lo compared to output then unemployment and recession
**What is inflation?
Inflation is the rate at which the general level of prices for goods and services in an economy rises over time, reducing the purchasing power of money.
Key Points
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Price Increase: When inflation is high, everyday items like groceries, gas, or housing become more expensive.
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Purchasing Power: The same amount of money buys fewer goods or services. For example, if inflation is 5%, something that cost 105 this year.
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Measurement: Governments usually measure inflation through indexes such as the Consumer Price Index (CPI), which tracks the cost of a basket of common goods and services.
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Causes:
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Demand-pull inflation: When demand for goods/services exceeds supply.
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Cost-push inflation: When production costs (like wages or raw materials) rise, and companies pass these costs to consumers.
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Monetary factors: When too much money is circulating in the economy.
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Why It Matters
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Moderate inflation (around 2% in the U.S.) is considered normal and even healthy, as it encourages spending and investment.
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Very high inflation (hyperinflation) or negative inflation (deflation) can harm economies by making prices unstable, discouraging investment, or leading to unemployment.
**What is shorting?
In economics and finance, shorting (or taking a short position) is a way to try to profit when the price of an asset (like a stock, bond, or commodity) goes down.
How It Works
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Borrow: An investor borrows shares of a stock (usually from a broker).
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Sell: They sell those borrowed shares at today’s market price.
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Buy Back (Cover): Later, they must return the shares to the lender, so they buy them back from the market.
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If the stock price dropped, they can buy it back cheaper and keep the difference as profit.
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If the stock price rose, they lose money, because they have to buy it back at a higher price.
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Example
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You think Company X’s stock ($100 per share) will fall.
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You borrow 10 shares and sell them for $1,000.
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The stock drops to 700**, return them, and pocket $300 profit.
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If the stock rises to 1,200** to buy them back, losing $200.
Key Points
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High Risk: Unlike buying a stock (where the most you can lose is what you invested), losses from shorting can be unlimited because there’s no cap on how high a stock price can rise.
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Used For:
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Speculation: Betting prices will fall.
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Hedging: Protecting a portfolio against potential losses.
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**How does an internal combustion engine work?
An internal combustion engine (ICE) works by burning fuel inside the engine itself to release energy, which is then converted into mechanical motion. This is the engine type found in most cars, motorcycles, and many machines.
🔄 The Basic Idea
- Fuel + Air + Spark → Explosion → Motion
The engine mixes fuel with air, compresses it, ignites it, and uses the expanding gases from the explosion to push pistons. Those pistons turn a crankshaft, which powers the wheels or machinery.
🚗 The Four-Stroke Cycle (common in car engines)
Most ICEs are four-stroke engines, meaning each piston goes through four steps (strokes) per cycle:
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Intake Stroke
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The piston moves down.
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The intake valve opens.
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A mixture of fuel and air enters the cylinder.
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Compression Stroke
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The piston moves up.
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The fuel-air mixture is squeezed into a smaller space, making it more explosive.
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Power Stroke (Combustion)
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A spark plug ignites the compressed fuel-air mixture.
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A controlled explosion forces the piston downward with great force.
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This is where the engine produces power.
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Exhaust Stroke
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The piston moves up again.
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The exhaust valve opens.
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Burned gases are pushed out of the cylinder into the exhaust system.
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⚙️ How Motion Is Created
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Pistons are connected to a crankshaft.
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As pistons move up and down, they turn the crankshaft in a circular motion.
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This rotation drives the car’s transmission and wheels.
🔑 Key Components
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Cylinder: Chamber where combustion happens.
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Piston: Moves up and down from explosions.
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Spark Plug: Creates the spark to ignite fuel-air mix.
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Valves: Control intake (fuel/air in) and exhaust (gases out).
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Crankshaft: Converts piston motion into rotation.
🛠️ Why It’s Called “Internal Combustion”
Because the combustion (burning of fuel) happens inside the engine itself, unlike external combustion engines (like steam engines), where fuel is burned outside to create steam.
Or, as the philosopher Wittgenstein put it more comically,
“The older I get the more I realize how terribly difficult it is for people to understand each other, and I think that what misleads one is the fact that they all look so much like each other. If some people looked like elephants and others like cats, or fish, one wouldn’t expect them to understand each other and things would look much more like what they really are.”