Malcom Gladwell and Rick Rubin

 

say nothing, do nothing, be nothing

 

 

"The Art of Persuasion"

muse

"If there's a book you want to read but can't find it, write it."
- David McCullough [1933-2022]

Through a glass darkly

Obscure or imperfect vision of reality.

duplicity

"There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hopes soon to be swept away. The British people can face peril or misfortune with fortitude and buoyancy, but they bitterly resent being deceived or finding that those responsible for their affairs are themselves dwelling in a fool's paradise"

- Winston Churchill [1874-1965]

chat with historical figures

 hellohistory.ai

micro-shares

Jeff Bezos [born 1964] backs real-estate venture Arrived that enables investors to buy for as little as $100 micro-shares of single-family homes. 

on bad memoirs

"I learned nothing and way too much."

Google killer?

 ChatGPT runs on Artificial Intelligence.

Microsoft is rumored to be a buyer at $10b. A much better deal than Elon Musk's $44b still unfolding slow motion car crash Twitter fiasco.

Wagner

 

how to play James Bond's game

 

on gambling in China

"Their culture is about fate, that your life is predetermined, out of your control. It's why Macau is 10xs the size of Las Vegas." 

on overcoming depression

"I catch it early. I ask myself: Do I really want to be thinking this the whole day?"
- Bill Burr [born 1968]

sunday supper

cool britania

bad dreams and cigarettes

history's most influential music producer

He's been a fan of music for decades and sometimes his ideas resonate. Flops should be acknowledged. 

the father of modern las vegas

 

hard reboot

 

Routine

 

"So I can think about other things, I'll have the same thing every day for six months maybe, or even longer." 20 cups of coffee throughout the day. Currently for lunch it's feta cheese, olive oil and vinegar, tomatoes, and some tuna fish mixed together. For dinner it could be a broth and bread.

moral corruption and decay, with money as the object of principal importance.

 

The Whale

 

“I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.”
― Herman Melville [1819-1891], Moby Dick

plagued by ague, rheumatism, and depression

 

prima ballerina

“To follow, without halt, one aim: there’s the secret of success.”

– Anna Pavlova [1881-1931]

tracking redundancies

Filter/sort data here. 

So you're a spider?

Q: What do you do for work?

A: I'm a web designer.

"Spare" analysis

pretending to be a billionaire

 

$60k experiment

 

When his apartment flooded, this cardiologist moved into the Wynn for a month while repairs were completed. Story here.

 

enlightenment

"If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back."
- Carl Sagan [1934-1996]

Oprah's latest favorite things

 Here.

being bipolar

 

Guns, Germs and Steel

Why cultures dominate.

Part 1 

 

Part 2

 

Part 3

visual aid

Source here.

Self-Consciousness in the 1950s

Self-Conscious Guy 1951 Coronet Instructional Films, Teen Problems from Jeff Quitney on Vimeo.

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