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Personal blog about freedom, self development, business, politics and philosophy. https://fragment.com/username/talks

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Telegram turns 6 years today. Throughout these years, Telegram stood up for freedom and privacy. We defended what we believe in against tyrannies, kleptocracies and corporations.

Today, 6 years after launch, Telegram is the third largest global messaging app in terms of the number of countries where Telegram is in top 10 Social Networking apps.

Let us celebrate today. Tomorrow we’ll get back to building new features. There’s a lot of exciting work left to do.
Happy birthday to Telegram! Congrats to Telegram team and to us the users! 🎉🎉🎊🎊
Below is the promotional link to the course with 90% off discount for @talks subscribers.
https://www.udemy.com/course/telegram-chatbot-bootcamp-using-javascript/?couponCode=TELEGRAM90OFF
Life Formulas from Naval Ravikant.

These are notes to myself. Your frame of reference, and therefore your calculations, may vary. These are not definitions – these are algorithms for success. Contributions welcome.

Happiness = Health + Wealth + Good Relationships

Health = Exercise + Diet + Sleep

Exercise = High Intensity Resistance Training + Sports + Rest

Diet = Natural Foods + Intermittent Fasting + Plants

Sleep = No alarms + 8-9 hours + Circadian Rhythms

Wealth = Income + Wealth * (Return on Investment)

Income = Accountability + Leverage + Specific Knowledge

Accountability = Personal Branding + Personal Platform + Taking Risk?

Leverage = Capital + People + Intellectual Property

Specific Knowledge = Knowing how to do something that society cannot yet easily train other people to do

RoI = Buy-and-Hold + Valuation + Margin of Safety
“play stupid games win stupid prizes.” A lot of people spend a lot of their time playing social games like on Twitter where you’re trying to improve your social standing and you basically win stupid social prizes which are worthless.
J.B.Peterson's rules for life. Cheatsheet
In addition also working on a chatbot that can teach users how to build telegram chatbots. I will make an announcement here when it's done.
Imagine you do ten pushups every day.

Every day, with no excuses. In a year, you’ll be 3,650 pushups stronger.

Imagine you read for ten minutes every day. In a year, you’ll read six books.

Here’s the best part.

If you incrementally increase your input, the compound effect kicks into play.

IF YOU ADD ONE MORE MINUTE TO YOUR READING TIME EVERY DAY, IT ADDS UP TO 80 BOOKS A YEAR.
That’s 10x difference with the linear model. Just for one more minute a day.

And don’t bullshit me that you can’t carve a minute today. You can. “I don’t have time” is just another way of saying that it’s not a priority.

The best part of the compound effect is that it makes habit-building easy.

Everyone can start reading for one minute a day. Everyone can do one pushup.

But after you build a habit, it’s hard to stop.
Huge unrests are happening in Hong Kong in a wake of trade war between United States and China. Once upon a time Hong Kong has been a window to capitalism for China, but things have changed. China seems to lose its patience with relatively free state. So far China s goal was to get millions of people out of powerty using half planning and half trade economy. Communist party been pretty successful at getting about 300 mill people out of poverty and filling up a quarter of Forbes list.
China is increasingly a high-tech police state, their social contact seems to be like this - want to be prosperous, then give up your freedom. In my mind it doesn't work, but Chinese communist party made it work and it's quite remarkable. It will be interesting how this is going to progress and what's goin to happen to Hong Kong.
What do u think ? Can China sustain this model wealth for freedom?
TALKS via @vote
What do you think of marketing?
anonymous poll

Good. I enjoy great marketing. – 23
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 43%

I don't have concrete opinion. – 17
👍👍👍👍👍 31%

Bad. Marketers manipulate people. – 14
👍👍👍👍 26%

👥 54 people voted so far.
Is that Mark Zuckerberg on a spying side? 😂 Great design!
Have you ever tried to intentionally develop a habit like reading every day, daily workout or meditation? Did u succeed? Plz comment about your experience
Happiness is a skill that you develop and a choice that you make.
Naval Ravikant
Apparently Libet's famous brain experiment that proved absence of free will has been debunked.
This is huge folks! And it has reopened the free will debate which lasted for thousands of years.
This is great! Check out the article below.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/09/free-will-bereitschaftspotential/597736/
• Investment is hope expressed financially

• Lavishness is insecurity expressed financially

• Debt is impatience expressed financially

• Charity is love expressed financially

• Savings is discipline expressed financially

• Contentment is wisdom expressed financially
TALKS via @vote
What do you think of marketing? anonymous poll Good. I enjoy great marketing. – 23 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 43% I don't have concrete opinion. – 17 👍👍👍👍👍 31% Bad. Marketers manipulate people. – 14 👍👍👍👍 26% 👥 54 people voted so far.
I took this pole intentionally and I have to admit that results were not what I expected.

I've personally worked in marketing most of my career, but honestly, most of the time, I get really bored during marketing talks full of typical corporate cliches, science jargon or graphs ....loads of graphs.

Rory Sutherland is one of those exceptional marketing profesionals who knows subject extremely well and also daring enough to extend boundaries and "borrow" from psychology, theory of evolution, game theory, etc.

This talk is pretty long, but I think its worth listening.
https://youtu.be/hhQRH49Y54k