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Year 2019 is almost over and we are entering the 20s ladies and gentlemen!
I'd like to share someone special at the end of the year, because we are not just starting a new year, we are beginning a new decade. So we have to pay more thoughts to our future planning.
I’d like to share an amazing talk with an illustration done by Ray Dalio about the principles.
Ray Dalio is hedge fund manager, one of the richest men in the world who decided to share with the world secrets of his success. Ray has proven that he is real deal, he is extremely successful and his lessons can help you guide yourself in the next decade.
Happy New Year, folks!
https://youtu.be/B9XGUpQZY38

“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”

History repeats itself... Trump's military escalation with Iran came about the right time.

The death of Qasem Soleimani by Iranian artist Mana Nayestani.

Just watched Ricky Gervais Golden Globe award. Last thing he said was absolutely spot on.
It's so ridiculous that a movie stars have became a political or environmental activist, despite the fact that most of them are full of shit. Like Leonardo DiCaprio who talks about Global Warming on Oscars and then goes off to spend a week on a super yacht that creates more pollution in a week than an average family in a year.
I like Leo as an actor, but he's not a physics Noble prize winner, so I don't give a shit what he thinks about environment.
https://youtu.be/W-mE0KZnzyc

Iranians have shot down an Ukrainian plane while attacking US bases?

Iranian student are proving that they are caring and compassionate people by going out on protest against their criminal government for shooting down Ukrainian plane. Respect!

What do you do if some geeza in front of ya has a cardiac arrest ?
Vinnie Jones has proper set of instructions for ya.
https://youtu.be/Li9l0lNo7_Q

Corporate training in China. Apparently they're screaming "I will improve"( If anyone speaks Chinese correct me). Probably great training to "improve" obedience of your slaves.
"Freedom and slavery are mental states."
Mahatma Gandhi

Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.
I'm pretty sure that most of @talks subscribers are young folks, but we will all become old some day and we will die.
He's a small film about 97 years old philosopher and he thinks about death.
I'm sharing this not to make you sad, but to help you appreciate your youth , your health, your relationships and generally the life you have.

https://youtu.be/qX6NztnPU-4

Just watched this interesting documentary about a white guy who went to live in a tribe with aborigines for a year.
These people have been isolated from rest of the world until recent 30-40 years. So basically when they were discovered watching their way of life could tell how most of our ancient ancestors lived during the stone age. So this white guy lives with August, a local man who welcomes him in his house for some rent, but later forces him to pay 1500 pounds, which basically turns him into tribes tycoon.

There're several concussions that came to my mind after watching this documentary:

1. There's no progress without cultural exchange. When you stop cultural exchange you're left behind. Clearly countries where all of the cultures are mixed together are the most advanced. If a society completely closes from outside world, this is direct road to degradation.

2. Most people in comment section are clueless idiots romanticizing on an internet how evil is money and how great was human life before this invention. It's so ungrateful and hypocrite to blame inventions, while using them every day for your comfort. If person thinks that modern inventions are evil, it's extremely easy to fix - go back to the jungle to the stone age(tribes people will be delighted to trade places with you).

3. I can't blame August forcing this white guy to pay. Europeans have corrupted these tribes, not with money, but with FREE money or stuff. They would come a give them free stuff, government gave them free housing... they have corrupted them! Before they used to work extremely hard to find and hunt the prey. But why work hard when you can get a fortune from naive white guy? These Europeans treated them how people like to treat monkeys in a zoo giving free bananas just because they exist. However these people are not monkeys, their brains are just advanced as brains of white, asian or african human. People learn quickly and they have been thought that best way to succeed in modern live is to force others to pay.
Surprisingly the smartest person in the village was Christian priest who thought people to work and be productive, but obviously he will fail. Because August earned more money than anyone in this village by being cunning. Villagers will learn from this example that hard work doesn't pay as much as extortion. This will create a negative loop for these people, because tourist will be afraid to go there and which will make it harder for them to reach modern level of lifestyle.

To me it's like a mini experiment of socialism, how free stuff corrupts people and destroys attempt to move towards progress.
After collapse of Soviet Union there was a generation of people who were absolutely lost in this new free world. People were taken care of by their government, they went to work where government told them, they earned similar pay despite differences in productivity. In return government demanded full submission with KGB, mass killings, concentration camps etc.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
I think that the only thing that doesn't corrupt people is a free education.
Education can enrich your live, help you to survive, makes you interesting and useful to other people.
Free things will destroy your character you'll be like monkey in a zoo getting food just because you exist.

https://youtu.be/qSjhRmEhi7k

Wishing you all a Happy Lunar New Year! It's sad what is happening in China, wish that new virus will be cured as soon as possible and all the people who got sick will get cured.

If someone is hurrying you into decision, that someone might be trying to fool you.
"Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty."

Just watched this amazing talk by Charles Hoskinson (co-founder of Ethereum, founder of Cardano).
This was great explanation of what kind of impact blockchain technology can have on the all the societies around the world.
I though it was really inspiring!

https://youtu.be/Zuc2_7MGZ_g

Never stop! There's always a way. Every failure is a stepping stone towards the success and greatness.
https://youtu.be/s8jwBezj6zg