May 2013
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“The single human being is a piece of fatum from the front and from the rear, one...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
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“Every naturalism in morality—that is, every healthy morality—is...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
If you care about anyone or anything at all, you cannot afford to be Weak.
The Nice Guy: Ascetic of Masculinity. Decadent.
We are told many a lie by the society, by the media, and worse yet, even at our mother’s knee. If you haven’t noticed, you’re of the herd—start thinking for a change. If you’re disillusioned but resentful, you’re still Weak—become Strong.
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“We, who have opened their eyes and conscience to the question where and how the...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
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“The familiar “computer metaphor” that halfheartedly likens the brain to a...”
– Shimon Edelman, The Happiness of Pursuit: What Neuroscience Can Teach Us About the Good Life
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“Each concept in our mind owes its existence to a long succession of analogies...”
– Douglas Hofstadter & Emmanuel Sander, Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking
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“Without concepts there can be no thought, and without analogies there can be no...”
– Douglas Hofstadter & Emmanuel Sander, Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking
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“It is a disquieting thought that our heads contain a neurological version of a...”
– Matt Ridley, The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
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“Mankind is a self-domesticated animal; a mammal; an ape; a social ape; an ape in...”
– Matt Ridley, The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
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“It is all very well to say that men want to marry beautiful women and women want...”
– Matt Ridley, The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
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“In a monogamous society a woman often chooses a mate long before he has had a...”
– Matt Ridley, The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
There is a difference between self-confidence and being insecurely bold.
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“A new species of philosophers is coming up: I shall venture to baptize them with...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
Three concepts of great importance: geeky passions, robust heuristics, and calibrated intuition.
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“My suffering—what does it matter! Should I strive for my happiness? I strive for...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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“Men have given to themselves all their values. They did not take it, they did...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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“In 1927, Werner Heisenberg showed that uncertainty is inherent in quantum...”
– Satyajit Das, Impossible Inexactness
Do I have any followers in Michigan?
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“Is life not a hundred times too short to be bored in it?”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
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“Whether it be hedonism, pessimism, utilitarianism, or eudaemonism, all those...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
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“If we are to have virtues, we shall presumably have only such virtues as have...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
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“Throughout our evolutionary history, men and women have faced different sexual...”
– Matt Ridley, The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
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“Nurture always reinforces nature; it rarely fights it.”
– Matt Ridley, The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
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“Every man who arrives at a reassuring conclusion about anything at all gives...”
– Cioran, A Short History of Decay
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“History is irony on the move.”
– Cioran, A Short History of Decay
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The word “religion” comes from the Latin verb “religare” which means “to reconnect, to bind together.” Many a religion are still to be invented!
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“As you become proficient in the use of language, your style will emerge, because...”
– Strunk & White, The Elements of Style
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“If we imagine the enemy as a boxer, we tend to focus on his punch. But still...”
– Robert Greene, The 33 Strategies of War
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“… God, or Nature, …”
– Spinoza
All is computation.
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“Deep in the mind of the modern man is a simple male hunter-gatherer rule: Strive...”
– Matt Ridley, The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
Bayes is my Lord and my King.
“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”
– G. K. Chesterton (via larmoyante)
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The Fundamental Premise (by Roissy) →
Eggs are expensive, sperm is cheap. Every psychological dynamic you see playing out in mass societies liberated from artificial constraints on the sexual market flows from this premise. This means, as a systemic matter, women are coddled, men are upbraided. Women are victims, men are victimizers. Women need a leg up, men need to man up. Women have advocacy groups, men have equal opportunity...
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“Baker and Bellis discovered that the amount of sperm that is retained in a...”
– Matt Ridley, The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
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“Stage 1: First Kiss (less than one minute)
TONGUE: Nibble your way through the...”
– Ian Kerner, She Comes First: The Thinking Man’s Guide to Pleasuring a Woman
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“A soteria is the positive analogue of a phobia. A phobia is an irrational fear...”
– Christopher Peterson, Pursuing the Good Life: 100 Reflections on Positive Psychology
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“Using a variety of methods—surveys and experiments—researchers at the University...”
– Christopher Peterson, Pursuing the Good Life: 100 Reflections on Positive Psychology
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“What makes like worth living is work, love, play, and service.”
– Christopher Peterson, Pursuing the Good Life: 100 Reflections on Positive Psychology
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“As a route to a satisfying life, eudaimonia trumps hedonism.”
– Christopher Peterson, Pursuing the Good Life: 100 Reflections on Positive Psychology
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“Positive psychology is the scientific study of what makes life most worth...”
– Christopher Peterson, Pursuing the Good Life: 100 Reflections on Positive Psychology
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“The nature of the human male, then, is to take opportunities, if they are...”
– Matt Ridley, The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
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“Let the youthful soul look back on life with the question: what have you truly...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, Untimely Meditations
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“Nobody can build the bridge for you to walk across the river of life, no one but...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, Untimely Meditations
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“In his heart every man knows quite well that, being unique, he will be in the...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, Untimely Meditations 