Social proof is the evil behind bubbles and stock market panic.
“Some people do not become aware of inclinations or future career paths in their childhood, but instead are made painfully aware of their limitations.”
― Mastery
― Mastery
“The great danger is that we give in to feelings of boredom, impatience, fear, and confusion. We stop observing and learning. The process comes to a halt.”
― Mastery
― Mastery
“The trees were always doing something: when I kept this fact placed firmly in front of me, I got closer to making sense of the problem.”
― Lab Girl
― Lab Girl
“And at the root of this mental transformation are two simple biological traits—the visual and the social—that primitive humans leveraged into power.”
― Mastery
― Mastery
“The human that depended on focused attention for its survival now becomes the distracted scanning animal, unable to think in depth, yet unable to depend on instincts.”
― Mastery
― Mastery
Suresh’s 2025 Year in Books
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