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Under standing has replaced fear, but it may be that the shadows of ancient mysteries remain, so that the sight of high mountains rekindles in a different guise the same feelings of awe which our remote ancestors had in their presence.
“It is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.”
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“I think it’s important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. The normal way we conduct our lives is we reason by analogy. [With analogy] we are doing this because it’s like something else that was done, or it is like what other people are doing. [With first principles] you boil things down to the most fundamental truths…and then reason up from there.”
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“I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better.”
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“When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favour.”
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“My proceeds from the PayPal acquisition were $180 million. I put $100 million in SpaceX, $70m in Tesla, and $10m in Solar City. I had to borrow money for rent.”
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The Year of Reading Proust
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2013 was the year for reading—or re-reading—Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu or In Search of Lost Time for many of us. However, these th ...more
Salvi’s 2025 Year in Books
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