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Yet this youth-driven diversity surge is also creating a “cultural generation gap” between the diverse youth population and the growing, older, still predominantly white population. This gap is reflected in negative attitudes among many ...more
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“Even though a strict reading of a Paleolithic diet would include cannibalism, it is a practice that I have to discourage. Modern people have a much higher ratio of omega-6 to omega-3 fatty acids due to their grain-based diets; carry a wide variety of chronic infections; have destroyed their liver with excessive consumption of alcohol and fructose; and contain many environmental toxins. That said, if one were to incorporate cannibalism into ‘eating paleo,’ it would be healthiest to eat people who strictly adhered to the guidelines in this book.”
John Durant, The Paleo Manifesto: Ancient Wisdom for Lifelong Health

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“Most humans manage to squander their free time, as free time makes them dysfunctional, lazy, and unmotivated—the busier they get, the more active they are at other tasks.”
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder

Jacob Lund Fisker
“The question you need to answer is what you want to do with your life given that you don't have the time to do everything? Do you want to spend most of your life paying off the interest of a 30-year mortgage and working so you can fill increasingly bigger houses with increasingly more stuff while being stuck in your daily commute in increasingly nicer cars? Or are you prepared to give up the stuff so that you can do whatever you want, whenever, and wherever, within reason? What will your legacy be--what you owned or who you were?”
Jacob Lund Fisker, Early Retirement Extreme: A philosophical and practical guide to financial independence

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility; it results from some ecological or naturalistic wisdom, and is not always bad -- at an existential level, it is my body rebelling against its entrapment. It is my soul fighting the Procrustean bed of modernity.”
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

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