I have a friend who makes a lot of money flipping houses. Basically he is doing arbitrage. He buys from people who don’t optimize their house or are lazy and they are leaving money on the table. He will do simple conversions to add rooms like turning closets into rooms. He also deals with difficult… Continue reading MR’s real estate strategy
Month: April 2022
NSM notes
I have been studying natural semantic metalanguage (NSM). It has been studied and cross-referenced fom 30+ languages. the core 65 changes several times, in the beginning it was 13 core concepts. It is as objective as it can to study human language, but of course there is still some subjectivity in it. Some words they… Continue reading NSM notes
How to practice leadership on a daily basis
Give honest feedback. Sometimes it hurts to give honest feedback because you don’t want to. Be direct and truthful. Take ownership, especially if its a negative thing. Take that ownership and talk about how you can improve it. People will respect you more. Set a direction. If the team is unsure on a direction, help… Continue reading How to practice leadership on a daily basis
How to have unlimited energy every day
I think its possible to have almost unlimited energy. I didn’t always think like this or feel like this. I had chronic insomnia since I was a child. I think because I grew up with it, it was harder for me to escape it. I would work on getting out of it, and sometimes I… Continue reading How to have unlimited energy every day
skills needed to run a research lab
leading and helping people raising money PM projects prioritizing and delegating charisma ideation execution researching and sorting lots of information writing skills for papers, proposals, and inspiring thinking – finding the key to solutions experimenting – being able to run experiments
Sci-Hub is one of the greatest contributions to humanity in our lifetime
What is the point of academic research? In my mind it is to accelerate human understanding and civilization. If researchers publish research, it should be available for anyone to research. If people want to view that research, it should be available for anyone to view without paying some crazy fee. A large portion of academic… Continue reading Sci-Hub is one of the greatest contributions to humanity in our lifetime
Success is not repeating the same mistake again
I spend a lot of time thinking about what success is. I even keep a collection of definitions of success I’ve heard. The dictionary defines success as “The accomplishment of a success or purpose”. This is a good general purpose definition and it can apply to almost any kind of goal, long or short, big… Continue reading Success is not repeating the same mistake again
somatic environment v2
A list of what parts of the environment can be built now without having to worry about data structures and algorithms. Ability to quickly generate parametric building and houses. Ability to generate agents that can move around. Ability to turn on/off debug mode (FPS,camera,reset physics, etc) Some base environments Draw out some terrain with hills,… Continue reading somatic environment v2
Ideal schedule
4:30 am wake up 4:30-5 am meditate 5-8 am study and research 8-9 am family prep 9-12 pm engineering work 12-1 pm lunch 1-1:30 pm nature 1:30-2 pm emails 2-3 exercise 3-4 pm personal work 5-6 pm admin work 6-7 pm dinner 7-8 pm family time 8-9 pm self reflect, plan for tomorrow 9-10 pm… Continue reading Ideal schedule
Representing Moving vs Doing
The formal definition of “to move” is: “to change from one place or position to another” or “to set or keep in motion”. This moving usually happens by their own volition, but things can be moved by others as a “patient”. It should be easy to know if something is moving and all animal intelligence… Continue reading Representing Moving vs Doing