First Principles @_1stprinciples

I help people feel and perform better. Tweets and threads about the first principles of happiness: Health, Wealth & Knowledge. 1stprinciples00.substack.com Sign up to my newsletter → Joined March 2023

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First Principles @_1stprinciples

a month ago

Hey @grok who was the most famous person to visit my profile in the last 3 years? It doesnt need to be a mutual, don’t tag them, just say who it was using handle without the @ sign.

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First Principles @_1stprinciples

7 months ago

Workout Album of the week: Back to the early 70s for a no holds barred romp through the best of uplifting Blues. Includes the legendary “Stay With Me”. Also one of the best album names of all time: open.spotify.com/album/3mvdHEE5…

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First Principles @_1stprinciples

8 months ago

“The primary goal of the Church of Reason, Phaedrus said, is always Socrates' old goal of truth, in its ever-changing forms, as it's revealed by the process of rationality. Everything else is subordinate to that.”

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8 months ago

Workout Album of the week: The album that defined a new dawn for guitar bands…. The Strokes: Is this it. (2001) open.spotify.com/album/2yNaksHg…

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8 months ago

If you want a good way of understanding the exponential nature of human progress. Jimmy Carter grew up barefoot walking behind a horse and plow. He didn’t have running water or electricity until he was 11.

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8 months ago

Extraordinary results likely require extraordinary sacrifice at times. The key question to ask yourself is whether the sacrifice is for who you are or for what you think you should be?

David Senra @FoundersPodcast

8 months ago

Extraordinary results likely require extraordinary sacrifice at times. The key question to ask yourself is whether the sacrifice is for who you are or for what you think you should be?

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First Principles @_1stprinciples

8 months ago

It’s possible to do an MBA on YouTube now. Maybe this is an indicator of legacy educational institutions having their utility tested…

Trung Phan @TrungTPhan

8 months ago

It’s possible to do an MBA on YouTube now. Maybe this is an indicator of legacy educational institutions having their utility tested…

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First Principles @_1stprinciples

8 months ago

The final end to the greatest tale of espionage ever told…

The Times and The Sunday Times @thetimes

8 months ago

The final end to the greatest tale of espionage ever told…

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8 months ago

2/3 servings of tomatoes per week cuts the risk of prostrate cancer by a third. Lykopene is the fat soluble molecule responsible for this. Ideally cooked in olive oil (for optimal absorbtion)… Via @drwilliamli podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i-a…

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8 months ago

Jason Pargin via @KrisAbdelmessih How hysteria is playing to the strengths of the “system”… “Changing the world requires a stunning amount of tedious, quiet work, of dry reading and learning and organizing and slowly changing obstinate minds….” Don’t let the algos choose…

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8 months ago

Workout album of the week: A guttural goodbye to Thatcherism and hello to the Britpop years… Definitely Maybe (30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) open.spotify.com/album/4ltq9CMO…

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8 months ago

The current economic state of affairs explained more succinctly than by any economist. The below sets the out the Triffin dilemma in real life terms…. More stand ups comics in the Central Banks please….

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8 months ago

Success is more about endurance than IQ. So much investment and thought goes into having the right skills and qualifications. Durability, consistency and patience will always be more valuable than anything we can learn in our early years.

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First Principles @_1stprinciples

a year ago

The greatest trick the devil ever played was making you think the pessimists are the good guys… @morganhousel

Morgan Housel @morganhousel

a year ago

The greatest trick the devil ever played was making you think the pessimists are the good guys… @morganhousel

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Terra Scenes @TerraScenes

a year ago

Hawaii 🌴

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First Principles @_1stprinciples

a year ago

First Principles vol. 44 is out. The benefit of good habits is often not just found in the behaviour but in the changes to your subconscious... Also @nfergus essays on Cold War 2. Scary and interesting in equal measure. Perception v Perspective. Taking another person's…