Category: quotes

https://benmeer.com/newsletter/staying-calm/

Stress is your body’s way of signaling that something important is happening.

• Slow Down
• Breathe
• Write
• Focus on Brain Health
• Zoom Out
• Reframe Negative Words

https://www.freethink.com/hard-tech/future-of-solid-state-batteries

https://www.elysian.press/p/employee-ownership

The article advocates for employee ownership of companies, using Central States Manufacturing as a model. The company, owned by its employees through an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), demonstrates how such structures can create significant wealth for workers across all levels, improve long-term company performance, and reduce wealth inequality. Employee ownership aligns worker and company interests, leading to sustainable growth and better employee benefits. The article highlights the benefits of ESOPs and calls for broader adoption and awareness of such models.

https://www.workingtheorys.com/p/cool-self

The theory, in brief: Life is about finding your cool self and then living as much of it as you can being that person.

1.  Our business is change.
2. We’re on offense. All the time.
3. Perfect results count — not a perfect process. Break the rules: fight the law.
4. This is as much about battle as about business.
5. Assume nothing. Make sure people keep their promises. Push yourselves push others. Stretch the possible.
6. Live off the land.
7. Your job isn’t done until the job is done.
8. Dangers
   Bureaucracy
   Personal ambition
   Energy takers vs. energy givers
   Knowing our weaknesses
   Don’t get too many things on the platter
9. It won’t be pretty.
10. If we do the right things we’ll make money damn near automatic.

https://www.readtheprofile.com/p/negotiation-techniques

• Discover the other person’s need
• Get to ‘no’ fast
• Practice ‘mirroring’ and ‘labeling’
• Lead your counterpart to your desired destination
• Appeal to your counterpart’s emotions
• Maintain emotional control using the ‘Late Night FM DJ voice’
• Let your counterpart give you the answers to the test

Bonus video

https://www.asimov.press/p/grow-mars

### Environmental Challenges and Solutions

**Extreme Temperatures:**
– **Challenge:** Mars experiences drastic temperature fluctuations, often dropping below -80 degrees Fahrenheit at night.
– **Solution:** Developing advanced insulation and heating systems for greenhouses to maintain a stable temperature suitable for plant growth.

**High Radiation Levels:**
– **Challenge:** Mars lacks a protective magnetic field, exposing the surface to harmful cosmic radiation.
– **Solution:** Building underground or shielded habitats and greenhouses using materials that block or absorb radiation to protect both plants and humans.

**Lack of Liquid Water:**
– **Challenge:** Water on Mars is mostly found as ice, with very little liquid water available.
– **Solution:** Melting ice deposits using solar or nuclear energy and developing efficient water recycling systems to provide a consistent water supply for agriculture.

### Technological Challenges and Solutions

**Soil Quality:**
– **Challenge:** Martian soil lacks the organic nutrients necessary for plant growth and may contain toxic compounds like perchlorates.
– **Solution:** Creating artificial soil by mixing Martian regolith with organic matter from Earth and employing bioremediation techniques to neutralize toxins.

**Atmospheric Conditions:**
– **Challenge:** Mars’ thin atmosphere is composed mainly of carbon dioxide, with very low pressure.
– **Solution:** Utilizing pressurized greenhouses enriched with oxygen and maintaining an Earth-like atmosphere to support plant respiration and growth.

**Energy Supply:**
– **Challenge:** Providing a reliable and sufficient energy source for all agricultural and habitat needs.
– **Solution:** Harnessing solar energy through large solar panel arrays and exploring nuclear energy options for continuous power supply.

### Legal Challenges and Solutions

**Space Treaties and Regulations:**
– **Challenge:** Current international space law, primarily governed by the Outer Space Treaty, lacks detailed regulations on the use of extraterrestrial resources.
– **Solution:** Developing new international agreements and frameworks to address resource use, property rights, and environmental protection on Mars.

**Property Rights:**
– **Challenge:** Establishing clear property rights for land and resources on Mars to prevent conflicts and ensure fair usage.
– **Solution:** Creating an international governing body to manage and regulate the allocation of Martian land and resources.

**Environmental Protection:**
– **Challenge:** Ensuring that Mars’ environment is not irreparably damaged by human activities.
– **Solution:** Implementing strict environmental guidelines and sustainability practices to minimize the ecological footprint of Mars colonization.

https://mbuffett.com/posts/maintaining-motivation

• External Triggers: Utilize notifications for new subscribers or feedback.
• Task Management: Leave tasks 90% complete to facilitate easy restarts.
• Product Use: Regularly use your own product to identify improvements.
• Pain Point Solutions: Continuously improve processes to address pain points.
• Breaks: Take regular breaks to prevent burnout.
• User Updates: Keep users informed about progress.
• Accountability Partners: Collaborate with someone to maintain accountability.
• Daily Productivity: Ensure no “zero days” of productivity.
• Flexible Work Hours: Work whenever motivation strikes, even at unconventional hours.

https://youtube.com/WGuVEVvB52c?si=48f235KjDgoaKFp

Raw hours

20 May, 2024

Andrew Quinn’s TILs

Doing is normally distributed; Learning is log-normal

https://hiandrewquinn.github.io/til-site/posts/doing-is-normally-distributed-learning-is-log-normal

CEO total compensation has outpaced US median annual income by 16,638%, on average.

US median annual income increased by just 4% on average ($2,108/year).

CEO total compensation had an average annual increase of 7% ($676,153/year

Since 1974, CEO compensation has grown 940% while the average worker’s compensation has risen just 12%. Meanwhile, the purchasing power of the dollar over that same period has decreased an average of 3% a year from inflation. As a result, the average worker can afford significantly less goods and services today than they could 50 years ago, including housing, clothes and food. The average worker is losing big time.

And for those who would argue the high cost of social welfare, corporate welfare will cost taxpayers almost $400 billion this year alone, which is 25,000% higher than the $1.6 billion that will be spent on social welfare.

Sources

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hannahawilliams_eattherich-activity-7198758131538046978-Vr2O

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/shannon-rasberry-3631025_since-1974-ceo-compensation-has-grown-940-activity-7198684770623496192-ne89

https://www.quora.com/Has-the-three-body-problem-a-direct-implication-against-to-a-determinist-conception-of-nature

It’s becoming clear that deterministic physics cannot easily answer all aspects of nature, at astronomical and biological level.
Is this a limitation in modern mathematics and/or tools. Or an actual barrier?

 https://www.linkedin.com/posts/vikas-choudhary-stemonef_the-%F0%9D%90%93%F0%9D%90%A1%F0%9D%90%AB%F0%9D%90%9E%F0%9D%90%9E-%F0%9D%90%81%F0%9D%90%A8%F0%9D%90%9D%F0%9D%90%B2-%F0%9D%90%8F%F0%9D%90%AB%F0%9D%90%A8%F0%9D%90%9B%F0%9D%90%A5%F0%9D%90%9E%F0%9D%90%A6-is-activity-7267621265148911618-3Zve

The 𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐞-𝐁𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐦 is one of the most enduring challenges in celestial mechanics, addressing the complex motion of three celestial bodies interacting under gravity. Governed by Newton’s laws of motion and the law of universal gravitation, it seeks to predict the paths of the bodies based on their masses, positions, and velocities. While the Two-Body Problem has exact solutions described by Kepler’s laws, introducing a third body leads to a nonlinear system of equations with no general analytical solution. This complexity arises from the chaotic interactions between the bodies, where even minute changes in initial conditions can lead to vastly different trajectories—a key aspect of chaos theory.

Historically, the Three-Body Problem has fascinated some of the greatest scientific minds. Isaac Newton laid its foundation, but it was Joseph-Louis Lagrange and Leonhard Euler who discovered specific cases with periodic or predictable solutions. Lagrange identified the Lagrange points, stable positions where the gravitational forces and motion of the three bodies balance, while Euler found collinear solutions, where the bodies align on a single line periodically. These solutions, though special cases, have profound implications for space exploration, such as identifying stable regions for satellites orbits.

Despite the chaotic nature of the Three-Body Problem, researchers have discovered periodic solutions where the bodies follow repetitive paths, returning to their original positions after a fixed time. In the 1970s, Michel Hénon, Roger A. Broucke, and George Hadjidemetriou identified a fascinating family of such solutions, now known as the Broucke–Hénon–Hadjidemetriou family. These solutions often involve symmetric and elegant trajectories, such as the figure-eight orbit, where three equal-mass bodies chase each other along a shared path resembling the number eight.

Other periodic solutions include equilateral triangle configurations (where the bodies maintain a triangular shape while rotating or oscillating) and collinear periodic orbits (where the bodies periodically align and reverse directions). These solutions highlight the intricate balance between gravitational forces and motion, offering glimpses of stability within the chaos.

While the Three-Body Problem laid the groundwork for understanding gravitational interactions, the study of higher n-body problems reveals the rich and chaotic dynamics of larger systems, offering critical insights into both cosmic structures and practical applications like orbital dynamics.