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Survivor bias is a form of selection bias

Selection bias is when you are doing a statistical analysis but you don’t get a good random sample because of your poor selection criteria

During World War II, the statistician Abraham Wald took survivorship bias into his calculations when considering how to minimize bomber losses to enemy fire.[10] Researchers from the Center for Naval Analyses had conducted a study of the damage done to aircraft that had returned from missions, and had recommended that armor be added to the areas that showed the most damage.[citation needed] Wald noted that the study only considered the aircraft that had survived their missions; any bombers which had been shot down or otherwise lost had logically also been rendered unavailable for assessment. The holes in the returning aircraft, then, represented areas where a bomber could take damage and still return home safely. Wald proposed that the Navy reinforce areas where the returning aircraft were unscathed[10]:88, since those were the areas that, if hit, would cause the plane to be lost. His work is considered seminal in the then-nascent discipline of operational research.[11]

Best way to tie your shoes

How to Lace - 

Evenly tighten all the way down

Over-under (x-marks the spot)

Double Helix

Ukrainian style

This simply turns the laces upside down so that you have a pre-made starting knot and two loops even when your shoes are untied

How to Tie - 

Fast and Secure

Fastest shoelace knot is the “Ian Knot”  

More secure is the “Secure Ian Knot”

Allow people to sue for addiction recovery

How can we handle dangerous and addictive substances?

Current problems:

Making substances illegal:

Creates black markets that lead to crime and abuse.

Funds criminal gangs

Addicts are criminalized

People who are addicted are at the mercy of the dealer with no recourse

Costs a lot of money to enforce

Difficult to enforce

Creates privacy issues

Constitutional?

Moral? I think it is immoral to make substances illegal

I think we can all agree that illegal substances generally do a lot of harm so if we don’t make them illegal then how will society handle it?

Many people argue that from a moral perspective if people want to take addictive substances it is up to them.

But as I’ve thought about the issue and listened to debates from different experts I think that is only true when the person is able to make the decision themselves.

For example, we generally don’t allow children to make their own decisions until they become adults.

I would argue that when people are addicted they have lost the ability to make a rational decision and therefore are no longer truly making the decision themselves.

I think this is proven by the fact that many people try to quit but can’t. If they are trying to quit isn’t it their decision to not do it?

I think that they should be treated less like adults making a rational decision and more like a child that is not liable for their decisions as much.

So who is liable? Well if an adult/company influenced a child to do something, the adult/company is held at least partially liable for the outcome. I think the same could be applied to addictive substances.

Solution?

Legalize all substances

Allow addicts to sue the seller of the substance for rehabilitation costs

Also apply to gambling/pornography/etc

Will this work?

I imagine that companies selling drugs would have to be very careful to not allow their customers to be addicted. I can only guess as to how they would handle this but off the top of my head I have a few predictions

Creating/breeding for less addictive substances

Monitoring of Customers, if they suspect that a person is getting addicted then they might require a doctor or specialist of some kind to sign off on letting them purchase more

Go out of business all-together

Benefits:

Enforcement would be basically non-existent

Black market would be greatly reduced

Potentially helpful drugs that are currently illegal could help more people (cannabis)

People that do get addicted would be helped

No need for the government to violate privacy. If you buy drugs from someone you know who they are if you need to sue them.

Another benefit would be that companies that make addictive pharmaceuticals would also be able to be sued. If this had been in place the opioid crisis I believe would’ve been much less. And at least the companies responsible wouldn’t have made a killing off of the problem that they caused.

Many people have issues handling their email.

I think the biggest problems come when people use their inboxes as a type of to-do list.

This allows anyone to add things to your to-do list by simply emailing you.

Email is really a communication and information sharing tool.

You could use it to give you ideas of what to put on your to-do list but your to-do list should be separate.

Method 1 - Inbox 0

Idea, you must sort your email before you read any of them, clear out the clutter!

Unsubscribe from recurring emails

Search for all emails from the same place and delete them all at once

Archive all your important emails like bank statements and such. It might be worth creating an automatic filter to archive these

At this point you should only have emails that you actually want to read and because you’ve seen all of them you can go ahead and start reading/replying to the most important ones.

Remember that just because someone emailed you does not mean that you have to respond or take any action. Guard your time by guarding which tasks you decide to do otherwise others will quickly fill your time with things that are important to them

Method 2 - Ignore method

Idea : If I’m not paying you or you’re not paying me then I’m not going to respond to your email

Use your email as more of a reference. If someone wants to get a hold of you they can call or text. If they then send you attachments or more information in an email then you can quickly find it and use the information

On the whole you just ignore your email. Think of it more as like a facebook newsfeed, you could scroll and scroll and never get to the bottom.

Check your email once a day and only reply to people that are paying you or that you are paying

Ignore everything else

My method - Hybrid

I generally ignore my email most of the time but then once or twice a month I will go in and get to inbox 0.

This works well for me because most of the time my emails aren’t urgent and if they are I just take care of them as they come. (either by responding or adding them to my to-do list) and then once or twice a month I go through all my emails and get to inbox 0. This way I can find anything interesting that might not have been important enough at the time to worry about but that I would like to put on my to-do list.

The game was invented in China more than 2,500 years ago and is believed to be the oldest board game continuously played to the present day.

Go was considered one of the four essential arts of the cultured aristocratic

-Instrument

-Go

-Calligraphy

-Painting

Backgammon is a "man vs. fate" contest, with chance playing a strong role in determining the outcome. Chess, with rows of soldiers marching forward to capture each other, embodies the conflict of "man vs. man". Because the handicap system tells Go players where they stand relative to other players, an honestly ranked player can expect to lose about half of their games; therefore, Go can be seen as embodying the quest for self-improvement, "man vs. self".

http://online-go.com/

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.zenandroid.onlinego&hl=en_US

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PTXdR8hLlQ

The cultural norm is currently that we work until 65 and then retire. This is looked at as everyone’s dream, work hard your whole life so that you can retire at 65 and just relax the rest of your life.

Is this really what we want and for that matter, is it what actually happens?

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/more-people-are-returning-to-work-after-retiringand-theyre-happy-about-it-2020-01-31

Many people are returning to work after “retiring” sometimes several times.

So if the holy grail is that we can give up working at 65 then why do so many people continue working long past that?

I believe that we all want to find meaning in our lives. Working is a way that we help others and contribute to the world. If this is true, why would we ever want to stop?

I think the reason the idea of retirement is so appealing is because when we “retire” it means that we no longer have to work, any working we do after that is a choice.

Once we don’t feel like we have to work, any work we do is much more enjoyable and fulfilling.

So why do we need to wait until 65 to get to this point?

We don’t!

Let’s change our mindset, instead of focusing on retiring sometime in the future, what if we focused on becoming financially independent as soon as possible.

What is financial independence? I define it as when you have enough money, or passive income, that if you decided that you didn’t want to work tomorrow, you wouldn’t be stressed about it, at least not from a financial perspective. 

Maybe this means that you could start working part time at your current job and still have enough money to get by for a year while you worked on a side-business you’ve always wanted to do.

Maybe it means that you can take a lower paying job that gives you more meaning and still be able to support your family.

Maybe it means you can simply work for non-profits the rest of your life with no pay.

Maybe it's just taking a year off from your current employment

The point is that you are free! If you don’t want to go to work you don’t have to! You only work when and on what you want to!

It might take you until your 65 to get to that point but it also might only take you until you’re 30 or anywhere in between. 

So how do you become financially independent? Good question!

I’m not anywhere close right now but it is my goal to get there as soon as possible.

A few tips I’ve heard from people who are financially independent:

Start saving... a lot! Many people start saving as much as 50% or more of their income. Just think, if you saved 50% of your income, you would technically only need to work half the year!

If you save 50% for 5 years think of how much money you would have!

Invest wisely, investing is a great way to increase your savings at a faster rate, but remember that if you aren’t getting good advice and really researching and learning about investments you could very easily lose a lot of money. 

You will probably lose money on many of your investments but you want to learn from your mistakes and get better over time.

Either increase your income or decrease your spending or both! This allows you to save and invest even more.

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A place for every thing and everything in its place -Benjamin Franklin

Start big picture. Instead of finding a specific place for everything find a home for categories of things. Food in the pantry, dishes in this cupboard, pots and pans in this one.

Once you have the basic areas for things you can start to organize each area more specifically. Canned goods here, fresh stuff there, etc

No point in starting with the specifics when often you end up changing it all around anyway.

When organizing an area, make sure that you only get out enough stuff that you will have enough time to put it all away.

Ask yourself if it’s worth finding a place for the thing/storing it. If not, decide if you want to sell it, recycle it, give it away, or throw it away

Have a place for homeless items

Pick one area and anything that is not in its home:

Homes:

Make it easy to put away. If you want something, you will take the time to get it but if it’s hard to put away then you often just stick it somewhere

If you’re not sure where something should go, ask yourself “if I needed this, where would be the first place I would look?” Usually this is a good indicator of where it’s home should be.

The more frequently you use something the more convenient it should be to get it out. If you only need something a few times a year, you can put it in an inconvenient spot but if you use something every day it should be easy to get to.

If you use things together, think about putting them close by

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“According to the American Dental Association, you should floss at least once a day in order to maintain optimal oral health and prevent gum disease. If your gums are really healthy, flossing every other day or 3-4 times per week is fine. If you ever see any blood on your floss, just increase your frequency of flossing until any bleeding stops.”

https://www.brigliadentalgroup.com/blog/oral-hygiene/how-often-should-you-floss-your-teeth/

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Purpose of Money (To store the value of our working time)

Attributes of a good currency

How to create a true stable coin (Match Supply with Demand)

Tie to the worth of human time

Design of System

Stable Coin - Tempus (Time)

Shares

Increasing supply

Decreasing supply

Proof of Human Work

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y3KQjNfxk73xKQQEx3uLIuglmGEp5TeRTJAu13lhHSs/edit#

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Recurring:

Expenses that happen on a regular basis that you are committed to pay

Reserve:

Expenses that you know will happen but you're not sure exactly when or how much they will be.

Discretionary:

Everything else

Steps:

Track your expenses and subtract them from your saving categories