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Notes on Poor Charlie's Almanack by Charles Munger and Peter Kaufman - Max Mednik

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Notes on Poor Charlie's Almanack by Charles Munger and Peter Kaufman. Over the last few months, I've been reading through. Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger. And today I finally finished it. It represents a pretty full collection of all of Munger's public lectures and most influential publications, a true compendium of practical wisdom. Below are my personal biggest takeaways and notes. 1 portrait of Charles munger. Cicero, on a life well spent. Pride in a job well done.

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Notes on Smartcuts by Shane Snow - Max Mednik

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Notes on Smartcuts by Shane Snow. Based on Noah Kagan's recommendation on his interview with Tim Ferriss. I just finished reading. Smartcuts: How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate Success. The book was a fun, quick tour of various techniques used by unconventional "hackers" who achieved success much more quickly than traditionally thought possible. Smart shortcuts to doing stuff way faster. Smartcuts not just shortcuts which can be amoral. Smartcuts are shortcuts with integrity. Failures caused m...

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Notes on Daily Rituals: How Artists Work by Mason Currey - Max Mednik

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Notes on Daily Rituals: How Artists Work by Mason Currey. At Tim Ferriss's (and others') recommendation, I read and greatly enjoyed Daily Rituals: How Artists Work. By Mason Currey. Like Tim (and Mason), I'm fascinated by how productive people organize their time, and what strategies they use to fight " resistance. My biggest takeaways were the following:. Most of the artists do think that adding structure and discipline helps them get their work done, not just relying on inspiration and mood. I loved th...

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Notes on Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond - Max Mednik

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Notes on Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond. I just finished reading. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. By Jared M. Diamond, and I must admit it was quite a slog. The book is long, detailed, and not too entertaining. It was recommended by Charles Munger in his. Is it due to racial differences or something else? Differences between lifestyles in societies. Why did wealth and power become distributed as they are now? Different rates of development. 2 a natural experiment. Fertile C...

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Résumé - Max Mednik

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To download my professional résumé. Stanford BS Computer Science and MS Management Science and Engineering and Design Thinking Bootcamp for Executives at d.school and Graduate School of Business. Principal and Founder of. Past start-ups: Ridacto (legal technology). Previously Senior Software Engineer and Tech Lead at Google. Internships and part-time work at BetterWorks. And Stanford Residential Computing. In American Journal of Physics. Fluent in English, Russian, French, Spanish, Italian.

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I am a co-founder at Emobie Labs. Which is led by my wife, Lindsey Arnold. We are bringing affordable social robots to children for the purposes of therapy, tutoring, and play. I started my own trading firm in Seattle called High Amplitude Trading Capital ( HatCap. From August, 2008 to March, 2014, I was a Software Engineer at AMA Capital. Page for more details, and feel free to contact me to discuss it further. From March, 2008 to July, 2008, I was a Software Engineer at Intentional Software. Overhauled...

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7 Lessons I Learned From Trees - Max Mednik

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7 Lessons I Learned From Trees. Last month I was lucky to visit the Sequoia, Kings Canyon, and Yosemite National Parks for the first time. It was relaxing, educational, and fun. And I learned a thing or two from the trees. What can we learn from their survival? 2 A giant sequoia comes from a tiny cone. In the picture above, the cone for the giant sequoia is the small egg-shaped one, whereas the other cones that are much bigger come from (. Seedlings inside to allow reproduction. 5 People tried to cut dow...

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Notes on Irrationally Yours by Dan Ariely - Max Mednik

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Notes on Irrationally Yours by Dan Ariely. I really enjoyed Dan Ariely's last two books. So I decided to read his latest which just recently came out,. Irrationally Yours: On Missing Socks, Pickup Lines, and Other Existential Puzzles. This one was a very short, fun read made up of Dan's answers to reader questions in his weekly. Art and joy of saying no. When get request assume it is for next week. Would u cancel for it? If have to cancel another activity for it, would u? Think of it as museum. To partic...

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Notes on Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely - Max Mednik

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Notes on Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely. I've been going through Dan Ariely's books pretty much in reverse order, and I just finished reading the last one to complete my collection:. Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions. Quick fast pain better than slow low pain? His research showed no for bandage removal. Science as area where anyone can come up with alternative theory and empirical test to check it. Humans rarely choose on absolute terms. Herding and self herding.