Aristotelis Economides

The first hour of using Claude Code feels like magic.

We spend most of our lives in cities.

Search “will llms agi” on Google and you will find completely contradicting opinions.

Every field, every era, has one.

Navigating advice is tricky.

Note: As an experiment, I have not taken notes or highlights while reading this book.

A few months ago, I attended a friend’s housewarming party and ended up striking a conversation with a university colleague.

Most people like the concept of voting.

Rich people often don’t do as they teach Success is a process, not an event True wealth, money, happiness Choices, luck, ownership, accountability, control “Normal” life and being an employee Being an employee comes with a limited financial ceiling Become…

For nearly every topic, idea, argument, belief, there are a 1000 points of view.

After months away from biking, I got a new bike last week.

Yesterday, my girlfriend asked me whether I’d like scrambled eggs or an omelet for breakfast.

Author’s opening remark: It is impossible to compress the entire human history into a 100 pages of conclusions.

Aim for 0 to 1 improvements The dot-com bubble made people cautious of innovation and big thinking Competition is usually bad for a business Monopolies exaggerate their competition, competitive businesses exaggerate themselves The value of a business today

Writing is a tool for crystallizing one’s distilled thoughts through language.

My Notes Creativity doesn’t come as a lightning bolt Good work doesn’t come out of nowhere.

Writing has been historically used as a means of understanding the world around us, and there is extensive research supporting the benefits of writing as a tool for thinking.

Context: Derek Sivers started a business by mistake, because he wanted to sell his music online, but he had no deal with a big record label.

Context: Benjamin Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of United States.

Understanding the Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma The entire book is based on a classic Game Theory problem called Prisoner’s Dilemma, so I will first try to explain the idea behind it, before we get to the book notes themselves.