Electrical Engineer | Risk Taker | Aspiring Erudite | Trying to live happily in a world that I don’t understand | #RWRI
Thessaloniki, Greece
Joined January 2011
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A few days ago, feeling nostalgic and seeing no new Christmas episode yet, I re-listened to last year’s special on the Three Wise Men. But then this new special dropped, and it is even better! Thanks a lot, @EmpirePodUK @DalrympleWill @SamDalrymple123
🎄🎄🎄Welcome to @EmpirePodUK Christmas Special!🎄🎄🎄
Who Stole Father Christmas?
The true story of the Heist of the Relics of St.Nicholas
In which we travel with @SamDalrymple123 to the mysterious empty tomb of St.Nicholas of Myra in Lycia, modern Turkey
Paraphrasing Kierkegaard, Morality should be judged backwards against what was then knowable, but must be lived forwards (with extra credit for those who reach beyond their time)
Picking up pennies in front of the steamroller
I've made $12,399.72 in 2025 from $MSTR but have never owned a single share.
I've sold puts on it 40X. Rinse/repeat.
The average CSP strike price $339.56
That's an annualized ROC of 54.8%
There are so many ways to make $$$ in the market. This is simply one of them.
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The worst part is that one day the kids will find out. And when they do, they’ll realize their childhood was outsourced by someone blogging about “skin in the game” without ever having any. Beware of people selling you virtue without paying the price
i once worked as a live-in nanny for 3 small kids in hawaii. the parents were burnt out and didn’t really like parenting. they had 2 nannies covering 7am-8pm 7 days a week. the dad worked a few hours a day and the mom didn’t work.
years later i saw the dad had started a blog about parenting and financial independence. in the blog he said that self-employment was important to him bc it allowed him to spend all of his time with his kids. he said that in over a decade of parenting, he’d never so much as hired a babysitter for his kids.
anyway, there’s a good chance ppl trying to sell you some lifestyle thing are lying thru their teeth.
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Sitting for hours daily shrinks your brain, even if you exercise.
New 7-year study (n=404):
→ Faster hippocampal atrophy
→ Worse memory performance
→ Slower processing speed
87% met exercise guidelines but STILL declined.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The above tweet is misleading: the link between sedentary behavior and neurodegeneration is demonstrated in older adults only, according to the study.
alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…
Finally arrived; it’s going to be a busy weekend 😁
P.S. I wish I had asked for a signed copy @ole_b_peters @alex_adamou
10 writers whose books I’ve read five or more of:
1: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
2: Antony Beevor
3: Albert Camus
4: Hélène Glykatzi-Ahrweiler
5: Robert Greene
6: Walter Isaacson
7: Nikos Kazantzakis
8: Friedrich Nietzsche
9: J.R.R. Tolkien
10: Stephen King
10 writers whose books I’ve read five or more of:
1- Balzac
2- Hanna Mina
3- Dostoyevsky
4- Anthony Trollope
5- Emile Zola
6- Roger Martin du Gard
6- Alberto Moravia
7- Frederic Dard
8- Graham Greene
9- Lawrence Durrell
10- Sommerset Maugham
etc.
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1/2 Currently reading the Greek translation of Making sense of chaos, and I am constantly catching myself translating terms from Greek back to English. E.g. ενισχυτική μάθηση -> reinforcement learning, οικολογική ορθολογικότητα -> ecological rationality
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Whenever eating out in Greek restaurants abroad, most of the times it’s disappointing .
My (unverified/untested) theory is that 1. the person who starts a Greek restaurant abroad loses track of developments in the country, and 2. Quality of ingredients is worse
This is every cuisine. It's partly ingredients but it's mostly competition. Greece is filled with geeks who know what good Greek food is. If you can't serve it you'll go out of business. Whereas in America it doesn't have to be good because less people know what good Greek food is and it's competing against a hundred other foreign cuisines
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Shortly before Daniel Kahneman died last March, he emailed friends a message: He was choosing to end his own life in Switzerland. Some are still struggling with his choice. wsj.com/arts-culture/books/d… via @WSJ
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