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> This one always makes me smile. The thriving 90-year-olds I see are almost universally on very few medications. They’re polite about it, but they push back. They’ve been around long enough to know that not every recommendation has their best interests at heart. There’s a quiet confidence there— a refusal to be medicated into submission or frightened by every headline. They don’t get angry. They just gently, firmly, do things their way. As a physician who has seen both sides of this, I have enormous respect for it.

The 5 Secrets of People Who THRIVE Into Their 90s

I’ve seen thousands of patients over my career.

> My panic list included a bunch of soap. No one has bought more soap than me. I keep trying to make jokes about the pending return of the “unwashed masses”, how I’m well positioned for it. No one has enough context for my joke to land. They don’t realize how ahead of their reality I am. I hope it remains a joke, but I doubt it. > It used to be that, back in the day, smelling like anything other than sweat and body odor was a luxury. As were new clothes, and general ownership of objects. I don’t think we really understand how the proliferation of oil+gas allowed for the creation of more stuff, at a greater scale. Petrochemicals, more than anything else in the last 100 years, created abundance. We live in world of abundance that was engineered on the back of hydrocarbons.

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> Le détroit d’Ormuz, [...] un passage étroit, à peine une cicatrice dans la géographie du monde. [...] Le fermer, même sélectivement, suffit à faire trembler, et s’il se prolonge, à provoquer une récession et une inflation pouvant abattre l’économie planétaire.

Jacques Attali

Ne jamais attaquer sans être préparé au pire.   - Jacques Attali

Il est des règles simples que l’Histoire ne cesse de répéter, sans que jamais nous ne les écoutions vraiment. Parmi elles : ne jamais attaque...

> Dès 1971, Herbert Simon avait remarqué que «la quantité d’attention dont chacun dispose est inférieure à la quantité d’informations qui le sollicite ». Autrement dit, l’attention est devenue une denrée rare, et quand il y a rareté, il y a une place pour un marché. Elle a donc un prix croissant.

Jacques Attali

L’attention humaine, nouveau champ de bataille ? - Jacques Attali

Au XXIe siècle, le pouvoir ne réside plus seulement dans les territoires, le capital ou la technologie. Il se loge désormais dans une ressource ...

> Here is something for folks to consider: Markdown is the new hot coding language. Some folks write Python, some folks write TypeScript, and now, some folks write Markdown. Humans use compilers to convert C++ code into working apps. Now, humans can use Claude to convert Markdown into working apps.

Markdown is now a first-class coding language: Deal with it | InfoWorld

No, not markdown, English is the new hot coding language!

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"Regardless of the advancements in AI, the central question does not change: given scarcity, what should you do with your time, and what should you let the tools do?" https://mises.org/mises-wire/scarcity-and-machine-opportunity-cost-age-artificial-intelligence

Le dernier journaliste francophone en Iran témoigne en direct sur Tocsin ! - Siavosh Ghazi

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For deep relaxation, and to calm your nervous system, place the tip of your tongue behind your upper teeth, and stick the surface of your tongue to the roof of your mouth. Now, let it rest there, relax your lips...

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