As Isaiah Berlin once wrote, “foxes” are people who know many little things, and “hedgehogs” are people who know one big thing. But the internet rewards “magpies" - people who know nothing yet maintain a beautiful nest of ideas that aren’t theirs. www.theintrinsicpers…

The *only* way to reliably trigger dreams with specific content is via overtraining (triggering overfitting protection mechanisms). Here are some example reports:

An absolutely wild dream from a Redditor who over-practice flashcards, showcasing the "Tetris effect"

1. Jim Simons (RIP) was a great example of how you can ignore intellectual traps like the efficient market hypothesis. If you'd invested $100 in his Medallion Fund in 1988 you'd have 400 million today. Not one annual negative gross return to the fund. It should be impossible

On the new obsession with health from our elites (from my Jim Simons obituary)