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- Suppose I wanted to kill a lot of pilots (2020) https://newsletter.butwhatfor.com/p/invert-always-invert-avoid-failure 67 comments
- Shel Silverstein and The Missing Piece Meets the Big O https://newsletter.butwhatfor.com/p/takeaway-tuesday-the-missing-piece 2 comments
- On Old Age (2020) https://newsletter.butwhatfor.com/p/takeaway-tuesday-on-old-age 11 comments
- Habits Maketh the Man and Un-Maketh Him, Too https://newsletter.butwhatfor.com/p/habits-maketh-man 7 comments
- The Great American Murder Ballad https://newsletter.butwhatfor.com/p/great-american-murder-ballad-murder-omie-wise 25 comments
- Feeling like a victim is a perfectly disastrous way to go through life https://newsletter.butwhatfor.com/p/takeaway-tuesday-facing-adversity-charlie-munger 136 comments
- We only talk about the third attack on Pearl Harbor https://newsletter.butwhatfor.com/p/an-attack-on-pearl-harbor 177 comments
- Suppose I Wanted to Kill a Lot of Pilots (2020) https://newsletter.butwhatfor.com/p/invert-always-invert-avoid-failure 123 comments
- A Stoic Philosopher in a Hanoi Prison https://newsletter.butwhatfor.com/p/takeaway-friday-a-stoic-philosopher 21 comments
- The Scotsman and his stories brought France much prosperity, for a time https://newsletter.butwhatfor.com/p/john-law-and-the-mississippi-bubble 12 comments
- Shel Silverstein and the Missing Piece Meets the Big O https://newsletter.butwhatfor.com/p/takeaway-tuesday-the-missing-piece 18 comments
- Takeaway Tuesday – Stand Up Straight with Your Shoulders Back https://newsletter.butwhatfor.com/p/takeaway-tuesday-stand-up-straight 6 comments
- How to Grow Old Well - Cicero's "De Senectute" - Knowing how to age and decline in capabilities is a key to living a good life, but the key to aging begins with the philosophies one lives with as a younger person https://newsletter.butwhatfor.com/p/takeaway-tuesday-on-old-age 24 comments philosophy
- TIL the US Navy conducted mock air attacks by aircraft carrier on Pearl Harbor in 1932 and 1938. In both exercises the attacks were successful, demonstrating the importance of air power over battleships. Both exercises were ignored by the US Navy but were studied carefully by the IJN. https://newsletter.butwhatfor.com/p/an-attack-on-pearl-harbor 5 comments navy
- Suppose I wanted to kill a lot of pilots, how would I do it - Thinking about how to best NOT achieve something can most efficiently lead you to the best way to achieve that thing https://newsletter.butwhatfor.com/p/invert-always-invert-avoid-failure 11 comments philosophy
- Why history should be studied by more than just historians: Knowing History and Knowing Who We Are by David McCullough https://newsletter.butwhatfor.com/p/takeaway-tuesday-knowing-history 7 comments history