Saturday 7

Published: Sat, 05/03/25

Updated: Mon, 05/05/25

Good morning!

Here's your Saturday 7 roundup!

🎓 How I got A's in school:

I was a motivated student. But I wasn't naturally gifted. And perhaps that was the gift.

To compete, I unknowingly cultivated a knack for applying Pareto's Principle to every subject.

Over time, I got good at teasing out the 20% of stuff that would yield 80% of the results. Usually the distribution was even more skewed, like 20% effort yielding 95% of what I needed to know.

It became a lifelong strategy to overcome what I view as a massive limitation:

Specialists tend to know a lot about a little.
Generalists tend to know a little about a lot.

Specialists can't see the forest through the trees and therefore can't connect dots. Generalists can see lots of dots but can't zoom in enough to make meaningful conclusions and fall prey to spurious connections.

By applying Pareto's Principle, you can become a "Generalist Specialist" and maximize your knowledge surface area.

🏃‍♂️‍➡️ Will you sprint again:

There is a statistic that claims if you are older than 35 there is a 95% chance you'll never sprint again.

I don't think it's accurate, but the spirit of the stat seems correct.

As we age, the intensity of exercise declines. Or, do we age because we stop exercising intensely?

This lady obliterates the statistic.

🎂 Why you always have room for dessert:

You don't have to "save room for dessert" because there's always room.

The science behind having room for dessert.

💡 How to drive:

Life is noisy. Try this for a week: Drive in silence.

Weird, I know.

But it’s a great time to "meditate" without the guilt of feeling like you’re doing nothing.

🧠 What quote I've been thinking about:

"Every time you show up as someone else to please another person you’re rejecting yourself."

— Joe Hudson, on being yourself

📈 Is this a Better Strategy:

A new bitcoin company has entered the arena. Twenty One Capital looks to acquire 42,000 bitcoin, which would make it the third-largest public bitcoin treasury in the world.

Their plan is to offer bitcoin financial services, like lending and debt products.

To me, it sounds like their plan is to be a bitcoin bank, kind of like Strategy, but perhaps a "Better Strategy" — at least that's how they're branding it.

It'll be interesting to watch how these companies compete, as well as all the other public US companies that are currently sitting on about $3.7 trillion in cash and cash equivalents.