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Douglas Craig
@Douglas9162
“Everything is what it is and not another thing”
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Oct 9, 2018 • 63 tweets • 8 min read
A thread on some highlights/notes I took from the book "The Tyranny of Metrics" by @jerryzmuller (~60 things) 1) Gaming the metrics occurs in every realm. Gaming is only one class of problems that inevitably arise when using performance metrics as the basis of reward or sanction. There are things that can be measured and there are things that are worth measuring.
Jul 4, 2018 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
Doing some book threads on the plane has not gone to plan, had a rather traumatic/hilarious/crazy flight I was on the Glasgow-Las Vegas flight, it's 10 hours long. The benefit of this route is convenience and it's very cheap. It's normally rowdy however this flight was another level.
Jun 19, 2018 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
This video from a guy who went to prison from 19 to 24 for making a threat online to bomb someone on runescape (a video game) while drunk is fascinating

It seems pretty obvious he would never actually do it however Feds sent him to prison for 5 years In prison he wrote 166 songs, read 1000 books, was inspired by Malcolm X. Said that prison is the most soul destroying environment with zero attempt at rehabilitation. Took him two years to stop hating himself however after that tried to use the time for self improvement
Jun 6, 2018 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Travelling is rooted in repetition and convexity, visiting one place twice is more interesting than two places once Technically I have been in five countries in the last two weeks, however in each for less than a couple of days. Is this more "well travelled" than someone who spent two weeks in one place?
Jun 1, 2018 • 21 tweets • 3 min read
The downside of reading: a self-critique 1/ Reading books is a form of procrastinating for me
May 20, 2018 • 63 tweets • 5 min read
A thread on some highlights/notes I took from the book 'The Art of Worldly Wisdom' by Baltasar Gracián 1/ For context, this was written in 1647. It is a book of wisdom in the form of 300 maxims, this thread is my notes.
May 16, 2018 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
It is #mentalhealthawarenessweek. A big problem of mine was/is being extremely anxious in decisions. I was often neurotically overthinking to the point of doing and achieving nothing which is very bad for mental health. If this is you, then I would recommend five books: 1/ Meditations (Aurelius) – how to act well in an ideal way, and how thinking makes things as they are. This is good for changing your perspective of events
May 12, 2018 • 53 tweets • 6 min read
A thread on some highlights/notes I took from the book 'Meditations' by Marcus Aurelius 1/ For context, Marcus Aurelius was Roman Emperor from 161 to 180 AD. As Roman Emperor Meditations was him recording his private notes to himself and ideas on Stoic philosophy.
Apr 25, 2018 • 77 tweets • 7 min read
A thread on the things I took from "what I wish I knew when I was 20" by @tseelig (~75 things) 1) All problems can be viewed as opportunities for creative solutions
Mar 28, 2018 • 77 tweets • 9 min read
A thread on the things I took from @realDonaldTrump's book "The Art of the Deal" (part two, ~70 things) Part One is here:
Mar 28, 2018 • 115 tweets • 14 min read
A thread on the things I took from @realDonaldTrump's book "The Art of the Deal" (part one ~100 things) 1/ “I don’t do it for the money. I’ve got enough, much more than ill ever need. I do it to do it. Deals are my art form.”
Mar 23, 2018 • 11 tweets • 1 min read
A thread on some things I learned working my other part time job as a Receptionist at my university 1/ Giving directions is very difficult. If you want to see if someone is good at explaining things test their direction giving skills
Mar 11, 2018 • 39 tweets • 6 min read
This is a short and interesting read by @mich261213. Used to be Russia's richest man until he got chucked him in prison for some time. It's about some people he met in his 10 years in prison. I shall post some thoughts tomorrow 1/ Khodorkovsky (Ходорковский) on the folk he met in Russian prisons, he writes about roughly twenty people.
Mar 7, 2018 • 107 tweets • 11 min read
A thread on Seeking Wisdom by Peter Bevelin. Things I took from the book (Part One, ~100 things) 1) “a man who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it, is committing another mistake” – Confucius
Feb 28, 2018 • 157 tweets • 15 min read
A thread on things I took/learnt from @RayDalio's book "Principles" (~150 things) 1- Line 2 of book - “I’m a ‘dumb shit’ who doesn’t know much relative to what I need to know. Whatever success ive had in life has had more to do with my knowing how to deal with my not knowing anything I know”
Feb 26, 2018 • 32 tweets • 3 min read
Thread on what I took from @SPressfield's book "The War of Art" (~30 things) - relevant to those in creative endeavours, and for those who procrastinate too much 1- “the enemy is a very good teacher”
Feb 25, 2018 • 105 tweets • 11 min read
A thread on Zero to One by @peterthiel - things I took/learned from the book (~100 things) 1-Every moment in business only happens once. The next Zuckerberg won’t make Facebook, nor the next Gates make Microsoft. If you are copying these guys, you aren’t learning from them.
Feb 20, 2018 • 104 tweets • 9 min read
Have slept on Skin in the Game by @nntaleb, here is a thread about some things I learned/liked most SITG is about 4 things: uncertainty, symmetry in human affairs, information in transacations and rationality in complex systems. These 4 are best solved through SITG