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I'm a cardiologist. I've held dying hearts in my hands in the cath lab at 3 AM. And I need to tell you something that changes everything about how we prevent heart attacks. For decades, the entire field was built on one target: lower LDL cholesterol. Statins save lives — that's...

Nassim Taleb: the richest man in the Roman Empire woke up every morning pretending he was poor. Seneca had more to lose than to gain from his wealth - so he rehearsed losing it. Every so often he'd live on bread and water as if shipwrecked, just to make the downside familiar...

Nassim Taleb: you don't need to predict the future. You need an option on it. Thales got mocked for being a poor philosopher, so he put tiny deposits on every olive press in town before the harvest - nothing lost if he was wrong, a fortune if he was right. "The opposite of...

Nassim Taleb built his fortune by realizing that to survive wall street, you must be perfectly comfortable looking like an absolute idiot speaking to microsoft's top engineers, he shared the exact math from 1987 that built his empire: "it started with the crash in 1987. i...

KAPLAY.js is a 2D game library for JavaScript and TypeScript designed to make game development feel as fun as playing a game, with a built-in web-based editor. - Composes game objects from simple, powerful components like rect, pos, area, and body - Includes a web-based...