Sexy 6: Thoreau is a liar and the Mozart of Math

Edition #2: Learn 6 things in 60 seconds

🕊 TWEET

du @thedulab

Knew of a guy in college who rejected a prestigious banking offer to try and be a Navy SEAL. At the time, my ignorance couldn't fathom how someone could do that. Now, I totally understand. So many games in life. So many types of rewards. Play your own levels. Choose your own W's.

gaut @0xgaut

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Guilty as charged.

❝ QUOTE

Exaggerate the importance of what work we do; and yet how much is not done by us.

Henry David Thoreau

Thoreau didn’t really live isolated in the woods writing Walden. Sure, he lived in a cabin in the woods. But he was a 20-minute walk from his mother’s house and had many friends over for dinner. Often time a few times a week.

He exaggerated this “loner lifestyle.”

Just how your SJW friend buys Nike and goes on 15 flights a year and your “prioritize happiness” friend hits up their ex every weekend.

We want to feel good about ourselves by telling others stories that sound good. But very few of us actually live up to the expectations we set on ourselves.

📊 COMPANY: MicroAcquire

MicroAcquire is a marketplace to buy and sell software businesses.

Founded by Andrew Gazdecki in July of 2020 Microacquire has facilitated 100s of startups acquisitions worth $500m+.

It’s cool for two reasons:

1. You can buy the software business you’ve dreamed of running

2. It’s hard for bootstrapped startup founders to sell their startup. Either they sell it for pennies on the dollar, pay a banker a large fee, or let the business die. Microacquire changes that.

Businesses sold on MicroAcquire: @Jumpstudios a project management app for content creators, pine-raffle.com allows you to make raffles for your customers, and wordrodeo lets you create unique wordle puzzles to share with friends.

Some cool businesses listed: e-com website selling middle-eastern food in the USA and Subscription-based iOS and Android Viral Social App doing $8.6m in revenue

👩🏽 PERSON: Terrance Tao (1975 - Alive)

Terrance Tao is a second-generation Chinese Australian who is known as the Mozart of Math. He makes LeBron’s prodigal rise look like an accident:

• Attended University level classes at 9 years old

• One of three children in the history of the Johns Hopkins' Study of Exceptional Talent program to score 700 or greater on the SAT math section at 8 years old.

• Youngest full-time professor in the history of UCLA

I could list his mathematical contributions but I won’t understand what I am writing and you won’t understand what you are reading.

And maybe that’s the problem.

What if we celebrated Mr. Tao the way we celebrate Yao or Mozart? Would it make a difference? Would more kids want to be mathematicians instead of hoopers and musicians?

If you want to learn more about Tao, here is a 10 min. YouTube video.

✍🏼 WORD: Turgid

Turgid → excessively embellished in style or language.

Comes from from Latin word turgidus. It was mainly used by doctors to describe swollen body parts.

I love the way turgid sounds. Next time your friend is acting over the top or being boujee, tell them they are being turgid.

🤭 MEME:

If this dude. is 12 years old, my children will never play football.