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#095 - George MacGill - Mental Models 102 - The Decision Strikes Back
Modern Wisdom
What Do You Believe to Be True?
One of the first people to ever swim with me English Channel was a British potentially army officer. He did it wearing a sheepskin wool, covered in goose fat and drinking whiskey because it would keep him warm. When he was asked why did you not do the front crawl because the front crawl had been invented but recently before so not very long before. You know what his answer was. It would be unbecoming of a gentleman to put my head under the water. So he did the whole English Channel fucking breaststroke. Wow. I love that story. But on the off-ourgonal four point, one thing that's particularly interesting it ties into Peter Thiel question of what do you
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