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title: Week 31, 2024
issue: 31
year: 2024
weekNumber: 31
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created: 2024-08-04T12:00:00
modified: 2025-08-19T07:10:10
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# Wisdom I Pondered This Week

* “All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.” — Alexandre Dumas
* “No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.” — Carl Jung
* “The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.” — Nicholas Nassim Taleb
* [You get to choose your own worth—whether you are the $20,000 rare stone or the $2 rock. This, I believe, is the most important choice of your life. So, choose wisely.](https://www.sahilbloom.com/newsletter/the-most-important-choice-of-your-life)
* “Treat the world as your laboratory and your work as an experiment.” — Arnold Schwarzenegger

# Things I Learned This Week

* 日本 Audio-Technica (鐵三角)
* A bumper sticker is an adhesive-backed strip of paper for sticking onto the rear bumper of an automobile, usually bearing a tourist advertisement, slogan, joke, etc.
* 青陽辣椒 (청양고추) 是韓國培育的一種辣椒，外表為綠色，細長且尖，比一般的韓國辣椒還要辣
* Napoleon 拿破崙
* Galileo 伽利略