The Pali Canon is the collected wisdom of Theravada Buddhism. It contains about 1.5 million words. All Buddhists know the Four Noble Truths. That’s fewer than 100 words and gives you a lifetime of things to work on.
The King James Bible is about 780,000 words. If all you did every day was live the Golden Rule, you’d be off to an awesome start.
Harry Markowitz was a polymath who studied and understood economics, mathematics, physics, and philosophy, among other things. Understanding his magnum opus, Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT), takes some chops. Or you could just put your money in a diversified model portfolio and call it good.
More than 500 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube, and 350,000 stories are shared on Instagram every minute. Something like 600 petabytes of data is uploaded to the internet every hour (probably more than that). It’s no longer an information problem; it’s a navigation problem.
Whatever you share or sell, it’s good to know the book. It’s valuable and powerful to be the person people trust for curation and signposts. Help us get started and encourage us to keep going.