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Updated on Dec 15, 2021: added Jeff Nippard's video

Here lies most of the stuff I consider worthy to remember from the videos I stumbled upon on the web.

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Personalities

In Soviet Russia they used to make pupils write 12 pages of text without writing or grammar mistakes... in 2 languages: Russian AND Ukranian.
Quality means perfection for Alexander. He takes the "hero" perspective of pushing quality to its most extreme limit (because quality is usually seen as a spectrum tending towards lack of flaws).
Alexander used to know at least 1000 poems by heart.

For Jung, all religious ideas ale equally valid as expressions of human psychic life. Also, all religious "truths" and objects are simply psychological.

Maybe this is connected with Nietzsche's claim that all philosophers do is articulate their being through their writing, not discovering absolute truths.

For Jung, the knowledge of God is self-knowledge. Kinda like for Jesus: the kingdom of God is within you.

The living being vs. the rational being: The living being does things to continue living as its top priority, the rational being does not keep the same top priority. Nietzsche believed that people are not rational (philosophers included).
Nietzsche thought that every philosopher is articulating their being through their writing, not discovering absolute truths — not thinking, but revealing (like a story).
The nascent form of the Will to Power: For every impulse is imperious, and as such, attempts to philosophize.

Nietzsche says that these impulses/instincts are alive and are trying to live (expand, climb the dominance/competence hierarchy), ergo dominate.

There might be no distinction between climbing the social ladder and the Will to Power. But, Peterson asks, power in relationship to what?

We are small, we do not really matter. But, we are also miraculous and have been gifted with the power to make stuff matter. Life is really short. So, we are free and pressed by time to make things nice and nice things: There are so many dawns which have not yet shed their light.

Chris does not really bother with the meaning of life, but the universe has a lot of value.

Intimacy nails you down to the ground, it makes you sane. It detracts from the perfection one can attain while being alone, but it offers you something more.
You need a goal that is noble and meaningful enough to make the petty worries of daily life meaningless.

An argument for in-house software: you can't fix Windows' problems, you must pressure Windows to fix it, which takes more time.

Code generation can be used to set strict standards across systems.
One programming language for every 4000 engineers.
Starting with the API definition — which is seen as the backbone of the entire software system (excluding infrastructure) that a company provides and/or uses — allows for major system modifications (e.g. incorporating GDPR regulation) with a few language-neutral JSON/YAML/etc. line changes.
If you start with the entire system being defined as an API you can store that API definition in Git (so you can revert back changes that would otherwise take more time to fix, collaborate, etc.) and do CI tasks on it: run linters, test the API, etc. For sure there are more pros and cons on this, like being able to understand how your system works without needing to look at MBs of code written in different programming languages (that you might not know). Cons? Not really a con, but: you still need to enforce code to only use defined interfaces to communicate with other services.
The scenario described above defines the API specification as the (single?) source of truth for the system design. If, then, the system specification passes your tests (e.g. querying for a random user returns an error), you can also be sure that the system code passes those tests.
It's language studies 101: the language you learn shapes how you think. In this case: the communication protocol you implement (the API definition) shapes your code.

Don't PR every set, especially for exercises that have a high level of fatigue. PR the last or last 2 sets, or even do a RIR={1,2} set for deadlifts, squats, stuff like that, to increase recovery speed.
Advanced: never PR, start RIR={1,2} in the last weeks of a cycle.
You must have ~10 sets/muscle/week for optimal muscle growth.

Start with a promise, cycle around the subject, build a fence (distinguish from similar ideas), ask a question to keep people engaged, and use verbal punctuation to allow people to get back on the train of ideas (e.g. enumerate, use seven-second breaks, and stress some words).
Get rid of title slides.
End elegantly.
Your ideas are like your children, and you don't want them to go into the world in rags.