Technically, zuihitsu are longer reflections than what I tend to collect. But, the general idea is right. Here’s this month’s installment. If you want the complete set, please download the fortune file.

• Ask a great question and the article will write itself.
• To govern is to choose.—Nigel Lawson
• Don’t waste precious time trying to prove someone else wrong.
• What is the flavor of your life?
• In a world powered by Artificial Intelligence, who makes the hard decisions?
• Are you being kind or are you salving your guilt?
• Dreams and romance grow in mystery and uncertainty.
• Maintenance is one of the commandments of good engineering.
• Don’t analyze, utilize.
• People have three faces: one for strangers, one for friends, and one they never show anyone – the true self.
• Fine-tuning or pruning?
• Meritocracy: stack ranked according to my preferences.
• Everyone is talking their own book.
• Everything is a network.
• You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest.—Robert Brault
• Transform your tomb to chrysalis and emerge.
• The goal of learning is not so much answers as better questions.
• Many people are committed to the darkness even when exposed to the light.
• There are no recipes for success; there is only trial and error.—Carlo Rovelli
• The worst thing is not that people lied and no one noticed. It was that people knew it was a lie and it did not matter.
• Morality comes after desire.
• Picking losers is harder than picking winners.
• The only lever to move the future is the present.
• No marksman with crooked rifles.
• Easier to laugh at a problem that isn’t your responsibility to solve.
• If a training is obvious, you are not the target audience.
• Investing is not about cash flow.
• Avoid crazy at all costs.
• Thank your enemies with guest-gifts of pain.
• Where are the junctions where temporary reality mets the consensus reality.
• All stories are one story, in the end.
• Most work is a web rather than a straight line.
• The horror of personal smallness is the realization that our life has no meaning in consensus reality.
• What is being pushed to the margins?
• Transformation, what has to be done to turn one thing into another?
• No idea that proposes free money is ever a good idea.
• There is a salvation to be found in the ruthless cutting out of bullshit.
• Good rules make for good games. Bad rules lead to degeneracy.
• Never believe you can solve the impossible equation, the getting of something for nothing.
• Any relationship with a tyrant is in the master / slave mode.
• Influence clusters.
• In a mob, everyone gets a turn.
• Write what is written within.
• The variance is larger than the mean.
• Narrative matters, and it is not always possible to control the narrative.
• Truth transcends the visible.
• If the why is important, many things become possible.
• Where nothing makes sense, cast aside knowledge and only look to what is possible.
• Conserve resources. Select where to apply effort, and don’t start something you are not prepared to see through to the end.
• Revolutions of style are also revolutions of substance.
• Locate meaning in the putatively superficial. Examine the values underpinning artifice.
• Assassinations are like birthday presents. It’s the thought that counts.
• Confidence comes from preparation.—Kobe Bryant
• Narrative follows price.
• Time makes more converts than reason.—Thomas Paine
• The truth does not require  your participation to exist. Bullshit does.—Terence McKenna
• Selection and time teaches what should be feared.
• You are what you do. Not what you say or what you believe.
• Don’t give unsolicited advice. Advice-giving inherently implies unequal status.
• Three minutes? Ask a question.
• Be strict with yourself and forgiving of others.
• Exercise gratitude.
• People are busy, distracted, and tired. Always follow up.
• Don’t be the smartest person in the room.
• Your choices shape your identity, not the other way around.
• Character is more important than accomplishments.
• Be kind, but be ready to walk.
• Self-discipline is more important than motivation.
• Conviction is necessary to turn the possible into actual.
• Assume nothing is random, but also assume that any apparent connection needs to be substantiated.
• Stasis is a poor form of longevity. Engagement, reinterpretation and evolution lead to long term relevance.
• Meritocracy, an interesting idea no one wants implemented.
• Romantics love the narrative.
• The Others are the only ones that need to hide themselves, and everyone is an Other in some contexts.
• Some garden. Others sit. A few transform the site into a dump.
• The bliss of today leads to the pain of tomorrow, and vice versa.
• Doing is learning.
• Of Reality, we each experience only a single slice.
• Paranoia sells.
• If it is just words, let them howl.
• Beginnings are easy. It’s knowing when to stop that is often hard.
• Not every writer is Homer.
• What choice do you make when the stakes are pain?
• Questions that trouble the mind are the only questions worth considering.
• The gym is a microcosm of life. Good training transfers.
• If it is worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.
• For who can judge, or witness of those times, Where all alike are guilty of the crimes?—John Donne
• Power and strength are not the same thing.—Plato
• The prime manufacturer can never exceed the capabilities of the least proficient of the suppliers.—John Hart-Smith
• Lying is impossible if everything is false.
• Poetry is a shotgun aimed at our shared experience.
• Too much detail when abstracted could mean anything.
• Meaning is as fundamental to talk as matter.
• Reality has been replaced with abstraction; the Real has become chosen belief.
• The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence and obsolescence.—Art Linklater
• Evolution requires variance. Optimization implies a static environment.
• Because indicators direct one’s activities, you should guard against overreacting. This you can do by pairing indicators, so that together both effect and counter-effect are measured.—Andy Grove
• Prediction and provocation are not the same thing.
• Corruption is power that overflows its bounds.
• Viewpoints outside one’s contextual frame are invaluable.
• Van Riper Principle: give the job to your best then let them do it without looking over their shoulder.
• Friends can be unfeeling and stupid and still be friends when it counts.
• The advantage of being old is you have seen most of what happens before.
• Without reaching a limit and failing, it is impossible to know the boundaries of the possible.
• Humankind cannot bear very much reality.—T. S. Eliot
• No meaning outside relationships.
• Have you tried solving the problem?
• Games with God have no score, only endings.
• School the meat. Don’t let the meat school you.
• Second trade first.
• Are you security, public relations or some other thing?
• Choice enables us to become more than what we are.
• Electronic intercepts are great, but you don’t know if you’ve got two idiots on the phone.—Martin Peterson, former Executive Director of the CIA
• You might not be interested in war, but sometimes, war is interested in you.
• Let time toast it for you.
• …the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself alone makes for good writing.—Faulkner
• Don’t show me. Give me the recipe and I will show myself.
• On a local level, (d)evolution is about fitness for survival of an animal, or indeed a species. But on a global level the point of evolution is that it is a parallel algorithm for exploring the many forms of fitness.
• Beer on whiskey, mighty risky—Whiskey on beer, never fear.
• Life wasn’t simpler when you were a kid. You were simpler when you were a kid.
• Economic exclusion is central to social persecution.
• Believe as little as possible without becoming a heretic, so that you can obey as little as possible without becoming a rebel.
• Money is like heroin for boring people.
• They don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.
• Leadership means helping other people with their problems.
• Discovery is about walking up to the edge of the familiar and stepping over.
• After someone asking for some ridiculous thing from you: I see you mean business.
• Put some paint where it ain’t.
• Don’t borrow trouble.
• Life is lived looking forwards and understood looking backwards.
• The opposite of play isn’t work, it’s rote.—Edward Hollowell
• Disney characters have a Hug Rule, where they wait for the child to release first. It doesn’t work if everyone does it.
• Only Zeus has medicine for everything.—Stobaeus
• It ain’t gonna smell better in a week.
• We’re in crazyland now, the rules don’t apply.
• Put yourself in situations where preparation does not ensure success.
• Signal you are playing.
• Conventional thinking tends to both sides, either / or thinking.
• Crisis reveals character.
• Hope clouds observation.
• Value is established in the losing.
• The primary motivator in a bureaucracy is fear.
• The doors of hell are locked from the inside.—C. S. Lewis
• That which submits rules.
• A world is supported by four things: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers if the righteous, and the valor of the brave. But all of these are as nothing without a ruler who knows the art of ruling.
• Bad shepherds ruin their flocks.—Homer, Odyssey
• Imagination is as effortless as perception.—Keith Johnstone
• Is it a characteristic of a subgroup or of most people?
• The Paradox of Opportunity: so long as we live, there will always be another opportunity. But, opportunities are finite. Good opportunities are both rare and can sometimes be manufactured, a gift of attitude, circumstance, or openness to what the moment offers.
• The difference between being imaginative and its opposite often lies in whether we are being judged and whether we care about that judgment.
• Contempt is the enemy of judgment.
• A smile is not just in your mouth, it is also in your eyes, voice and body language.
• Like a broken ceramic, trust can be repaired, but people will always look at the seam.
• It could be worse. The dead could return and ask for their stuff back.
• What use is money if it cannot buy what you need.