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.
- Cocaine is a drug for the lonely.
- Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.—Alan Watts
- There’s always space for new narratives. The more we share our individual stories, the more we open up space for our collective stories to shift and accommodate them.
- A good ending accounts for everything that came before.
- Meaning of life: eat and not be eaten.
- Scarcity makes people happy.
- Never end a command with a verb you do not want them to do.
- Your opinion is also a confession of character.
- Everybody complains of their memory, but nobody of their judgement”—La Rochefoucauld
- Find the room that aligns with your goals.
- The audience programs the media.
- Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.—W.B. Yeats
- Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.—George Bernard Shaw
- Death is essential. Predation is the transfer of life and that life is a gift.
- A little nonsense, now and then, is relished by the wisest men.—Willy Wonka
- Surprise is a warning that our understanding is inadequate.
- Be the unanswerable riddle.
- Are we living in a fairy tale?
- True distance is measured in time.
- Peace is postponing the conflict until the reason for the fighting no longer matters.
- The grass is always greener on the other side of extinction.
- Racing when its not a race gets you nowhere.
- Learn to question your assumptions of how other people feel.
- Patience is easier when there is no alternative.
- Differences in status and wealth drives violence.
- People are social, and our identity is built from what we see and hear of ourselves reflected in others.
- A culture that encourages the trashing of the nearest and easiest targets will always implode from infighting.—Noah Smith
- There is no replacement for experimentation, independent thought and ruthless pragmatism.
- The best managers are stellar individual contributors who don’t want to be managers, but they take the role on to maintain their quality standards.
- [You] don’t need a randomized controlled trial to know that a kick in the testicles is going to hurt.—Paul Chek
- Don’t tweet, just delete.
- The five most important skills are reading, writing, arithmetic, persuasion, and programming.
- It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true.—A.N. Whitehead
- We are the music makers, we are the dreamers of dreams.—Willy Wonka
- Do the best you can until you know better. Then, when you know better, do better.—Maya Angelou
- People with patience are more difficult to manipulate.
- The way of the bully depends upon coercion and control.
- Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.—George Bernard Shaw
- When in a hole, stop digging.
- What if this situation is even worse than I thought?
- Evolution is a machine turning function into structure.
- Forgiveness is accepting the apology you will never receive.—Shawne Duperon
- The more ubiquitous it is, the more value in the original.
- Sell when they want your assets. Buy when they want your cash.
- He who brings trouble on his house will inherit the wind.—Proverbs 11:29
- Every plan shatters on contact with reality.
- Loneliness is both an inability to bond with others, but it is also when we become strangers to ourselves.
- Signs of old order collapse: nothing works.
- Human beings are an eye blink in the cosmic calendar.
- Don’t talk your way out of a compliment.
- The con does not work without the confidence.
- When you see a good move, look for a better one.—Emanuel Laskel
- Politics is for puppets.
- Never appeal to someone’s better nature. They may not have one.
- Don’t get caught in a distraction.
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