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.
- The first rule of life: don’t be a dickhead.
- Men only have money the first month of dating, that’s recruitment budget. Never confuse it with operational budget.
- Travel is a meat thing. Best for those whose meat is still fresh.
- Emotional abuse: threats, using relationship history or traditiobal roles to avoid responsibility, pressure, ignoring boundaries, guilting, shaming, and getting other people to manipulate on your behalf.
- Don’t believe the hype!—Public Enemy
- Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.—Mark Twain
- …there is no such thing as information-overload; there is just filter failure.—Clay Shirky
- How might this experience bring out the best in me and help me grow?
- Life is self-directed.
- The planning fallacy, is the tendency to underestimate the amount of time needed to complete a future task, due in part to the reliance on overly optimistic performance scenarios.
- Stop carrying the world on your shoulders. You ain’t got the build for it.
- People rarely want advice. Most want to be heard. Learn to listen. Don’t try to fix it, change it, or project your own emotions onto it.
- A question for wants: if I already had it, would I be glad?
- Everything is possible. But not everything fits budget and timeline.
- There’s always a tell, the canary in the coal mine, that announces the change. The hard part is recognizing it.
- Adjudicating hacks allows systems to evolve.
- …everybody is going to hurt you. You just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.—Bob Marley
- Do things for love. Love is not earned. Love is either freely given, or it is not love at all.
- Art is never finished, only abandoned.—Leonardo Da Vinci
- The more comfortable you become in your own skin, the less you need to manufacture the world around you for comfort.
- Get smart in secret and get stupid in public.
- Do the easy bit first.
- Looking to the past or present is a great way to miss the future.
- Authentic love is about freedom, not possession.
- Be the reason someone feels seen, heard, understood, appreciated, supported, and loved.
- Choose grow over comfort, discipline over procrastination, improving over impressing, and progress over perfection.
- Thinking stops at certainty.
- Without nuance, ideas become more simple and more wrong.
- It is enough for lazy wits to have the appearance of knowing.
- Face, accept, float, let time pass.
- Engage in a conspiracy of love with the whole world.
- Self-directed learning is never boring.
- The grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and, for children, it’s tiresome always giving them explanations.—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
- Most beliefs put ideology above evidence.
- Wisdom is knowing the right thing to do at the right time.
- Crickets are the orchestra of the stars.
- Struggle leads to transformation.
- We are all living off the fat of a dream gone bad.
- Launch determines orbit.
- You are not your thoughts or opinions.
- When I shit job needs to be done, cover all the angles and try not to get shat upon.
- To own an idea, you have to spend the cognitive time buying it.
- Stay cautious, stay alive.
- The overall aim of most thought is tranquillity, not truth.
- Bees and flies eat different food. No fly can convince a bee to start eating shit.
- The problem with stereotypes is people never live up to them.
- Say, or learn to say: I’m sorry. I don’t know. I was wrong. I need help.
- Lotteries distract from discontent with irrational hope.
- Day wise, decade foolish.
- Without agency, every problem is a catastrophe.
- Speaking without thought is not the same as speaking the truth.
- Philosophy is question fandom.
- The path to self-realization is strewn with embracing uncomfortable truths.
- Addiction is often an expression of anger.
- Respect leaves room for questions and challenges.
- Through play, we re-learn how to trust our own eyes and ears and resist those who would command us.
- It is enough that it is engaging until we are ready to walk away.
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