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.
- It is easier to make a bad habit impossible than to not do the possible.
- Good thinking requires discomfort.
- Let your mind wander.
- Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person, they are almost indistinguishable.—David W. Augsburger
- Listening is where love begins: listening to ourselves and then to our neighbors.—Fred Rodgers
- Never offer unsolicited advice. Even solicited, advice is a dangerous gift.
- A man forgets his good luck the next day, but remembers his bad luck until next year.—E.W. Howe
- Diplomacy and decisive action go hand in hand.
- Unless the threat is immediate, observe and analyze.
- Politics poison everything they touch.
- Be last to judge and the first to embrace.
- All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.—Blaise Pascal
- Don’t give advice, do acknowledge reality.
- On the utility to signal spectrum, the more the cost, the more signaling.
- Better tools, better information.
- The tall poppy gets cut down.
- Rest is resistance.
- Focus on making children string over fixing broken men.
- We all have three voices: the one we think with, the one we speak with, and the one we write with. When you stutter, two of those are always at war.—John Hendrickson
- Thought is formed in the mouth.—Tristan Tzara
- Without mercy, there can be no mistakes.
- Simple solutions in a complex world aren’t solutions.
- Devalue effort and all that remains is morass.
- Wonder is the helpmate of learning.
- The best way to defeat the opposition is to lead it.
- Happy or smart. Choose one.
- Always be willing to change your mind —especially if you’re smart.
- We decide what to believe by deciding who to believe.
- No need to separate the art from the artist, if the art is bad.
- Social constructs, such as gender, race, etc. are picked up from our society. None of us escape them, except with conscious, courageous effort.
- Peace is the product of clear boundaries.
- It’s never going to be perfect. Do your best and let it go.
- Conspiracy theories are the insecure person’s defense against a confusing world with too many competing narratives.
- Specification is for guidance. Code is source of truth.
- You don’t need to convince. Just do or be it.
- I would never die for my beliefs, because I might be wrong.—Bertrand Russell
- Truth is simple. Complexity is when truth is not understood or is there to obscure it.
- The 10/10 Rule: it takes a decade to build a platform and another decade for it to reach mass adoption.
- Fixing things you don’t like is where innovation begins.
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