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 right way is the hard way.
- Reimagine our world and create the conditions for human flourishing, which would necessarily involve self-determination, mutual aid and freedom from governments, markets, or ideologies dictating what an individual’s or group’s life can be.
- More awareness, more choices.
- Behavior is a combination of someone’s: past experiences, ability to self regulate, and their core beliefs.
- You get what you tolerate.
- The Gruen effect is when an intentionally confusing layout makes you forget the reason you came to a store to shop.
- …sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.—William S. Burroughs
- Marginal improvement or create something new. These rarely overlap.
- The world is full of people whose vision of the future is an idealized past.
- If a lion could talk we would not understand him.—Ludwig Wittgenstein, in his Philosophical Investigations
- Connecting is better than protecting.
- The first draft of history is emotional, inaccurate and conflicted.
- No meaning without mythology.
- A focus on accumulation destroys the social fabric.
- People are a living composite of everyone they have ever loved.
- Play is the soil from which healthy adults are grown and sustained.
- Get in early and get out sooner.
- Competition brings out the best in products, and the worst in people.
- For those who believe in God, no explanation is necessary. For those who do not believe, no explanation is possible.—George Seaton
- Wherever the wind blows, so too will my thoughts and feelings take me.
- Speech is silver but silence is golden.
- Use time as a filter.
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