Zuihitsu, 2023-05

Freedom over money.
Human problems require human solutions.
Many cultures gnaw on the bones of cheap hate and discord.
Building and addressing problems as they arise is superior to talking.
Express what you feel. Anything about others is projection.
A scabbard makes its sword neither good nor bad.
Remember to remember.
What is your story, cosmology to you, the person?
Orient, then create your own map/story.
Some people’s good thoughts are lost in poor expression.
The shouting, wounds, and blood were in plain view, the cause was hidden: fortune ruled the rest.
Love without purpose, and do not hate without reason.—Aesop
Life is a series of bets, and sometimes, things don’t work out and the consequences can only be endured.
He who is deaf, blind and silent will live a hundred years in peace.—Sicilian proverb
Friendships transform your character and there is no greater sign of a difference in character than in choosing different friends.
Being able to sustain effort over time is a superpower.
We learn by suffering.
Take your best guess and put in a stop loss in at 10%.
Listen to the bomb throwers. They are more often right than not.
Ecstatic cults don’t scale and generally don’t survive their leader.
Moral panics are always and everywhere stupid.
Culture replaces authentic feeling with words.
Where there is language, there is disagreement.
Letting go of an old idea is better than grasping onto a new one.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fanaticism is a monster that pretends to be the child of religion.—Voltaire
Find the closed doors inside of you.
Regard any answer as a hostile act.
All ideas are new to someone at some time.
…to underestimate one’s self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one’s own powers.—Sherlock Holmes
A lack of education is the mother of all suffering.
Liberal arts are the subjects worth studying by free people.
You must fight for what you believe to be right while never losing your sense of humor or your sense of proportion.—Neil Gaiman
There is no hack subject, only hack approaches.
Don’t speak badly of a friend, an enemy or yourself.
Don’t be arrogant when you are lucky or wretched when you’re not.
Ambition required the tongue to mask what is in the heart.
Persevere beyond competence.
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.—T.S. Eliot
The defender only needs to survive. The attacker has to win.
Performance is not competence.
Knowledge speaks. Wisdom listens.
Exploitation demands make-believe.
Most people are trading in the marketplace of passions.
Eternal truths are always hypothetical.—Bertrand Russell
The primary purpose of regulation is it protects politically influential businesses, workers, and other constituencies from the disruptions of growth.
Simplicity comes at the end.
Burn the junk your past selves left behind.
What then should we say, considering that there is great utility in both silence and in speaking?—Sallust
Whoever trusts a dishonest man to keep him safe, Discovers ruin where he thought he would find aid.

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