- Routine undercuts autonomy.
- Live as you can since you can’t live as you want.—Caecilius
- One person’s workaround is another’s exploit.
- Quality resists compression.
- People are lead. Things are managed.
- Movement is not the same as progress.
- Be human in all of its bedlam and beauty and madness and mercy for as long as you can and in any way you can.—Patton Oswalt
- The right time is now.
- Early over late.
- Bad things happen quickly. Good things take time.
- Online lives are paid in real ones.
- No one is paying attention, not to you and often not even to themselves.
- Your problems have been solved by others.
- Quickly won, quickly lost.
- Saying no creates space.
- Trust the bad feeling.
- The war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.—Roland Barthes
- Finding poverty agreeable is true richness.
- Poly or avoidant attachment style?
- Environments are created via incentives. What incentives are needed for an environment of human flourishing?
- Results are a function of system design.
- Be able to hear the truth.
- Chief thing to avoid? The crowd.
- Perfectly implementing a sufficiently flawed plan can be worse than having no plan at all.
- Temporary states often stay longer than expected.
- People do not like being told what to do.
- People want a reason, and they will create one from chaos.
- A techno-social system where humans are used like machines will eventually replace humans with machines. Bootstrapping.
- Acknowledging someone can be a gift. One that can be given gratuitously, like politeness.
- Render to the machine the things that are the machines’s, and to humanity the things that are humanity’s.
- Reflect on everything you find irritating in others leads to better understanding of ourselves.
- A narrow focus on growth results in bad strategy.
- The power to maintain is the power to improve.
- You cannot defend, or attack, everything.
- Knowing when to stop is the key to success.
- Més que un club — more than a club.
- Failure is progress.
- Women relate face to face. Men relate shoulder to shoulder.
- Render the familiar unfamiliar again.
- Aging lets us put down the burden of the future.
- They make a wasteland and call it ‘peace.’—Tacitus
- Knowing is doing, not remembering.
- If you’re going to be a whore, be an expensive whore.
- Authority figures, other people, and the environment, what are they teaching?
- Risk deferred is not eliminated.
- Wealth is cash flows.
- Periods of safety lead to people taking more risk, and vice versa.
- You are neither your property nor your speech.—Epictetus
- No one owns life. Renters only.
- Art reflects the life of the society in which it is made.
- Everything is temporary. Nothing is fair.
- Improbability increases difficulty of brute force.
- Credit is remembered. Cash is forgotten.
- Stupidity is a terrible opponent to wrestle or ὡς δυσπάλαιστόν
- If you want to keep a secret, you must hide it from yourself.—George Orwell
- Science improves our ability to act. Philosophy improves our ability to select better actions.
- _To say what you feel is to dig your own grave.—Sinead O’Connor
- The stupidest, laziest, most embarrassing thing that could have happened probably did.
- Lascivus versu, mente pudicus eras. You were wanton in verse, but pure of thought.—Hadrian
- Refuting innuendo with exhaustive argumentation is a sucker’s game.
- For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.—Vincent van Gogh
- The market climbs a wall of worry.
- Narrative follows price.
- The asshole survives the bath.
- Win or lose, everybody gets what they want out of the market.—Ed Seykota
- People that disregard the truth become unable to recognize it.
- Love your losses.
- You’re burning incense over bullshit.
- No one can wear a mask for very long; affectation soon returns to true nature.
- Distortion reigns. We only know others through filters, of our experience, what they show us, environments, etc. Even of ourselves, we are biased and partial, emphasizing parts that obscure the whole.
- There is nowhere in the world that is not a place.
- If you put even the seemingly mundane under a microscope, you’ll find patterns amid the apparent chaos.—E.O. Wilson and Stephen JayGould.d
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