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.
- History doesn’t turn on hunger. It turns on humiliation.
- Transparency loses to power unless failure becomes unaffordable.
- Drawing is putting a line around an idea.—Henri Matisse
- The Earth was made round so we do not see too far down the round.
- The true effort is not creating rules, but creating the scarcity that forces excellence and ethical choice.
- Understanding without integration is entertainment.
- There’s a lot of narcissism in self-hatred.—David Foster Wallace
- Ninety percent of problems can be solved by a shower, eating, sleeping or relaxing.
- Wisdom emerges in the space between voices.
- People don’t have audiences, audiences have people.
- Vacation homes feel like wealth. They’re actually lifestyle anchors that bleed cash.
- If you run into one asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you’re the asshole.
- Competent performers demonstrate, they don’t declare.
- After financialization, the bottleneck isn’t capital, it is talent.
- As a rule of thumb, everyone really good in infosec has a mental illness, and when you talk to them, you have about 30s to figure out which one or else you’re in danger.—Gwern
- Everyone may have a book inside them, but some should keep it inside them.
- Risk is not about predictability. It is about vulnerability.
- There is no purpose to better machines if they do not also produce better humans.—Frank Chimero
- It’s always easier to grab a tool and bypass the mess of coordination, even if that means doing more and doing it alone.—Frank Chimero
- [Y]ou can’t get enough of what you don’t need.—Frank Chimero
- Practice doesn’t make perfect. It makes it permanent.
- You just have to do it. You don’t have to dig it.
- Discipline equals freedom.—Jocko Willink
- People write because no one listens.
- Il n’est pas besoin d’espérer pour entreprendre, ni de réussir pour persévérer. Roughly, you don’t need hope at the outset or success to persevere.
- If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.—Meister Eckhart
- Your choices don’t have to make sense to anyone else.
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