"Avoid politics and the multitude of irrelevant struggles designed to channel your energies into someone else’s agenda." The key tension of social media is that there are a lot of bad ideas, but there are a few really good ones mixed in with them. The good ideas have the potential to give you insight, to … Continue reading The Value of Social Media
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Zuihitsu, 2023-09
How is life? Harsh according to good standards, but well according to harsh ones. Thank your enemies with guest-gifts of pain. The angle of the dangle is proportional to the heat of the meat. Two is one, and one is none. Risk cannot be destroyed, only transformed. No pain, no premium. Over the long term, … Continue reading Zuihitsu, 2023-09
Zuihitsu, 2023-08
If it's an easy change, it's superficial. Slavery is not being able to speak your mind.—paraphrased Epictetus You won’t get anything done by planning.—Karl Pilkington We build on our experience, not our plans. A culture of exposing weakness reduces critical failures. Life and pain share kinship. The gods do not give everything to people at … Continue reading Zuihitsu, 2023-08
Zuihitsu, 2023-07
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 … Continue reading Zuihitsu, 2023-07
Zuihitsu, 2023-06
Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.—Gramsci Greatness is forged in the crucible of struggle, pain and opposition. There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself—Raymond Chandler Superior technique meet inferior morals, bodies proliferate. It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.—Alvin … Continue reading Zuihitsu, 2023-06
For the Love of Reading
"Today, children are being introduced to books and stories one paragraph at a time. They might be reading something as wonderful as Peggy Parish's Amelia Bedelia, but when you have to stop and answer questions, in detail, often word-for-word, about random paragraphs, there's no way you can learn to care about the characters or the … Continue reading For the Love of Reading
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, … Continue reading Zuihitsu, 2023-05
Zuihitsu, 2023-04
Data over narrative. Authoritative without being authoritarian. Don't be a push-over. Any fool can know. The point is to understand.—Albert Einstein Look for the slope not the Y intercept. Doing leads to becoming. Panic and overreaction—the late response of fools. We are what we do/make. People with full lives tend not to pass judgment on … Continue reading Zuihitsu, 2023-04
Zuihitsu, 2023-03
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 … Continue reading Zuihitsu, 2023-03
Zuihitsu, 2023-02
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 … Continue reading Zuihitsu, 2023-02
The Five Love Languages
According to Gary Chapman, the five love languages are: words of affirmation (compliments) quality time receiving gifts acts of service physical touch This book, "The Five Love Languages," was published 30 years ago. I think it is a good mental model for thinking about relationships, and it probably helps to think of them as a spectrum. It's … Continue reading The Five Love Languages
Zuihitsu, 2023-01
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. In your closet and your life, subtract whenever you add. When the wrench is on the nut, tighten it. Ask: does it light … Continue reading Zuihitsu, 2023-01
Generalizing the 5/10/15 Rule for U.S. Drug Development, Or The Cycle of the New
"U.S. drug development cycle, which he says “always follows the 5/10/15 rule. For the first 5 years, companies hype new drugs; next 5 years all hidden side effects are exposed, leading to black-box warnings and class action lawsuits; in [the] last 5 years, the companies start dissing their own old drug as the patent runs … Continue reading Generalizing the 5/10/15 Rule for U.S. Drug Development, Or The Cycle of the New
Zuihitsu, 2022-12
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 first rule of life: don’t be a dickhead. Men only have money the first month of dating, that's recruitment budget. Never confuse … Continue reading Zuihitsu, 2022-12
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