Collecting these little ideas has become a major focus. Here’s this month’s installment.

1. Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.—Josephine Hart
2. Life is a perpetual act of self-authorization.
3. What cannot be summarized can only be experienced.
4. Attempts to escape the physical world find it stubbornly persists.
5. Instead of lightening our burdens, make them heavier. You might decide to put it down.
6. Suffering is believing there is an escape.
7. Ought implies can. Are you able?
8. Get on with what counts most and let the other chips fall where they may.
9. Lower the stakes.
10. The best work is work we aren’t sure we can do.
11. Writer’s block is a reluctance to write poorly.
12. Hoist an unwanted confidence on someone today.
13. A genius in the one most like himself.—Theolonious Monk
14. Make a list of what you want to say. What comes first? What’s last?
15. Write down what you see.
16. Ask again.
17. You can close your eyes, but you can’t close your ears.
18. You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.—Carl Jung
19. You cannot change people or organizations. They can only be made anew.
20. Find balance between building capacity vs. getting things done.
21. Don’t confuse motion with progress.
22. Little is learned from comfort.
23. Thinking about anything that is not happening in the moment comes with an emotional cost.
24. The question is not what you look at, but what you see.—H.D. Thoreau
25. Nostalgia is slow repetition.
26. Never stay stationary. Repeat, vary, evolve.
27. Society evolves one funeral at a time.
28. Patience and commitment are the keys to perseverance.
29. All advice is contextual, yet it is rarely delivered with any context.
30. Everyone is scarred by past experience.
31. Sharpening is a prelude, not a substitute, for cutting.
32. Just because someone doesn’t share their opinions doesn’t mean they don’t have any.
33. Everything that is important is explainable.
34. Everyone wants you to tell them their $0.02.
35. Data is computation in a trench coat.
36. Opacity has its purposes.
37. Artists are the antenna of civilization.—Ezra Pound
38. New selves first emerge in simulacrum.
39. Make things you want to see and put on your own shows.
40. This world values children, not childhood—Bioshock Infinite, Burial at Sea
41. There are only personal apocalypses. Nothing is a cliche when it’s happening to you.—Max Payne
42. I survived because the fire inside me burned brighter than the fire around me.—Joshua Graham, Fallout New Vegas
43. The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world.–G-Man, Half Life 2
44. A man chooses, a slave obeys.
45. Surviving is winning, Franklin, everything else is bullshit.— Michael from GTA V
46. [H]uman beings define their reality through suffering and misery.—Agent Smith, The Matrix
47. The point of travel is to experience things you haven’t.—Freddie deBoer
48. Resist optimization culture.—Freddie deBoer
49. Don’t cling to the nurse out of fear of something worse.
50. Nothing is easier than to become subhuman.
51. Love for the wrong person will destroy you.
52. Do you want truth or comfort?
53. Even tainted knowledge can point the discerning to truth.
54. Not all families last.
55. Even gods want mysteries.
56. Risky odds are better than none.
57. People that serve everyone can be trusted by no one.
58. Pleasure is often used as a weapon.
59. Meaning lies everywhere around us and within us.
60. We live many lives, die many deaths. But in each of these lives and deaths all the others are present, and we can hear their echo.—paraphrased Roberto Calasso
61. Always show up and keep showing up.
62. Nothing is safe but what we put at risk.
63. Report to the heavens the true features of the human story.
64. Being early is the same as being wrong.
65. The desire for consistency is a source for poor decision-making.
66. Optimize for variance.
67. Look for unrecognized value.
68. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.—Oscar Wilde
69. Put yourself in the path of discovery. Discover something new every day.
70. Mental models tend to be grounded in experiences in a material world. 
71. Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.—Frank Herbert, Dune
72. Everything is more beautiful when you’re doomed.
73. The purpose of death is release of love.—Laurie Anderson
74. Create the reality you want to live in.
75. Are you thinking or rearranging your prejudices?
76. Mass media homogenizes minds.
77. Wanting to do it is almost always enough qualification.
78. All publicity works upon anxiety.—John Berger
79. It is not a war, but it’s a fight.—Annick Girardin
80. You are free to do whatever you want. You need only face the consequences.—Sheldon Kopp
81. Love is not enough, but it sure helps.—Sheldon Kopp
82. All important decisions must be made with incomplete information, and yet, we are still responsible.
83. Heroes imply diminishment.
84. You’re not going to get everything you want.
85. The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.—Rilke
86. Disillusion can be positive.
87. The key to doing anything well is preparation.
88. Self-discipline, self-control and the ability to work when we’d rather not is more important than intelligence.
89. The triumph of culture is to overpower nationality.– Ralph Waldo Emerson. Corollary: Nationalism triumphs when culture is weak.
90. Being known by strangers, and, even more dangerously, seeking their approval, is an existential trap.
91. Too much money breeds arrogance, bad behavior, and jealousy, and society just loves to take it down.
92. Sometimes not quitting is avoiding the harder thing, confronting the uncertainty of change.
93. Everybody’s battling something at the gym, the bigger people are deeper into the struggle.

Collecting these little ideas has become a major focus. Here’s this month’s installment.

1. What is the underlying issue of the dispute?
2. The Internet is a machine for wrecking consensus and trust.—Marginal Revolution
3. To correct a mistake, acknowledge a mistake has been made and state any new information necessary. Don’t repeat whatever needed correcting. 
4. The world rewards you for outcomes, not effort.
5. What would make you change your mind?
6. You can never go back. Change cannot be undone.
7. Change tends to effect relationships with everything.
8. Some goals require being and not having.
9. Extending our senses also means limiting them. The microscope and telescope changes our view completely and are valuable as alternatives that can be used at will.
10. Vanity Fair is in our pockets and it is always open for business.
11. We should be wary of allowing the logic of the market to colonize all facets of our experience.
12. Only the experience of sharing a common human world with others who look at it from different perspectives can enable us to see reality in the round and to develop a shared common sense.—Hannah Arendt
13. Codes, even the best codes, can become idolatrous traps that tempt us to complicity in violence.—Charles Tayler
14. What frames what?
15. To betray, you must first belong.—Kim Philby
16. Only the paranoid survive in a computerized world.
17. You teach best what you most need to learn.—Richard Bach
18. The best problems are insoluble.
19. Management is a discipline. When used as an incentive, it becomes something else.
20. Be not inhospitable to strangers lest they be angels in disguise.
21. Sometimes dreams are poison.
22. The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude larger than to produce it.—Brandolini’s law
23. Sing the newspaper.
24. The point of abstracting responsiblity to policies, algorithms, bureaucracies, etc. is to replace anger with disbelief and resignation.
25. Talent is the capacity for doing continuous hard work in the right way.
26. Fan is an abbreviation of fanatic.
27. The correct value of most of our assets is zero.
28. No past, no future.
29. Human behavior is driven by love or want of love.
30. Do your best, and as you improve, do better.
31. Escape the sociology of the last five minutes.—cf. Michael Mann
32. Military veterans don’t laugh at the circus.
33. Most people are interested in discovering the truth, if it is within walking distance.
34. Disruption is never one variable, but a wholesale revisiting of all the variables.
35. Comfort always comes at a cost.
36. The earth is slippery, slick.—Nahuatl proverb
37. Write to tell stories, not explain research.
38. Never a day without a line.
39. Silence doesn’t allow for difference or self-aggrandizement.
40. Avoid strain, anxiety and tension.
41. Misuse of words leads to abuse of people.
42. Learn to hear what you’d rather not hear.
43. The sedated cannot be engaged.
44. Loneliness can be like air, something unnoticed until it is gone.
45. Intimacy comes when there is nothing left to say.
46. Reality binds everybody to limits.
47. Commerce reduces product to commodity.
48. Be a sound craftsman, in whatever work you choose to do.
49. If you’re big on the Internet, three likely outcomes: you burn out, you get cancelled, or you disappear.
50. A weird paradox of the Internet. It amplifies and aggregates, which, in turn, creates new niches.
51. What’s the lingering cost of life lived on a pedestal?
52. In the firehose of faces, you need a strategy to stand out. Be unique.
53. Identify the best tool for the job, and use it.
54. Hard problems can be made smaller and/or reframed into easier problems.
55. Always seek to better yourself and your tools.
56. Volume is just about the number of fools.
57. The secret ingredient to anything great is love.
58. All progress runs the risk of bad precedents. No decision worth making is free of potentially bad consequences.
59. In some games, there is no such thing as overkill.
60. Do not shit where you sleep.
61. One with courage makes a majority.
62. Commitment means compounded returns on effort and creates meaning.
63. There are no rules; there are only targets.
64. Technology changes exponentially but our institutions adapt only linearly, if at all. 
65. Selective with strong citation.
66. Everything digital is mental representation that can be changed as the mind changes.
67. Creativity rarely emerges rapidly.
68. Run away from monoculture.
69. Having our perception of the world increasingly mediated by proprietary technologies that immerse us in ever more sophisticated realms of digital simulacra is a way of surrendering the experience of a shared reality with others.
70. The final form of the physical store is an environment where prospective or existing customers just hang out, marinating in the brand without necessarily buying anything while inside.
71. Our stories fit reality to the narrative instead of the narrative to reality, i.e., they are fictions.
72. Look for things that don’t make sense.
73. There is no clean way to enter the heavy machinery of the heart.—This is the Nonsense of Love by Mindy Nettifee
74. Only those who do not seek power are qualified to hold it.–Plato
75. To be happy, be unashamed.
76. Very occasionally, it is okay to be angry, even with the gods, but anger as a default mode is poison.
77. Sigmoid or singular?
78. Payments is the most frequent and effective means of controlling discourse.
79. Markets roll over when you least expect.
80. People often signal left, only to turn right. Turns over signals.
81. Focus on process over results. Work on multiple problems and rotate them. Discuss with people who perceive it differently and can help.
82. Pour les encourager les autres.