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.

1. When dealing with enemies, the goal must not be diagnosis, but defeat.
2. All observation is drenched in theory.
3. The problem with rowing your own boat is that you can’t see where you’re going.
4. When people thought the Earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the Earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the Earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the Earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together.—Isaac Asimov
5. Some variance clarifies. Some disrupts.
6. Modern finance’s innovations tend to make safe assets more risky.
7. Survival in adverse environments is more important than maximum returns under favorable conditions.
8. Even music can be a weapon when someone else controls it.
9. Sind Kryptowährungen eine Verirrung oder ein Spiegelbild unserer selbst?
10. Indecision often results from thinking we have more control than we do.
11. Existence is a guerilla campaign.
12. The problem with belief in universal truth or universal values is it also comes with the belief that they must be imposed on the rest of the globe, either through diplomacy, coercion, or violence.
13. Stay in the game. Be patient. Avoid the big mistake. Do these things and you’ll be just fine.
14. Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.—Mae West
15. People that play it safe when young end up playing it safe their whole lives.
16. If you cannot win the war you are fighting, fight another one.
17. Journalism: history or conversation?
18. …every instance of turf-protecting selfishness is evidence not of flawed human nature, but of a flawed society, one that values stuff or power or money or winning over relationships.
19. The world is not a solid continent of facts sprinkled by a few lakes of uncertainties, but a vast ocean of uncertainties speckled by a few islands of calibrated and stabilised forms.—Bruno Latour
20. Two types of categorization: lumpers and splitters.
21. An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.—James McNeill Whistler
22. You can learn as much from things done badly as things done well.
23. …if it’s provably secure, it’s probably not.—Lars Ramkilde Knudse
24. Sometimes to find the light, we must first touch the darkness.
25. Despise not the labor that humbles the heart.
26. Controversy is artificial interestingness.
27. What cannot be known hollows the mind. Fill it not with guesswork.
28. It darkens the heart to call dark deeds good.
29. Autocracy is brittle because it is blind.
30. Death, taxes and people complaining. The sure things in life.
31. Sometimes you change the subject, and sometimes the subject changes you.
32. Without pain, without struggle, without anguish, discomfort and fear, transformation is impossible.
33. When someone is crying, someone is learning.
34. Are you weird enough?
35. Learning is really just widening.
36. Launch and iterate beats plan and pontificate.
37. Les vacances, c’est la période qui permet aux employés de se souvenir que les affaires peuvent continuer sans eux.—E.J. Wilson
38. If you need a sign, it’s bad design.
39. Some people need a push, some need a shove. Some need the barrel of a .38 snub.
40. Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.—Carl Sagan
41. Don’t play the sap for some cause.
42. Our main mission in life is to say to the other people: Do not be afraid.
43. Learn the difference between constructive criticism and someone projecting their own insecurities.
44. There is hope. Infinite hope. Just not for us.
45. If your definition of a friend is someone who will die for you, then you don’t have any friends.
46. Loneliness is solitude with a problem.
47. Tomorrow may belong to your foes, but there is always the day after tomorrow.
48. Being a nobody can be a great advantage because no one bothers to lie to you.
49. Men will build empires for a wink and a meal.
50. You can always tell a [type of person], but you can’t tell him much.
51. History does not take lifelong holidays.
52. You cannot make something good until you know who you are making it for.
53. Knowledge all by itself, without deep wisdom, ends up becoming despair.—Ram Dass
54. The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common – they don’t change their views to fit the facts. They change the facts to fit their views, which can be uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs changing.—The Doctor
55. Cultivate and relearn the practice discernment.
56. Write, think and create — a page a day.
57. A bad metaphor is a curse.
58. New environments have different norms and different cultures.
59. People need a creative outlet, unstructured time and to know they are valued.
60. When the judgment comes, the people in the middle will fall into hell first.
61. Love is a choice and an action. Love is never merely a feeling.

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.

1. Make a decision.
2. The one true religion, survival.
3. True creation requires sacrifice.
4. Always be moving.
5. The idea they one should do whatever it takes is irresponsible. Some things need razing.
6. By their deeds you shall know them.
7. There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.​—Louis L’Amour
8. …the inevitable crisis takes longer to come than you can imagine, but when it does come it happens faster than you can imagine.—Dornbusch’s Law
9. Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.—Salvador Dali
10. Faith is 24 hours of doubt, and 1 minute of hope.
11. The universe defines a work and war decides where it will end up.
12. Revolutions are produced by improved conditions and rising expectations, not by mass immiseration.
13. The light obtained by setting straw men on fire is not what we mean by illumination.—Adam Gopnick
14. The narrating self doesn’t replace sense with story; it makes a story that makes its own sense.
15. New styles involve breaking the algorithm, not following it.
16. The middle way is not the way of melodrama.
17. True revolution is a change of mindset.
18. There’s head sense, and there’s heart sense.
19. Even the hottest coals cool.
20. Watches are the NFTs of meat space.
21. Time proves which ideas are good enough to live on.
22. Reacting to pain and pain avoidance usually result in bad decisions.
23. If a book is tedious to you, don’t read it; that book was not written for you.—Jorge Luis Borges
24. Utopia is impossible because problems are inevitable. Solving any problem leads to new problems. Dystopia is impossible because problems are solvable. Any solution not prohibited by laws of nature can be figured out. Progress means solving better and better problems forever. Life in inherently problematic, which makes it inherently interesting.
25. Can you solve a small part of the problem?
26. Figure out a way to make more mistakes.
27. When Western people become wealthier, they buy more loneliness.
28. True lack of understanding is learned.
29. Landmine people, some people were put into the universe to rig it to explode, then walk away.
30. Fighting with memes is fighting with weapons that will be coopted.
31. Familiarity breeds comfort, not contempt.
32. Least said, soonest mended.
33. Love and freedom do not coexist.
34. What we know is that we don’t know anything.
35. People don’t care about research, principles or good governance. What they want is the magic bullet.
36. Fear deafens the heart.
37. The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool.—Richard Feynman

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.

1. Something doesn’t have to last forever for it to be successful.
2. Perfect happiness is the privilege of deciding when things end.—Sarah Manguso
3. If you really want to see why you do things, then don’t do them and see what happens.—Michael A. Singer
4. The simpler the message, the sharper the razor.
5. Figure out the what before the how.
6. There is no problem without a solution. If there is no solution, it’s just something you need to live with.
7. Don’t let your intellectual horizons narrow to fit your politics.
8. History is shaped by the tools we use to disseminate ideas, not the ideas themselves.
9. More time invested in choosing leads to better choices but also less satisfaction with them.
10. Don’t apologize for being unavailable.
11. Celebrity endorsements in new technologies happen at peaks.
12. The ego is not master in its own house.—Sigmund Freud
13. Life is full of alternatives but no choice.—Patrick White
14. Reality is what is seen, counted, and quantified.—Jacques Ellul
15. Aggregating demand is key to success.
16. Who’s in charge?—YOU ARE
17. The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.—Albert Einstein
18. Just because nobody complains doesn’t mean all parachutes are perfect.—Benny Hill
19. Tinkerbell Effect describes things that are thought to exist only because people believe in them.
20. Trading and prediction are not the same thing.
21. Live with your choices and learn.
22. If you lead with fear, you will find something to fear.
23. Only a vision of the whole, like that of a saint, a madman or a mystic, will permit us to decipher the true organizing principles of the universe.—Karl Schwarzschild
24. Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.—Honore de Balzac
25. All subcultures are, in a sense, status Ponzi schemes.—Scott Alexander
26. A society grows great when old [people] plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit.
27. Self report is bullshit.
28. It is not certain that everything is uncertain.—Blaise Pascal
29. When the time is ripe for certain things, they appear at different places, in the manner of violets coming to light in the early spring.-Father of Jànos Bolyai, who discovered non-Euclidean geometry.
30. You can recognize the people who live for others by the haunted look on the faces of the others.-Katharine White Horn
31. Do whatever brings you life, then. Follow your own fascinations,  obsessions, and compulsions. Trust them. Create whatever creates revolution in the heart.
32. It ain’t what they call you it’s what you answer to.-W.C. Fields
33. What is beyond our grasp is neither the future nor the past, but the present itself.
34. There aren’t any bad crowds, just wrong choices.
35. Harbor the wolf, and you may find your sheep missing.
36. Don’t tinkle on my twinkle.
37. The real mystery of life is not a problem to be solved, it is a reality to be experienced. —A Beginner’s Guide to Constructing the Universe by Michael S. Schneider
38. People carry worlds within them.—Neil Gaiman
39. First bite is free.
40. No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.—Ursula K. Le Guin
41. When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.—Abraham Lincoln
42. Life is thick sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.—attributed to Voltaire
43. It takes three years of working on something to make good money and seven years to generate wealth.—hosts of The TMBA Podcast
44. Iron sharpens iron.
45. Listening is the heart of learning.
46. Tolerance is a peace treaty, not a suicide pact.
47. Disrespect is earned.
48. The secret of happiness is not doing what we like but in liking what we do.—J.M. Coetzee
49. The apocalypse has arrived, but it is not evenly distributed yet.
50. Your library should contain as much of what you don’t know as you can afford.
51. Denarrate, insulate yourself from the other people’s narratives.
52. Nature is not a temple, but a ruin.
53. Defer decisions, learn along the way and trust in iteration.
54. All good things must begin.—Octavia E. Butler
55. On this topic, who has good taste?
56. It doesn’t rain every day.
57. There are those who look at things the way they are and ask why… I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?—George Bernard Shaw
58. Truth builds trust.
59. The decisions you make add up.
60. Recency is dramatically overvalued.
61. Empathize with stupidity, and you are halfway to thinking like an idiot.
62. It is often the small things that determine success or failure.