Cormac Goodwin
@cgoodwin
Cormac Goodwin
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein
― Albert Einstein
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The Backwards Law
"Desiring a positive experience is itself a negative experience; accepting a negative experience is a positive experience."
-Marc Manson
Always Seek Wholesomeness
Without a specific application point, a piece of classic wisdom is just a platitude.
David Cain • Advice Gets Good When It Gets Specific
Being wise means having more questions than answers.
Great artists don’t study art history to figure out what art to create.
Great founders don’t analyze the market to figure out what product to build.
Naval Ravikanttwitter.comData, on one end of the spectrum, is separable, objective, linear, mechanistic, and abundant. Wisdom, on the other end of the spectrum, is holistic, subjective, spiritual, conceptual, creative, and scarce. [...] Today we are drowning in a raging flood of new data and information and the raft of wisdom to which we desperately cling is breaking
... See moreDee Hock • One from Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organizati…
Perhaps the simplest and best definition of wisdom I’ve heard is “knowing what information is important.” This kind of knowing is not solely done in the intellect. Data is constantly being fed into your unconscious, then cross referenced against your experience.