aphorisms.
In America, intelligent people go to technology, curious people to science, creative people to the arts, greedy people to finance, and idiots go to work for the State Department. - Taleb.
too much structure and we lose meaning, too much freedom and we tip into floundering.
thinking, my labour; writing, my portal; leading, my reward.
the perpetual quest for efficiency is a machine’s role; to pursue efficiency at all cost is to become a machine.
The secret is not to chase butterflies, but to take care of the garden so they'll come to you
a moral system valid for all is immoral.
people who want power shouldn’t be in power.
life won't promise perfection, but get it right, and you'll find intrigue.
Consumption that does not eventually turn to creation ends in a kind of restless depression
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