aphorisms.
The measure of a man is the calmness in his eyes when everything around him and everything inside of him is broken.
One novel insight is often worth more than 100 hours of hard work.
Most hard problems of scale are solved with boring discipline versus random brilliance.
You’re not struggling with productivity. You’re struggling with not having a project worth being productive for.
Many choices in life essentially come down to deciding whether you want to eat well or sleep well.
I still don't know what lead to "success". But I know what leads to insuccess: a temperament of complaint, the mentality of permanent victimhood, and the collective and individual propensity for lamentation.
best writers don’t teach you new things—they shape words for truths you’ve always known but couldn’t say.
people who want power shouldn’t be in power.