beautifully said
“People aren’t dumb. The world is hard.” — Richard Thaler
Adam Singer • All behavior makes sense with sufficient information
The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble
Carl Jung
Greatness does not come out of intelligence, it comes from character.
Character is not formed out of smart people: it is formed out of people who have suffered.
-Jensen Huang
the Black migration that built racial enclaves that became microsites of political power.
Opinion | The Way Harris Lost Will Be Her Legacy
“All great truths begin as blasphemies.” George Bernard Shaw
Peter D'Autry • Math and Logic Cannot Create Minds
Truth tellers are the Achilles heel of collective denial
“Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing--and keeping the unknown always beyond you.”
― Georgia O'Keefe
“I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.”
― Georgia O'Keefe
The opposite of distraction is traction.
Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your life – Nir Eyal (via Ali Abdaal)