How to think
The secret is not to chase butterflies, but to take care of the garden so they'll come to you
Don’t be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.
Maria Popova • George Saunders on How to Live an Unregretting Life
The good life is one inspired by love
and guided by knowledge.
(Bertrand Russell)
Rory Sutherland on why group decision making is often worse than personal judgement https://t.co/Gj6CRLLF40
If you want to create the common sense that comes from twenty years of being in the world, you need to devote twenty years to the task. You can't assemble an equivalent collection of heuristics in less time; experience is algorithmically incompressible.
Ted Chiang, The Lifecycle of Software Objects