Life Lessons
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
don’t know how else to explain it except to say that when I make time to read, my capacity to deal with my own life — and my own bullshit — expands . My natural tendency to be tightly wound loosens its grip.
Reading as a default state
material solutions can't fix spiritual problems
Zymurgy’s Law of Evolving Systems Dynamics: “Once you open up a can of worms, the only way to get it back in is to use a bigger can.”
Stoicism
The only controllable variable in any situation is you. Oddly, it's the last one people adjust.
— Shane Parrish
Left alone, a cup of coffee will gradually cool until it reaches room temperature.
Stable systems regress to the mean. Things level out on their way to average, which maintains the stability of the system.
The same pressures are put on any individual in our culture.
Sooner or later, unless you push back, you’ll end up at room
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