on an optimal and falliable exploration
Somewhere in the future, your today is the good old days. There is a good chance later in life, you want to live your today’s good old days, despite its shortcomings.
Stoic #1: Use Prospective Retrospection to Minimize Future Regret
I don't know. Could be worse. Could be better. I don't subscribe to any kind of theory that says things used to be better. That's bullshit. 200 years ago, people used to just, like, stare at flowers and go, "man we stare at flowers too much we gotta be farming."
Alex Dobrenko` • I posted 300+ Threads in 3 days
Writer Gertrude Stein's definition of genius: somebody who knows who to be influenced by.
Katie Dalebout • this last list is light...
Warren Buffett used a very apt metaphor once to describe how the second-order problem is best described by a crowd at a parade: Once a few people decide to stand on their tip-toes, everyone has to stand on their tip-toes. No one can see any better, but they’re all worse off.
Rhiannon Beaubien • The Great Mental Models Volume 1: General Thinking Concepts
All I know is what I have words for
The cowards never started and the weak died along the way. That leaves us, ladies and gentlemen. Us.
Phil Knight • Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
From anger, delusion arises, and from delusion bewilderment of memory. When memory is bewildered, intelligence is lost, and when intelligence is lost, one falls down again into the material pool.
Bhagavad Gita As It Is Original by Prabhupada
We spend a lot of time trying to get smarter and not enough time talking about how to avoid gettin dumber.
Ezra Klein