Principles
If you can’t state that the opposing view on an issue as least as well as the people
supporting it, you’re not entitled to your own view
Tell a wise person or else keep silent
Goethe
My information consumption philosophy is simple:
(1) It must have a long shelf life.
(2) It must have taken considerable effort to create.
With these two principles, you can cut out most of the junk from your information diet.
Nick Maggiullix.comA great lil story from the book Art & Fear by David Bayles and Ted Orland:
The ceramics teacher announced on opening day that he was dividing the class into two groups. All those on the left side of the studio, he said, would be graded solely on the quantity of work they produced, all those on the right solely on its quality.
His procedure w
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Do my expectations match my level of effort? Make sure that they do, and if they don’t, adjust one to match the other
A good free-market society is one in which you can only get rich by making other people better off