right brain > left brain
Nirvana Fallacy: just because something has a flaw does not mean that its useless.
Sean • Knowing Things Is Hard
Lion, lightning, invoice. Commit to memory, move on.
That shorthand spares calories, keeps skin intact, and lets us cross streets without philosophizing about trucks.
The tradeoff: the moment a thing fits a label, its edges fade.
Nuance gets deleted, anomalies slip through the net, the field of possibility shrinks.
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Jack Butcher
This feels infinitely related to the quote from Ian McGilchrist that Rory stated at the OK-RM table discussion event for their exhibition
Kaiser Josef Wrote Don Giovanni Syndrome (Phil Paine): we often give rulers credit for things that just happened when they were alive. If you asked the oligarchs of any declining place, they will tell you that they and their ancestors were the source of all wealth and creativity, when in fact the elites took over as the growth and newness were
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you cannot just focus on the outputs if you do you're going to sell you have to really understand the central engine of success you have to understand that business deeply
Founders Podcast • #365 Nick Sleep's Letters: The Full Collection of the Nomad Investment Partnership Letters
Halo Effect (Skepdic): if someone sounds wise, we tend to assume he or she is honest and good-looking. If someone is a criminal, we tend to expect that they cheat at senet and wear rumpled black.
