Some ideas to keep coming often

beautiful things don't ask for attention

Chronological Snobbery : “The assumption that whatever has gone out of date is on that account discredited. You must find why it went out of date. Was it ever refuted (and if so by whom, where, and how conclusively) or did it merely die away as fashions do? If the latter, this tells us nothing about its truth or falsehood. From seeing this, one

Morgan Housel • 100 Little Ideas

“You waste years by not being able to waste hours" - Amos Tversky

Three Men Make a Tiger: People will believe anything if enough people tell them it’s true. It comes from a Chinese proverb that if one person tells you there’s a tiger roaming around your neighborhood, you can assume they’re lying. If two people tell you, you begin to wonder. If three say it’s true, you’re convinced there’s a tiger in your... See more

Morgan Housel • 100 Little Ideas

There are the two convictions: one that focuses on the numbers and one that feels.

The feeling of clarity can be dangerously seductive. It is the feeling associated with understanding things. And we use that feeling, in the rough-and-tumble of daily life, as a signal that we have investigated a matter sufficiently. The sense of clarity functions as a thought-terminating heuristic

…the more time we spend in the tower’s mirror world of abstractions and the higher we climb, the more important it is that we hold on to a fistful of mud.

Non-Ergodic : When group probabilities don’t apply to singular events. If 100 people play Russian Roulette once, the odds of dying might be, say, 10%. But if one person plays Russian Roulette 100 times, the odds are dying are practically 100%.