Some ideas to keep coming often
“You waste years by not being able to waste hours" - Amos Tversky
Days that are rushed = Days that suck
World we try to symbolize with this language is a world of process, change, differences, dimensions, functions, relationships, growths, interactions, developing, learning, coping, complexity. And the mismatch of our ever-changing world and our relatively static language forms is part of our problem
Buridan’s Ass : A thirsty donkey is placed exactly midway between two pails of water. It dies because it can’t make a rational decision about which one to choose. A form of decision paralysis.
Morgan Housel • 100 Little Ideas
The solution to a mediocre life is focus.
We must expect to misunderstand. We must expect to be misunderstood. For sanity we must try to minimise misunderstanding.
Cobra Effect: Attempting to solve a problem makes that problem worse. Comes from an Indian story about a city infested with snakes offering a bounty for every dead cobra, which caused entrepreneurs to start breeding cobras for slaughter.
Morgan Housel • 100 Little Ideas
There are the two convictions: one that focuses on the numbers and one that feels.
The Never-Ending Now - The structure of our social media feeds blinds us to history, as it causes us to live in an endless cycle of ephemeral content consumption. The structure of the Internet pulls people away from age-old wisdom