Some ideas to keep coming often
Luxury Paradox : The more expensive something is the less likely you are to use it, so the relationship between price and utility is an inverted U. Ferraris sit in garages; Hondas get driven.
Morgan Housel • 100 Little Ideas
In the cosmos of time, we are nothing but a fart in the wind
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
Double Thank You moment : How many times have you paid $1 for a cup of coffee and after the clerk said, "Thank you," you responded, "Thank you"? There's a wealth of economics wisdom in the weird double thank-you moment. Why does it happen? Because you want the coffee more than the buck, and the store wants the buck more than the coffee. Both of you
... See moreFlaubert famously said, “Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”
“You waste years by not being able to waste hours" - Amos Tversky
Non-linear outcomes could come if one can identify signal over noise but also weak signal over strong signal.
Your mind is for getting ideas not holding ideas
We create problems for ourselves by using static language (e.g. judgements) to capture a reality that is dynamic & ever changing — by mixing observations and evaluations