Thought provoking

the acceleration of things has made us miserable because our choices are no longer sufficiently limited that we feel we can accomplish everything we want. We’ve created an acceleration and an explosion of choice, which will permanently leave us feeling fundamentally unsatisfied or under-optimized

Charlie Munger’s formula: “There is an old two-part rule that often works wonders in business, science, and elsewhere: (1) Take a simple, basic idea and (2) take it very seriously.”

Your environment shapes you more than willpower.

radical agency is about finding real edges: things you are willing to do that others aren’t, often because they’re annoying or unpleasant

There are things in life where the value is precisely in the inefficiency, in the time spent, in the pain endured, in the effort you have to invest.