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The clock starts the moment you know.

Money is a byproduct, not a motivation.

No job is below you.

If you want responsibility, take it.

Don’t run from confrontation.

If you don’t get what you want, be prepared to walk away.

The best way to learn is to start something, where each step teaches you every task.

Instinct beats algorithms.

“Data can tell you... See more

Programmer Ward Cunningham on reducing the cost of mistakes when making decisions:

“I can't tell you how much time is spent worrying about decisions that don't matter. To just be able to make a decision and see what happens is tremendously empowering, but that means you have to set up the situation such that when something does go wrong, you can fix... See more

Complexity increases because adding is easy and removing is dangerous.

Whenever there's a problem, we add: a new person, requirement, or process. We never subtract.

Why?

Because everything that already exists has a champion. That clause in the tax code, that step in the process, that feature in the product ... someone fought for it, and they'll fight... See more

One popular narrative held that governments had unleashed the Covid-19 virus to force people into isolation, thereby giving construction crews the time and space to build out 5G networks. When a vaccine was eventually developed, the radiation from 5G towers would interact with graphene oxide nanomaterials that were integrated into the injections.

I need to create crisis in my life because I am actually afraid of living it.

The pattern of unnecessarily creating crises in my life is an avoidance technique. It distracts me from actually having to be vulnerable, or accountable for all the things I am afraid of.

I am never upset for the reason I think I am. At the core of my desire to create... See more

Moods are created by habitually. It’s not a singular event that throws us off - it’s the pattern of continually experiencing a thought that compounds its effect and makes it feel valid.

The Spyglass Self:

We develop our identities by glimpsing ourselves through others' eyes, imagining how they see us, adjusting ourselves accordingly. Since personality is a performance in the limelight of another’s gaze, we cannot be someone without someone to be someone for.

“Every problem, every dilemma, every dead end we find ourselves facing in life, only appears unsolvable inside a particular frame or point of view. Enlarge the box, or create another frame around the data, and problems vanish, while new opportunities appear. ”*