Moi Jamri

“Unity is often confused with sameness. We may think that if everyone thought and acted the same, we would have perfect harmony. But unity is a process, whereas sameness is just a state of being. The same musical notes played again and again would be monotonous or irritating, but many different notes, each played differently, create a beautiful... See more

Well I think I've been in the top 5% of my age cohort all my life in understanding the power of incentives, and all my life I've underestimated it. And never a year passes, but I get some surprise that pushes my limit a little farther.

Equivocation, aka “calling two different things by the same name,” is the logical fallacy of using a word or phrase in an argument either:

• In an ambiguous way


• To mean two or more things

Here’s an example:

Salad is healthy, and taco salad is a salad. Therefore, taco salad is healthy.

“The most profound value of a tool is that it takes you beyond what happens inside your head,” he writes. “It connects you to a world infinitely bigger than you are, a world of limitless forces.”

Art has a purpose, which is to interest its audience.

Good art (like good anything) is art that achieves its purpose

particularly well.

“It’s very common to be utterly brilliant and still think you’re way smarter than you actually are.” – Munger