Pritesh

“Writing solidifies, chat dissolves.”

This is why the influencer dream is so seductive and so dangerous. It promises intensity without consistency, passion without discipline, reward without work. It's the lottery ticket approach to career planning, and like most lottery tickets, it's a tax on not understanding probability.

As financial advisor Carl Richards says, “Risk is what’s left over after you think you’ve thought of everything.”

That’s the real definition of risk—what’s left over after you’ve prepared for the risks you can imagine.

Risk is what you don’t see.”

Memes and Aphorisms are the same thing.

Plus, most ambitious ideas seem wrong at first. If a new idea was obviously good, someone else would have already done it.

Because, like an aphorism, Memes communicate a lot with very little. You could take a meme and write an entire essay about it.

But debts, much like people, only age in one direction. Unlike people, debts universally decline in value as they age.

Everything looks certain in hindsight, but at the time uncertainty ruled the day.