Pritesh

“I don’t know” is not an admission of ignorance. It’s an expression of intellectual humility.

“I was wrong” is not a confession of failure. It’s a display of intellectual integrity.

“I don’t understand” is not a sign of stupidity. It’s a catalyst for intellectual curiosity.

humans are particularly wired to follow the cues of three groups: the close, the many, and the powerful.

Senses that are not cultivated tend to atrophy.

The appeal of learning through others is that it can be efficient. Books, mentors, case studies all compress years of experience into hours of consumption. But compression has a cost: it assumes a decoder. Without proper tacit knowledge, the message can lose meaning or, in some cases, be actively confused. In these cases, theory isn’t wrong, just... See more

The thing about great institutions (a fancy way of saying “the rules we all agree to play by”) is they’re expensive to build.