Robin Harford

When taking notes, only record thoughts you’ve already metabolised, not unprocessed inputs you’ll never use. No highlighting. No copy and paste. Everything captured must be written in your own words. - Robin Harford

"I have the wisdom of the old world and the weapons of the new." - Robin Harford

"Conscience" is a slave driver, put into man by himself. It drives him to act according to wishes and aims which he believes to be his own, while they are actually the internalization of external social demands. It drives him with harshness and cruelty, forbidding him pleasure and happiness, making his whole life the atonement for some mysterious

Conscience and shame are the shackles of slaves. - Richard Roper (The Night Manager).

If your fundamental issue is that you have 1,500 notes and haven’t turned them into anything? If you keep accumulating inputs without producing outputs? If you’re perpetually “getting organized” but never actually organized? The problem isn’t that you lack a sufficiently powerful tool. The problem is you. - JA Westenberg

The idealogical purity cult that demands the individual sacrifice their life and creativity for the greater good, is the very foundation of totalitarianism. - Robin Harford

Simply put: smart people, by virtue of being very fucking smart, are better at constructing post-hoc rationalizations for beliefs they hold for emotional or social reasons. Everyone does this to some extent. We form impressions and then search for evidence to support them. But intelligent people search more effectively. They find better evidence,

The long game is the shortcut. - Harry Dry