Robin Harford
@robin
I am a multi-disciplinary artist.
Robin Harford
robinharford.com
"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
... See moreErich Fromm • Escape From Freedom
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,
... See moreThe long game is the shortcut. - Harry Dry
“All of man’s problems stem from his inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” Blaise Pascal
Why differentiation matters more than imitation in entrepreneurship: Dyson, Edwin Land, control, iteration, and compounding advantage.
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It's so like orthodoxy just really needs to be off the table from the beginning of a project or like from the beginning of decision making.
Have you ever studied James Dyson? Not enough.
In fact, I can only recommend one book ever. It's his first autobiography. but he has a crazy line about this.
So this is also very common with great entrepreneurs
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