Tom White

You can literally destroy your happiness if you spend all of your time living in delusions of the future.

When I have given oral presentations, I reach my people more directly than if I’d written everything down for them to read. When people can see your face and hear the melody of your voice, your point gets across more vividly. Language evolved, after all, for face-to-face contact, not rendered as glyphs on paper.Imagine a square divided into four... See more

If you're going to have a story, have a big story, or none at all. —Joseph Campbell

We don’t understand consciousness. We might as well be generous with ours.

God does not promise that

we will be spared pain, injustice, or loss.

What he promises instead is something far greater:

that in the end nothing will be lost.

And this is where the Gospel turns toward us.

You don’t recover from an addiction when you’re deprived of that thing, you recover when you don’t want it anymore, even when it’s placed right in front of you. A true change in being is a change in appetite. True conversion is a change in heart.

Think about your placement as much as your performance. Plant yourself where you can thrive.

When perceived tails fatten, even if the median outcome remains the same, the textbook response is to sell the asset to reprice the multiple that you are willing to pay. This is the equity market specific equivalent to a rise in perceived future inflation volatility, which is also something that should lead to a repricing of bonds via the term... See more

Petrarch survived the Black Death in the 1340s, watched friends die to plague and bandits, and diagnosed the problem as bad leadership. Lords who cared about family honor over the public good. His prescription was to fill libraries with what the Romans read. Raise princes on Cicero and Plato. Make philosopher-kings by osmosis.