“Children burden women. Women burden men. A man with a family is twice burdened.”
“Real world consequences > Intellectualising”
“We know far better what is bad than what is good. When treating others, no bad actions > good actions.”
“You will never convince someone they are wrong. Only reality can. Everyone is at risk of experiencing the downside of their decisions.”
“Risk focuses the brain. If you can muster the speed to run from a fire you can replicate this again.”
“If you do not take risks for your opinion, you are nothing”
“Be careful of people proposing complex solutions for a problem. They have incentive to seem sophisticated instead of just solving the actual problem”
“When people win they have short explanations, when they lose they have long ones”
“Don’t ask whether it makes sense, ask whether it works”
“It’s easy to spin a story that it is easier to continue than to stop (when making a bad choice)”
“The more you focus on optimization of your work, the more you will dislike it”
“Learning is rooted in repetition and convexity. Reading one book twice is more useful than two books once.”
“No person in a transaction should have certainty about the outcome while the other one has uncertainty”
“The most reliable advocate for a product is its user.”
“Every metric is gameable. Be very careful how metrics are used in performance.”
“People who depend on their reputation within a corporation are the most fragile. Manners don’t matter if you are profitable.”
“You can define a free person precisely as someone whose fate is not centrally or directly dependent on peer assessment.”
“Freedom entails risks. Freedom is never free.”
“People who are easy to understand are more likely to be BSers. Complex people are more likely to be truthful.”
“True intellect should not appear intellectual”
“Virtue is what you do when nobody is looking. Virtue is not something you advertise.”
“Courage is the only virtue you cannot fake.”
“Change for the sake of change is frequently the enemy of progress”
“If wealth is giving you fewer options instead of more, you are doing it wrong.”
“Verbal threats reveal nothing beyond weakness and unreliability. Either act or don’t.”
“You can criticize what a person said or what a person meant. One is honorable, the other is embarrassing.”
“Humans are largely collaborative except when institutions get in the way. In the jungle, there are very few predators compared to collaborative animals. Humans are the same.”
“People who derive all their knowledge from books live in a fantasy world”
“People who denounce religion as whacky and ritualistic also meditate every day and attend concerts in awe. When you think about it everyone has some sort of ritualistic gestures they do.”
“Judging people by their beliefs is not scientific.”
“Beware of labels when it comes to matters associated with beliefs”
“There is a section called ‘ocular deception’ which is a new way to describe Instagram and Facebook”
“Volatile things are not necessarily risky, and the reverse is also true. Risk and ruin are different things.”
“Having exposure to the real world, with upside and downside, is the only way to learn properly (‘pathemata mathemata’ – guide your learning through pain)”
“The doer wins by doing, not convincing. E.g. if someone is trying to convince you how cool their life is then it is not cool”
“The perfect entrepreneur doesn’t care about anything except to satisfy a fixation. E.g. Musk just wants to go to fucking Mars, nothing will stop him.”
“How often you forecast correctly is unimportant. It is which outcomes you can forecast right which matter.”
“Avoid taking advice from someone who gives advice for a living, unless there is a penalty for their advice.”
“There are some risks we just cannot afford to take (systemic risks). There are some risks we cannot afford to NOT take.”
“The most intolerant group tends to always win. Society evolves by the intolerant minority.”
“By minority rule, it takes very few detractors to scare an institution into firing you by using certain buzzwords regardless of whether they are true, e.g. XYZ-ist”
