Thoughts
The best risks pay you even when you lose.
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Humility without lucidity is submission.
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Listen to those who are risking something to speak out.
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Worried about your home on vacation? Your belongings own you.
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Once everyone agrees on the best option, it stops being one.
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Too many options create anxiety disguised as freedom.
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Two ways to feed pigeons: birdseed and the news.
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It's not time that reveals people. It's variance.
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Level 0: I want to change A.
Level 1: I realize that I can't change A, but I don't accept it.
Level 2: I accept that I can't change A.
Level 3: What can I enjoy about A? How can I get the most out of it?
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Restricting kids’ roaming creates a negative feedback loop: fewer kids outside means they're more at risk.
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The reputation fallacy: taking your years in a field and your peers’ approval as evidence that you’re right.
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Credentials are poor proxies for insight.
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Use school; don't let it use you.
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School replaces the desire to create with the fear of failure.
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School is the only place you have to go back to when you're bullied.
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Art schools clone people. Clean, conceptual, sterile work to please institutions.
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Some fools are smart, and some intellectuals are fools.