Thoughts
Compensatory measures don't work. No committee can replace what took centuries to grow.
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The best insect hotel is nature.
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We're less likely to risk the money we've worked hard for than the money we've been given.
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Take risks that will yield something even if you fail.
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Humility without lucidity is submission.
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When you lose interest in yourself, you become a slave to entertainment.
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Listen to those who are risking something to speak out.
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"What did you ship this week?" is acceptable for a team. But individuals move faster and can ask themselves, "What did I ship today?"
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Worried about your home on vacation? Your belongings own you.
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Copying someone's style makes you look like a dork. (A conclusion inspired by a quote from the late Andy Irons).
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You keep falling on green waves because you haven't quite mastered white water yet.
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The best spots are packed; it's the perfect place to risk a collision, get into arguments with other surfers, and catch only two waves in two hours.
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A versatile surfboard will make you happy. Having too many boards creates anxiety: what if you choose the wrong one for the session?
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Two ways to feed pigeons: birdseed and the news.
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Drug-war is politician-electing theater; it ignores mental drivers.
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You don’t truly know someone by clocking hours with them . You know them by situational stress. Share an office for a decade and learn nothing; take a trip or start a venture together and you'll uncover their real character. It's not time that reveals people. It's variance.
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When we accumulate, we bury what’s important; when we reduce, we find it.
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Forcing unwanted things leads to low use and waste of public funds.
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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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Aphorisms aren't very helpful for solving domain dependence.
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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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Degrees didn't invent good ideas.
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Use school; don't let it use you.
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They force children into education and then complain that they lack autonomy.
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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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Over-specialized schooling narrows minds.
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Art schools clone people. Clean, conceptual, sterile work to please institutions.
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My late great-grandmother, Marie-Thérèse Weidig, used to say: some fools are smart, and some “intellectuals” are fools.