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Saturday, January 6, 2024
Recommended.......................
The question "Why don't you agree with me?" can have infinite answers. . . .
But usually a better question is, "What have you experienced that I haven't that makes you believe what you do? And wwould I think about the world like you do if experienced what you have?"
It's the question that contains the most answers about why people don't agree with one another.
But it's such a hard question to ask.
Friday, January 5, 2024
Lessons learned.................................
................................................the hard way:
2. Don't give unsolicited advice. Advice-giving inherently implies unequal status. Unless people explicitly relinquish claims to equal status by asking for advice, offering it will cultivate resentment.
19. Be strict with yourself and forgiving of others.
25. Your choices shape your identity, not the other way around.
28. Be kind, but always have a “fuck off” chambered and ready to go just in case.
32. Everyone says they want change, few people are willing to change themselves, and just about everyone is eager to tell others how they should change.
Checking in ...................................
............................with Morgan Housel:
Evolution is ruthless and unforgiving—it doesn't just teach by showing you what works but by destroying what doesn't.
Success has its own gravity. . . .being right instills confidence that you can't be wrong, which is a devastating characteristic in a world where outlier success has a target on its back.
Every industry and career is different, but there's universal value in accepting hassle when reality demands it.
the truth is, everything comes with overhead. That's reality. Everything comes with pieces you don't like.
The most efficient calendar in the world—one where every minute is packed with productivity—comes at the expense of curious wandering and uninterrupted thinking, which eventually become the greatest contributors to success.
Not maximizing your potential is actually the sweet spot in the world where perfecting one skill compromises another.
The best financial plan is to save like a pessimist and invest like an optimist.
The trick in any field—from finance to careers to relationships—is to be able to survive the short-run problems so you can stick around long enough to enjoy the long term growth.
A pretty good lesson from history is that the long run is usually pretty good and the short run is usually pretty bad. It takes effort to reconcile those two and learn how to manage them with what seem like conflicting skills. Those who can't usually end up either bitter pessimists or bankrupt optimists.
-all are excerpts taken from Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes
Life its ownself...........................
In the bivouac of Life,
Be not like dumb, driven cattle!
Be a hero in the strife!
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, as lifted from the wondrous Hammock Papers
Monday, January 1, 2024
A reminder..................
There is a lot written about happiness and its elusive nature. However, what we can do is create conditions within and outside of us where happiness is more likely to happen. Happiness is not a thing that happens to us but rather a thing that we create for ourselves through our mindset, how we relate with our problems and how we generally see the world.
-from the archives of Tanmay Vora
Asking all the important.....................
.....................................questions for 2024.
Mighty fine advice....................
Let's lower our voices, listen carefully, and have a great year.
Sunday, December 31, 2023
apparatniks.......................
Our apparatniks will continue making
the usual squalid mess called History:
all we can pray for is that artists,
chefs and saints may still appear to blithe it.
all we can pray for is that artists,
chefs and saints may still appear to blithe it.
-W. H. Auden, as he concludes Moon Landing
About explaining.............
The more time it takes to explain a course of action, the less likely it is to be a good one.
-from our friends at Farnum Street
Posting reading lists....................
..............seems to be something poplar in the blogosphere. Here are most of mine from 2023.
1. Books actually read in the past year:
2. Books purchased in 2023 that have been opened, dipped into, and occasionally cherry-picked for the blog, with the intention of actually finishing them sometime in the not-to-distant future:
3. Books purchased in 2023 that may, or may not, get read:
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