A view of life and commercial real estate from Newark and Licking County, Ohio
We always have a choice. What we don't always have, unless we create it, is something to measure our choices against.
That is what a clear vision gives you: a way to decipher whether a decision is good or bad for you, based on whether it gets you closer or further away from where you want your life to go.
-Arnold Schwarzenegger, Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life
No, we don’t need more sleep. It’s our souls that are tired, not our bodies. We need nature. We need magic. We need adventure. We need freedom. We need truth. We need stillness. We don’t need more sleep, we need to wake up and live.
.......................................Martin Gurri:
This being an age of social justice, I want to recognize the achievements of today’s most ruthlessly marginalized and stereotyped ethnicity: the Anglo-Saxons.
It’s the unbidden realization that you are deeply into the second half of your life . . .
You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
-Steve Jobs, as quoted here
King-Slutzky, whose thesis is on “theories of the imagination and poetry as interpreted through a Marxian lens” and the “fantasies of limitless energy in the transatlantic Romantic imagination from 1760–1860,” and whose fantasies are indeed limitless, goes on . . .
I think this is the most practical way to think about debt: As debt increases, you narrow the range of outcomes you can endure in life.
The leakage of prestige from politicized universities is overdue and wholesome. Those schools that once were preeminent and now are punchlines might soon have a bruising rendezvous with real politics, which, unlike the sandbox radicalism of campus playgrounds, can be serious.
-George Will, as excerpted here
What’s the average college GPA of an American millionaire? 2.9 out of 4.0.
Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hatred, and hatred leads to violence. This is the equation.
-attributed to Averroes
Investing is hard, but it doesn’t need to be as hard as people make it. As John Rahm and Scottie Scheffler illustrate, success can come in very different forms, so long as you consistently adhere to your process.
Risk-seeking and risk-mitigating can both be successful strategies, so long as you are disciplined enough to stick to them.
-Ted Lamade, as excerpted from here
Read a lot of history so you can understand how weird the past was; that way you will be comfortable with how weird the future will be.
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