the Jesus Christ Superstar album
Saturday, March 28, 2026
The 85% rule.....................
If you push and strain at maximum effort at all times, you set yourself up for burnout and bad results.
When you adopt a mindset of smooth, balanced, relaxed effort, you stay in the game long enough to let compounding work its magic. You achieve higher heights.
-Sahil Bloom, from this effort
Us history majors...............
...........typically spend little time thinking about the interplay between comparative advantage and competitive advantage. But, we are pleased that people like Noah Smith do.
Yes and no................
Saying yes to one thing is always saying no to something else. The cost of a bad yes isn't just the time it takes. It's whatever could have grown in that space instead.
The point isn't to say no to everything, but simply to recognize the difference between a good yes and a bad yes. Then, try to improve the ratio in your life.
-James Clear, from this edition
It's a brave new world.......................
1) "We are living through the first alt-war: a conflict in which the war fought online and the war fought in reality have diverged so completely that they might as well be happening on different planets. It’s not that people lack information, it’s more that they are constructing an entirely different alternate reality — one that confirms what they already believe."
Wednesday, March 25, 2026
a sense of self...................
That's why having a strong sense of identity is important because everyday the world will try to convince you into being somebody you're not. Authenticity leads to divine order & success.
Monday, March 23, 2026
three treasures.....................
Lao Tzu once said. “Simplicity. Patience. Compassion. These are your greatest treasures. He’s right and this has been known for thousands of years. Make these three treasures habits in your every day life.
-culled from Chris Lynch's substack
a mark.......................
It is the mark of an educated man to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Spent much of Saturday............................
............................................rearranging mine:
the quest........................
Life is full of experiences—touching and seeing and looking and doing and acting—but you're going to lose the lessons of those experiences if you don't take time to reflect.
We can all learn to gather up the past and invest in the future. Gather up today and invest it in tomorrow. Gather up this week and invest it in the next week. Gather up this year and invest it in the next year. Many people simply hang on one more year. They are just hanging in there, seeing what's going to happen. I am asking you to choose a different path, to learn, study, and reflect. This is a major part of personal development: the quest to become better than you are now.
proportionate....................
"Our rewards in life will always be in direct proportion to our contribution." This is the law that stands as the supporting structure of all economics and of our personal well being. . . .
Most people concentrate on the bowl marked "Rewards." That is, they want things—more money, a better home, education for the kids, travel, retirement and so on—all rewards. They're hungering for the rewards, but the rewards aren't materializing because they're forgetting the bowl marked "Contributions." In other words, they're concentrating on the wrong bowl. They're like the man who sat in front of the stove and said, "Give me heat, and then I'll give you wood." He could sit there until he froze to death. Stoves don't work that way, and neither does life or economics.
Sunday, March 22, 2026
When drinking largely sobers us..............
| A little learning is a dangerous thing; |
| Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: |
| There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, |
| And drinking largely sobers us again. |
| Fired at first sight with what the Muse imparts, |
| In fearless youth we tempt the heights of Arts; |
| While from the bounded level of our mind |
| Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind, |
| But, more advanced, behold with strange surprise |
| New distant scenes of endless science rise! |
| So pleased at first the towering Alps we try, |
| Mount o’er the vales, and seem to tread the sky; |
| The eternal snows appear already past, |
| And the first clouds and mountains seem the last; |
| But those attained, we tremble to survey |
| The growing labours of the lengthened way; |
| The increasing prospect tires our wandering eyes, |
| Hills peep o’er hills, and Alps on Alps arise! -Alexander Pope |
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