Real talk. Love it! As we say in the fishing industry, “that’s how it goes when you wear rubber clothes.”

The structure that emerges will always be far superior to the structure you set forth from the beginning.

You are not anxious because there are uncertainties, there will always be many uncertainties; you are anxious because you have never grown enough courage to embrace the reality that you will never be fully in control.

I found a lot of human behavior incomprehensible until I thoroughly internalized one principle: People will believe whatever allows them to be the hero of their own story. (more below)

“Detailed knowledge can no longer mean “deep” understanding, rather it must now be considered disconnected thinking; thinking that lacks context.”

Never once in my life have I thought about "learning skills", I just try to achieve outcomes and make stuff and it seems to work well. There's something about the whole idea of "learning skills" that seems super ineffective to me. There is one skill: achieving desired outcomes

Nothing is more dangerous to an ideology than reality.

The ability to know what you can't predict and work with unpredictability is the best measure of intelligence. (Fooled by Randomness, Chapter on Philostratus).

Daniel Vassallo 💯 and for those who feel they need to be at the top to feel good with themselves, here’s the healthiest way to fulfill this need

Giving up on debate is not the right response to what happened to Charlie Kirk. Instead, we should follow his example and re-establish free speech as a right people feel confident exercising. There must be more free debate on campus and elsewhere, not less. Give up nothing.

People think their own side is more tolerant than the other side because they’ve never found out what happens when they disagree with their own side.

Those who point out falsehoods on their own side are assumed to be working for the enemy, because our hunter-gatherer brains struggle to comprehend that someone could genuinely care about the truth more than any tribe. This makes political movements hard to self-correct.

Both sides are outraged by bothsidesism, because both believe their own moral superiority is obvious.

“The confidence people have in their beliefs is not a measure of the quality of evidence but of the coherence of the story that the mind has managed to construct.” —Daniel Kahneman

The fittest people aren’t trying to get fit. Once you understand this, you’ll understand any version of success.

Study, and you won’t truly understand. Make things, and you will truly understand. The information you’re after cannot be codified. It is not contained in textbooks or courses. It is tacit knowledge acquired through physical action that counts. It is that which is imprinted