When you get honest enough with yourself, you will often discover that deep down you are struggling with simple questions that never got fully answered.

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“The extreme of injustice is to seem to be just when one is not.” - Plato, The Republic

Compulsive behaviors and addictions are a way of remaining on the surface of things. When we turn to them rather than driving deeper into knowledge of ourselves, our motivations, fears and resentments, we lose the opportunity to know ourselves. The things we use to ease the

Pay the world whatever it takes to leave you alone to think.

Anti-Capitalist Argument: “We can’t stop institutions from being corrupted by profit so we’ll build a bigger institution and give it even more power.”

Anti-Capitalist Argument: “Elites use money to exploit people so we’ll make a class of elites who use the military and police to control an entire society.”

Anti-Capitalist Argument: We can’t enforce laws that stop people from exploiting each other so we’ll create laws that control what they’re allowed to say, do, own, sell, and purchase.

Elon Musk Yes. As a society we’re so focused on helping the poor that we’re largely blind to the idea that everybody could be rich. The methods for the first make the second impossible. Time for a revolution in thinking.

A dumb person’s idea of a smart person does not resemble a smart person. Similarly, most people who think they are educated are not, and their opinions on the subject are mostly just larping. Genuine education today is rare.

So many people look at their difficult circumstances and say they don't know what to do. That's rarely true. It's usually pretty easy to see what needs to be done. When people say, "I don't know what to do," they mean, "I am avoiding and hoping that if I waste enough time,

The measure of theory is the extent to which it deepens and articulates engagement with reality.

“No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.” -Voltaire

Philosophy is the ultimate technology.

One of the little known benefits of watching all of Curb Your Enthusiasm and really internalizing the Larry David comedic frame is that a new skit writes itself every single time you use a public restroom.

My biggest professional breakthroughs finally flooded in when I, a classic E/INTJ, realized that a web of strong relationships is a powerful alternative to brilliant systems. And indeed, all grand and enduring systems stand upon a foundation of such relationships.

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