"can a man be brave if he is afraid?" "that is the only time he can be brave."

“Ask yourself who you would want to spend the last day of your life with and then meet with them as often as you can.” This one stuck with me. Incredible advice from Warren Buffett

“No matter how isolated you are and how lonely you feel, if you do your work truly and conscientiously, unknown allies will come and seek you.” ― Carl Jung

In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn't read all the time, none, zero. —Charlie Munger

Maduro’s capture illustrates what I believe is one of the biggest problems in politics: people frequently treat principles as costumes—worn when convenient, discarded when costly. Over nearly two decades working in and around politics, I’ve watched the same pattern play out

Collect_ Counsel Your mess is proof something is alive in there. the clean houses are the empty ones. you are being eaten alive and it is holy

“The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.” - Faulkner

It is because we were meant to raise children in communities with a strong sense of tribalism. Now we exist in isolated pods because the standalone nuclear family is what we are told is the dream. The most common parroted critique is always about how the man of the house is not

Charlie Munger on Secret to Life: "The secret to life is easy because it’s so simple: You don’t have a lot of envy or resentment. You don’t overspend your income. You stay cheerful in spite of your troubles. You deal with reliable people, and you do what you’re supposed to do."

The cheat code nobody talks about: Being reliable. Answer emails quickly. Show up on time. Do what you said. Keep small promises. Remember details. In a world where everyone is flaky, reliability looks like genius. It's not talent.

The motherless monkey reveals a primordial truth of human psychology, one that modern science tempts us to dismiss, that love is indispensable to development, it is not some incidental chemical reaction. For a child, affection is a necessity not a luxury.

Most all of us did not agree with everything that Biden and Obama did, but I never once was concerned that they would destroy our country. Not once. I miss those days.

I don't want AI. I want functional public transit, walkable communities, and the light behind my eyes back.

Milennials (noun): A legendary tribe of 30-40 years old who look 25 but feel 65 who fueled by iced coffee, nostalgia, and mild panic

“Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac… We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. If liberty means anything at all, it means

The cost to extend the Obamacare subsidies is almost exactly the same as the cost of two weeks of this stupid war.

A cutting reflection from Cardinal Ratzinger, Good Friday 2005: "Pilate is not utterly evil. He knows that the condemned man is innocent, and he looks for a way to free him. But his heart is divided. And in the end he lets his own position, his own self-interest, prevail over

All parents traumatize their children. People hurt people. We traumatize each other, sometimes unintentionally. The work isn't to be perfect, it's to apologize, to be humble, and to keep trying to do better. That's how you create a healthy family.

Друзья иностранцы, хочу рассказать вам что у нас в городе Рига есть ресторан "Rozengrāls". Это полное погружение в средневековье, где нет электричества, горят свечи, а персонал играют роль будто они из прошлого. Интересный факт, это место существует с 1293 года. Поэтому если