You must look around and ask yourself “the 3 questions for 3 losers”: -are they a loser? -am I a loser? -are you a loser? You want: -REFERENCE of a loser is -awareness of LOSERS in your life, losers you tolerate -and also acceptance of yourself likely being a loser Loser means simply …
Month: October 2025
Knowing More Than Others Is Not Enough To KNOW
Knowing more than others is not enough to KNOW Knowing more than others is not enough to NOT be wrong Also, of course: knowing that others are wrong doesn’t mean you’re right You’re merely NOT wrong in the same way that they are Also, of course: knowing a lot about unknowable is not …
What is Urgency, Actually?
What is urgency, actually? Is it desire? Desire to have something as soon as possible? Is it effort? Incurring dramatic effort, in order to get it done faster? Is it prioritisation? Pulling all resources into that single undertaking first? Is it stress? A necessary, painful token validating one’s seriousness? A chicken …
Good Theory vs Shit Theory
Good theory is like an edifice Good theory is an edifice Bad theory is a juvenile fantasy It’s mashing lego bricks together It’s doodling a tower with crayons It’s a castle made of sand It’s a house of cards Good theory is a structure that doesn’t collapse How does a theory collapse? …
Why NOT Measuring Everything Is Stupid
I wrote once: MEASURE EVERYTHING It strikes me as even more obvious now: How COULD YOU NOT measure everything?! It’s not “why”, it’s “HOW CAN YOU NOT”? When you go to the shop, do you just eyeball how much you should pay? Do you look at the CART, and GUESS how VALUABLE all …
What They Don’t See (Is What Matters)
Often it’s not what you see It’s what you DON’T SEE Of course, with knowledge – knowing what you DON’T KNOW is considered a virtue Everyone knows something But mistakes are made when you think you know something – but you don’t If you know you don’t know – you can work around it, …
About Building Powerful Systems (And Not Ideologies)
System works best when there’s a number of options, fallbacks and safety measures It’s not only robust but also agile. It’s antifragile indeed System is appraised by how it works as a whole How it’s subcomponents work can meaningfully inform how the whole works — or can be profoundly misleading (non-ergodic systems) Competition, …
The Fallacy Of Intangible
There’s the well-defined, and there’s the intangible relationships fairness attitude intention effort will intuition confidence worth goodness authenticity attraction But what does INTANGIBLE mean? Does it mean those things don’t exist? Does it mean those things are effectively intractable, UNCONTROLLABLE? And therefore IRRELEVANT practically? See that’s the fallacy of intangible, if you …