Supporting others is basically investing Investment is leverage for judgment You want to leverage your prudent judgment of others by supporting them If you don’t support promising people — you are leaving money on the table Support is obviously not about altruism — which doesn’t exist Support is predicated on self-interest …
Tag: Society
We Need That Savoir-Vivre
You need rules and guides where your intelligence can’t manage As society we needed rules of conduct to merely bear each other You don’t need rules of conduct and politeness if you know what you’re doing: if you know what you want, understand what others want, then move in the space of mutual interest …
Get Your Hands Dirty
Unless you get your hands dirty from time to time — you lose touch with the real life — and with it your perspective becomes narrow and artificial Gratitude comes from appreciation. Appreciation comes from perspective. You obviously don’t appreciate what you take for granted. You need that perspective to, literally, put things in …
Discriminate Not Hate
whether I hate you or love you whatever I label you or don’t label whether I offend you or please you doesn’t change the only thing of substance, and that’s: WHETHER you are USEFUL to me OR NOT just because I don’t want to associate with you doesn’t mean I hate you just because …
I don’t trust the unhappy
I don’t trust the unhappy I don’t trust the unhappy I’m not saying it lightly and it’s not a fancy quip It’s a genuine good advice Stay away from the unhappy Unhappy is unhappy for a reason Whatever causes him to be unhappy is an ongoing process Whatever actions he engages in are …
Begone Foolish Past
Look back at everything you’ve seen in life and realize how EVERYONE has been WRONG so many times We have a certain strange reluctance to admit our own cluelessness and of those around us There’s a whole lot of inane nonsense one is subjected to as a child, without having a choice on the …
Controversial But Real
Be as controversial as you can be but not 1% more then you actually are Controversy sells — as well as it makes you real, vulnerable human — but only as long as it’s real The moment it’s even 1% not real is when you forfeit all the respect
Grateful You Failed Me
I’m grateful to people for failing me It’s very easy to fake competence and virtue and very hard to prove it. I’m glad when someone fails me and immediately signals his incompetence Takes a long time to ascertain someone’s ability but only one mistake to reveal inability.
Convey YOURSELF
You likely didn’t upset that person. They were upset to begin with. It’s very easy to upset a faceless stranger. It’s very easy to impress a stranger. You don’t want to impress random strangers. You don’t want to cater to the mob. You don’t want to make it happy. Make your loved ones …
POMP
Pompousness is not just painfully turgid but it outright betrays incompetence, sentimentality and delusion. If it’s pompous and “inspiring” then it’s probably not very meaningful and intelligent. You probably want to avoid it. Energy spent on appearances and emotion is energy not spent on competence and not spent on what actually gets results …