A collection of aphorisms I've been writing over the years.
The weight of freedom feels much lighter than the comfort of stability.
Adulthood should be about responsabilities, challenges, and adventures.
At one point you realize success comes from repetition, ad nauseum - not from chasing what's new.
It's a relief to know you're on the right train and eventually you'll get to your stop.
Procrastination is the sign of an exhausted mind.
I could have all the money I wanted to live a full life, and still be dead inside.
Of all the things money can buy, money's not one of them.
Something clicks when you realize there's multiple ladders to being alive.
Americans would have a much easier time accepting handouts if they saw it as an investment in keeping their streets safe.
If you lack motivation, try being afraid.
Life's inviting you to a fight and you're turning it down?
Action solves all problems.
Deliberate inaction is an action.
Every time you think about the future, you can choose to do so with optimistic or pessimistic lenses. It's your choice.
We spend more time examining pictures before we post them on social media than analyzing our own lives.
When you see the world as the sum of the choices of every human, alive or dead, you start to see you too can mold it.
What you choose to risk shows what you're not afraid of losing: money, time, health, love.
Media defines the worldview of society. If our media is pessimistic, what does that give us?.
Trend line over current point.
We can measure progress by how much we’re reducing the price of things. No wonder people feel we’re not progressing in housing, healthcare, or access to education.
Religion is branding for philosophy.
People don’t want kids anymore because when they noticed other peoples kids, it’s when they’re in their worst behavior.
Nothing good ever came from being angry.
The real problem of doing it on your own is not running out of money; it’s the stress it induces that leads to bad decisions.
The biggest poison on the mind is the feeling of scarcity.
Despite moving humanity forward, metrics and tracking data on the level of the individual feels profane. See: obsessing over sleep scores.
The problem of trying to summarize complex systems into a nicely readable metric is that we don’t know what we don’t know about the system. We might be doing more harm than good.
Unless you’re a monk, you’ll always feel stressed. So choose what you stress about. Can you control it?.
We need goals that inspire us to do better. What’s humanity’s goal?.
Cities don’t feel bland because they’re modern. It’s because they lack traditions.
Rulers are important because they dictate the goal of their civilization.
Via negativa is the solution to many of life’s problems.
Funny how the modern man needs tasks and systems to manage what everyone else before them had: time.
Social media use is not the cause of a sad life, but the result of one.
Social media use is not the cause of a frustrated life, but the result of one.
There will always be more work, but there won’t always be more time.
It’s quite ridiculous you find life boring when there’s so much out there to make exciting.
You don’t lack goals. You lack imagination.
We set so many goals and ambitions, but shy away from achieving the greatest feat: being a better person.
Anxiety is created by the past, fear is driven by the future, yet they all destroy the present.
How fortunate am I to solve the problems I once dreamed of having.
The heavy part of pushing a boulder up a hill is not the boulder itself, but the thought of it.
The best places in the world feel dreadful without meaning. The most inhospitable feel joyful with it.
Tourism is to traveling what masturbation is to sex.
There’s only two types of people: those who can live with change, and those who can’t.
A rich life is one with the possibility of being unstringed by anything, while not being unstringed from everything.
The mind is a creator. Think of solutions, and they’ll appear. Think of problems, and alas, they too will appear.
Most would benefit from breaking with their routines for 1 day every 3 weeks, and not more.
The biggest enemy of a nation is itself.
Healthy ambition is the one you’re fiercely attached to but care little about.
The mind is like a sponge - be careful of what you soak it with.
What a misfortune to have a life of no misfortunes!.
The best things in life involve maximum optionality or minimum optionality. Everything in the middle is dreadful.
Coincidences, destiny, or acts of god - they all mean the same.
Happiness is inversely related to how many breaking news you’re aware of.