The truth will set you free. But first it will piss you off.

A Chilean saying:

“Criticizing a musician is easy, but it is more difficult when you have a guitar in your hand.”

It is the mark of a charalatan to explain a simple concept in a complex way.

Being poor is not having too little, it is wanting more.

This is the fastest way that I'm aware of that's anchored in real known biology to calm oneself down… It's an inhale through the nose, and the it's another inhale on top, and then a long exhale. That's the fastest way to slow your heart down and calm down.

“N years of experience” requirements are unnecessary gatekeeping. Smart people can pick up anything quickly, and diverse perspectives are valuable.

Socialist and nationalist revolutionaries are Latin America’s most successful criminal gangs, augmenting sheer brutality with fanatical ideology. The average person in these countries, however, craves tranquility and opportunity. Revolutionaries are a handful of wolves who make daily life hell, all the while vainly promising a heaven-on-earth that never comes. Unlike ordinary criminal gangs, however, Latin America’s revolutionaries have global legions of defenders and apologists.

Kafka in his Diaries writes that there are two cardinal sins from which all others sins derive: impatience and laziness.

If you can't decide, the answer is No.

When you see a good move, look for a better one.

I understand there's a guy inside me who wants to lay in bed, smoke weed all day, and watch cartoons and old movies. My whole life is a series of stratagems to avoid, and outwit, that guy.

Look around your environment.

Rather than seeing items as objects, see them as magnets for your attention. Each object gently pulls a certain amount of your attention toward it.

Whenever you discard something, the tug of that object is released. You get some attention back.

Remember that the thing that is most likely to be wrong is the thing that you heard most recently, because we've not had the chance to verify it yet.

It's easier to win an argument with a genius than an idiot.

The best arguments in the world won't change a single person's mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story.

Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to you.

Modern history is a race between education and catastrophe.

Tools can be a subtle trap.

-- The Sandman

Demarco and Lister, in their famous Coding War Games experiment, demonstrated just this - the best predictor of quality for programmers, they found, was not years of experience or salary but rather how quiet their office environment was.

If you don't understand it at 2pm, good luck at 2am.