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Rhythms and Plagues
3 Insights “Desire is a contract that you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.” — Naval Ravikant “The three most
The Cobra Effect
3 Insights “You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.” — Thomas Sowell “A system
Propaganda in the Middle Ages
3 Insights “Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he seldom counts his joys.” — Dostoevsky “If you only read the books everyone else
The Illusion of Tyranny
3 Insights “The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.” — Richard P. Feynman “On
The Legacy of a Great Library
3 Insights “It’s undeniable how different you feel when you do all of the obvious things, like eat right, exercise, and get enough sleep” — Arianna
A Few Seconds Before Happiness
3 Insights “If you understand it, you don’t need to memorize it. If you don’t understand it, you don’t want to memorize it.” — Naval Ravikant
House of Medici
3 Insights “Hypothesis: living a diverse life increases happiness because it avoids addiction due to repetitively associating rewards to the same cues.” — Luca Dellanna “Your
Embrace Discomfort
3 Insights “We must be what we wish our children to be. They will form their characters from ours.” — John S.C. Abbott “Children are not
The End of an Era
3 Insights “Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly: they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.” — Aldous Huxley “An independent
How to Deal with Flattery
3 Insights “Learned we may be with another man’s learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.” ― Michel de Montaigne “If you’re
The Medieval Knight & The Crusades
3 Insights “I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.” — C. S. Lewis “The question you should be asking
A Traveler’s Perspective
3 Insights “Individuals who are focused on concerns of equity are likely to scan their environment for signs of potential injustice and to misread events
Why Not?
3 Insights “Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable, procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.” — George Washington
In Search Of Hope
3 Insights You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.” ― William Faulkner “On friendship and marriage: The