Eye2theLongRun

A friend, Stephen Jennings, has always had a great knack for expressing tough ideas very succinctly. Here he is on risk – very pithy, apparently obvious, but frequently ignored here is one of his summaries of risk:

If you want to do risky things, you have to accept that things will go wrong. You can’t say you’ll take the good times and have a lot of success then be resentful when things don’t go well.”

11 Jan 2022

Three ways to be more rational this year – BBC News

“You can’t replace reading with other sources of information like videos, because you need to read in order to write well, and you need to write in order to think well.”

— Paul Graham

One reason is that:

Writing is often the process by which you realize that you do not understand what you are talking about.