Words to Start the Week (Jan. 20, 2025)
Nuggets from past notes
”Whenever a society has a concept of heresy and orthodoxy, orthodoxy becomes a substitute for virtue. You can be the worst person in the world, but as long as you’re orthodox you’re better than everyone who isn’t. This makes orthodoxy very attractive to bad people”
“Well-being is realized by small steps, but is truly no small thing”
“History teaches us that a crisis often causes problems to correlate in a manner undreamed of in more tranquil times…Linkage, when it suddenly surfaces, can trigger serious systematic problems”
“Companies don’t die because the companies fail, they die because the entrepreneur gives up”
“Never invest in any idea you can’t illustrate with a crayon”