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This is a living archive of my thoughts, experiences, and hard-earned insights, drawn from an unusual life. Here you’ll find reflections on the food I’ve eaten, the things I’ve bought, the people I’ve encountered, the places I’ve seen, the books I’ve read, the quotes I’ve kept, and the trends I’ve spotted and capitalized on.
I write this for you, my children, those already here and those yet to come. Daddy loves you more than words can hold. I want each of you to live lives you’re proud of. This is my thinking, in my own voice, left here for you to explore. I hope one day it proves useful.
If, by some unlikely chance, I’m gone before I can guide you in person, let this stand as a poor substitute. But in the more likely case that I’m still here, let this serve as an intellectual archive, a record that I held these convictions long before you were born. May that give weight to my words, and credibility to the wisdom I hope to pass on to you.
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Between being loved and being feared, I have always believed Machiavelli was right. If nobody is afraid of me, I’m meaningless. Intelligent, rational and hard-working people can govern themselves perfectly fine. But unfortunately, only a small amount of the world population fits that description. Intelligent, rational and hard-working people can be reasoned with through arguments.…
If you were to spend less time theorizing on what SHOULD happen and take some time to look at the real world to get a better accurate understanding of what IS happening. Then you will come up with much cooler ideas, that will benefit the community more. You’re assuming that the market can tell the…
Using violence/and or coercion to advance social change usually backfires. It is like trying to fast grow a rose by yanking on it. Rather than letting the patience of sun and water do the job for you. The true progress of mankind is multi-generational and involves the gentle and peaceful parenting of children. “We scarcely…
How many of you have money in banks? None of you have money in banks. Please, you’re lawyers. You understand…. Bailment. It’s not your money, you have an “account” which is a legal construct that they give you in exchange for giving them an unsecured loan of your money. So that they can finance credit…
Convened at last, and in such continental company, England, France, Spain,.. Citizens of sad and corrupt empires, but you are XXX now, the secret and true litigators of the world. Please hold out your Hands and Mark the reminder of our purpose. To guide all wayward souls till they reach a quite road, to guide…
How could a man whose business has been concealment find it impossible to hide his emotions in this room? But Glokta knew how. It’s hard to stay calm when you’re terrified, helpless, alone, at the mercy of men with no mercy at all. Who could know that better than me? The old order crumbles. Loyalty,…
Whenever those states which have been acquired as stated have been accustomed to live under their own laws and in freedom, there are three courses for those who wish to hold them: the first is to ruin them, the next is to reside there in person, the third is to permit them to live under…
It’s a convenient fiction, but a fiction nonetheless. our experience tends to confirm that on one end of the political spectrum we have autocrats and tyrants—horrible, selfish thugs who occasionally stray into psychopathology. On the other end, we have democrats—elected representatives, presidents, and prime ministers who are the benevolent guardians of freedom. Leaders from these…
The only thing we learn from history,’ it has been said, ‘is that men never learn from history’, a sweeping generalization perhaps, but one which the chaos in the world today goes far to confirm. What then can be the reason why, in a society which claims to probe every problem, the bases of history are…
I had an impression that she was waiting for me to say something in reply, but words had abandoned me. Instead, my thoughts were engaged in a struggle to maintain a facial expression what would not appear idiotic. She listened to me speak with a series of smiles, as though she were sipping at my…
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