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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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times of peace are when the wise prepare for violence There’s a time for subtlety and a time for action!’‘There is never a time for recklessness, Leo. Or for vanity You have it in you to be a great man, but you cannot let yourself be swept off by whatever emotion blows your way. Battles…
The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one’s negative experience is itself a positive experience. The avoidance of suffering is a form of suffering. The avoidance of struggle is a struggle. The denial of failure is a failure. Hiding what is shameful is itself a form…
Is it not written in Sage Kon Fiji’s Tales of Filial Devotion that the younger brother should offer the choicest specimens in a basket of plums to the elder brother as a token of his respect? Is it also not written that an elder brother should try to protect the younger brother from difficult tasks…
he was too set in his ways to recognize my brilliance a reformed man is worth ten men virtuous from birth, for he understands temptation and will strive the harder to not stray Rui and Dasu foamed at their mouths and called the edict a crime against civilization. But Mapidéré knew perfectly well that what…
The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way become the way. The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition. Choose not to be harmed – and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed – and you haven’t been. Blessings and…
any good could serve as the medium of exchange, as the scope and size of the economy grows it becomes impractical for people to constantly search for different goods that their counterparty is looking for, carrying out several exchanges for each exchange they want to conduct. A far more efficient solution will naturally emerge, if…
Anger feels good. Although we may consciously experience it as upsetting, somatically it’s a lot like the initial rush of an opiate, a tingling warmth you feel on the insides of your elbows and wrists, in the back of your knees. Understanding that anger was a physical pleasure explained some of the perverse obstinacy with…
A self-help book is an oxymoron. You read a self-help book so someone who isn’t yourself can help you, that someone being the author. This is true of the whole self-help genre. It’s true of personal improvement books too. Some might even say it’s true of religion books. But some others might say that those…
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.…
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