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"If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate. Give in to it....Anyway, whatever it is, don’t be afraid of its plenty. Joy is not made to be a crumb."

Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.

❤️

Employees want to know what you value, and they discover it by what you recognize & praise.

Many people may rightly say, “I had nothing to do with how this all started." And, yes. Not one of us was here when this house was built. Our immediate ancestors may have had nothing to do with it, but here we are, the current occupants of a property with stress cracks built into the foundation. We are the heirs to whatever is right or wrong with it. And any further deterioration is, in fact, on our hands.

One way in which a centralized decision-making grop fails is they tend to be domineering. Most commonly seen when those making decisions are abstracted from the consequences of the decisions e.g. architecture groups in which the members write little code.

At quickly growing companies, there are two managerial skills that have a disproportionate impact on your organization's success: making technical migrations cheap, and running clean reorganizations.

There are two best kinds of reorgs:
- one that solves a structural problem
- the one that you don't do

The fact that something stops working at significantly increased scale is a sign that it was designed appropriately to the previous constraints rather than being over-designed.

Hmm need to gloss over this section - "According to Buddhism, this force does not stop with the non-functioning of the body, which is death; but it continues manifesting itself in another form, producing re-existence which is called rebirth."

Organizational design gets the right people in the right places, empowers them to make decisions, and then holds them accountable for their results.

Humans have six core needs in the workplace (BICEPS):

Belonging
Improvement/Progress
Choice
Equality/Fairness
Predictability
Significance

These are the four stages a group goes through as it evolves from a bunch of strangers to a unified collective with common goals: Forming, Storming, Norming and Performing.

How much can a crown be worth, when a crow can dine upon a king?

Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time.

“The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them.”

With outcome-based habits, the focus is on what you want to achieve. With identity-based habits, the focus is on who you wish to become.
All habits proceed through four stages in the same order: cue, craving, response, and reward.
Maximum motivation occurs when facing a challenge of just manageable difficulty.
- Use the Two-Minute Rule.
- Never miss twice.
- Make it obvious, attractive, easy and satisfying

In the Northern Hemisphere, the switch to daylight savings time in March results in most people losing an hour of sleep opportunity. Should you tabulate millions of daily hospital records, as researchers have done, you discover that this seemingly trivial sleep reduction comes with a frightening spike in heart attacks the following day.

Denmark recently became the first country to pay worker compensation to women who had developed breast cancer after years of night-shift work in government-sponsored jobs, such as nurses and air cabin crew.

“What good is this, I ask you? He who hurries through life hurries to his grave.”

There’s no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it.

“When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground.”

When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies, but the pack survives.

We are more powerful than ever before, but have very little idea what to do with all that power. Worse still, humans seem to be more irresponsible than ever. Self-made gods with only the laws of physics to keep us company, we are accountable to no one. We are consequently wreaking havoc on our fellow animals and on the surrounding ecosystem, seeking little more than our own comfort yet never finding satisfaction.

For close to 4 billion years, every single organism on the planet evolved subject to natural selection. Not even one was designed by an intelligent creator.

We can congratulate ourselves on the unprecedented accomplishments of modern Sapiens only if we completely ignore the fate of all other animals.If we accept a mere tenth of what animal-rights activists are claiming, then modern industrial agriculture might well be the greatest crime in history. When evaluating global happiness, it is wrong to count the happiness only of humans.

Racism was replaced by culturism. Today’s elites usually justify superiority in terms of historical differences between cultures rather than biological differences between races. We no longer say, ‘It’s in their blood.’ We say, ‘It’s in their culture.’

They noticed that the earliest Sanskrit speakers, who had invaded India from Central Asia more than 3,000 years ago, had called themselves Arya. The speakers of the earliest Persian language called themselves Airiia. European scholars consequently surmised that the people who spoke the primordial language that gave birth to both Sanskrit and Persian (+ Greek, Latin, Gothic &Celtic) must have called themselves Aryans.

Columbus didn't believe that the Bible could have missed half the world.
In error believing that Amerigo Vespucci had been the person who discovered it, Waldseemüller named the continent in his honour – America.There is poetic justice in the fact that a quarter of the world, two of its seven continents, are named after a little-known Italian whose sole claim to fame is that he had the courage to say, ‘We don’t know.’

Columbus didn't believe that the Bible could have missed half the world.
In error believing that Amerigo Vespucci had been the person who discovered it, Waldseemüller named the continent in his honour – America.There is poetic justice in the fact that a quarter of the world, two of its seven continents, are named after a little-known Italian whose sole claim to fame is that he had the courage to say, ‘We don’t know.’

At 0.08 blood alcohol level, the hippocampus starts to struggle. At 0.15 it shuts down & memories stop forming, that's the way blackouts work. But it's entirely possible that the frontal lobes, cerebellum and amygdala continue to function normally so you can do anything you can do while you're drunk, you're just not going to remember it.

The Holy Fool is a is a truth teller because he is an outcast. Those who are not part of existing social hierarchies are free to blurt out inconvenient truths or qn things rest of us take for granted. But we can't all be holy fools - that'd be a disaster.

What we exchange for being vulnerable to an occasional lie is huge & costs are trivial in comparison (i.e. we get deceived once in a while).