“If falsehood, like truth, had only one face, we would be in better shape. For we would take as certain the opposite of what the liar said. But the reverse of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and a limitless field.” – Montaigne
“You can’t just keep doing what works one time, everything around you is changing. To succeed, stay out in front of change.” – Sam Walton
“Einmal ist keinmal, says Tomas to himself. What happens but once, says the German adage, might as well not have happened at all. If we have only one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all.” – Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Beingrevisit
Related:
- 1-1a5b4.4 Real-time calibration (i.e., recalibration) lets you adapt to the changing landscape
- Don’t be the guy who uses a hammer as his only tool and approach every complex problem as if it was a nail
- 2-1a1a4b Compounding is usually too slow to notice, making it easier to discount both how much progress and catastrophe are achievable
- 5-1a Be nice
- 5-2b0 You are what you do repeatedly
- 5-2c1 You perceive yourself by what you do repeatedly, just as you judge others by their routine behaviors.
- 6-3b2d1 Don’t reinvent the wheel. Copy and paste. Save keystrokes.
- 7-1a2a1 絶対に勝てるところから勝っていく
- 2-1a0c1d1 Focus on the few variables (e.g., Buffett with his focus on the company’s fundamental)
- 9-1a1 People who converge upon the truth converge with each otherdevelop
- 9-1b You can’t really transfer your knowledge to others, because each knowledge has to be created individually
- 10-2g3d1 Humans do stupid things because we can guess and create meanings. Our ability comes with a great cost of potentially doing very (infinitely) stupid things.
- 13-1a3.0a Always go for the best—work on the best project, work in the best industry, work with the best people
- RUL3 - Love bad news. Always question to falsify your idea and theory. Invalidate ASAP. How fast you can invalidate matters as much as how fast you can build them. Rule out bad explanations.
Contradictory?revisit