9-1 Be truthful
5-2 What counts cannot be counted
5-2c2a Prioritize bullshit avoidance over money and prestige. Don’t waste your time.
3-1c1d0 We are overconsuming novelty (and “serendipity”) and under-consuming purpose. The first thing to look at each day should be your purpose and metrics to improve upon, not some random stories.
5-2c2b1a If you want your writing to still be readable on a computer from the 2060s or 2160s, it’s important that your notes can be read on a computer from the 1960s, for your future self
Don’t worry about prestige. If you admire two kinds of work equally, choose the less prestigious one. Because if it’s good, it doesn’t have to make it prestigious.