Daily Letter

People & Society × Inspiration & Quotes

On a quest against nostalgia

The saddest realization I’ve ever had is realizing for some people childhood was really the happiest time of their life for reasons beyond their control and their attachment to reminders like this is their only reminder of better times

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I have high ingroup favoritism for people with low ingroup favoritism

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Old Chinese story

Two peasants were tilling the fields outside the Imperial Palace, one asks the other "If the Emperor is the richest man in the world, what do you think his life is like?"

The second peasant thought deeply, leaned on his hoe and replied "The Emperor must be so rich his hoe is made of gold and he plows his field on the softest cushion made from fine silk."

People & Society × Science, Nature & The Future

The constant fear-mongering about the end of the world, pandemics, climate change, and now linear algebra is deeply neurotic and unhealthy, people need to stop falling for this hijacking of your mind in order for people to consolidate power

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It is human nature that repeats itself, not history. We often learn more about the past from the present, in fact, than the reverse

Inspiration & Quotes

Don't plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me-choke those little bad days. Choke 'em down to nothing. They're your days. Choke 'em!

Misc

Sweep all your problems under the same bottleneck and then attack it ferociously.

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It’s easier to start a war than end one

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The role of parenting is to arm the children with confidence.