On 10/21/26

Daily Letter

Inspiration & Quotes × People & Society

And maybe a dozen of types of people

There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.

Aristotle said that some people were only fit to be slaves. I do not contradict him. But I reject slavery because I see no men fit to be masters.

Many such cases

If you find two ants in your kitchen, the best estimate of the total number of ants in your kitchen is not two

Money, Work & Power × People & Society

There is no such thing as passive income:

  • Write a book? Gotta market it.

  • Own a rental property? Gotta manage it.

  • Buy bonds? Inflation just doubled.

The only real passive income that exists seems to be selling the idea of passive income to other people.

Misc

The thing about luck is it has a habit of flipping.

P sad

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So what if emotions are fractal and this so is the ability to deal with them: if you’re bad at grieving someone dying you’re bad at grieving having missed the bus.

Moses was gone for 40 days and they forgot the miracles they witnessed leaving Egypt… humanities attention span has always been fickle