Words that are progressing to thoughts. All unearned wisdom is my own.
“Relationships are not the sum but the product of two people. Your great vulnerabilities and strengths are not added but multiplied.” — 6/8/2026
“What matters is not what I know, but whether I know what God knows.” — 6/8/2026
“Any time you feel an ache in your back or pain in your fingers, remember that just because you don’t do the work doesn’t mean the work doesn’t get done. It just gets done by someone else.” — 6/8/2026
“People are forcing functions. You should care more about what they want from you than what you want in them. Would you be happy if you became what they wanted?” — 6/6/2026
“In moments of grief, we find ourselves blessed with a special kind of suffering: a pain that’s so powerful that it reminds us that we are, in fact, alive.” — 5/30/2026
“Once you believe that you’ve eliminated all threats to your life, you become your own greatest threat.” — 5/23/2026
“There is no third person. You’re always choosing whose eyes you’re seeing the world through.” — 5/14/2026
“Spanish conquistadors wasted their whole life looking for the
fountain of youth. In the pursuit of everlasting life, they lost the
only one they truly had.
The fountain of youth overflows with the lives lost pursuing it.”
— 5/14/2026
“A man is what he’s looking for.” — 4/14/2026
“Every technology removes a barrier between what is in the heart and what is in this world. We inch closer to seeing what we desire. Do we desire to see what we desire? Do we even desire what we desire?” — 4/9/2026
“A sufficiently detailed question is indistinguishable from understanding.” — 4/5/2026
“The best language for communicating an apology is action.” — 4/2/2026
“The difference between art and engineering isn’t precision. The
difference is the constraints.
Art doesn’t scale. Engineering does.”
— 3/28/2026
“You say you want peace, but you complain that you’re bored. You love
ambient noise. You distract yourself with electronic trinkets.
Your behaviors defy your tongue. You don’t desire peace. You want low
effort pleasure.” — 1/28/2026
“Pity is an interesting feeling because it reveals all the things you take pride in. Self-pity makes no sense because it’s taking pride in things that you don’t have.” — 12/25/2025
“Is this world enough for you?” — 12/23/2025
“Every day your yesterday dies. Your tomorrow must rise and be born again. Stagnation is suicide.” — 12/23/2025
“A circle is a finite compression of the infinite digits of pi.” — 12/23/2025
“We stand in the shadows of our future.” — 12/23/2025
“We’re all desperately trying to crack the mystery of our death. We spend our whole lives asking one question: how are we going to die? Once we find out, we change the question: why?” — 12/23/2025
“Every automation problem is a robotics problem.” — 12/20/2025
“Obesity led to dieting. VR led to IRL. Oversupply creates a demand for scarcity.” — 12/14/2025
“A good teacher will teach you the right answers. An excellent teacher will teach you the right questions.” — 11/8/2025
“It’s hard, but not that smart.” — 10/23/2025
“You say you want peace but what you really want is change.” — 9/14/2025
“Who said that the manifestation of all your desires would look like a
person?
The collection of all your career, romantic, and personal ambitions is
likely to take the form of a chimera, not a human.
The greatest constraint on our imagination for a life partner is that
they have to be a person.” — 8/23/2025
“The best way to make something stand out is by making everything else look the same.” — 8/18/2025
“The weight of other people’s thoughts is heavy. Don’t be Atlas.” — 7/25/2025
“In intelligence, there is no free lunch. IQ points are just the
memories of your ancestors accumulated in genes.
Either you learned it, or your ancestors did.”
— 7/25/2025
“We have always been cannibalizing the value of intelligence by finding better ways of sharing it. First we had libraries, then we had search engines, and now we have even better non-deterministic language databases called language models.” — 7/17/2025
“There’s only one way to build confidence in other people. This happens to be the only way to build confidence in yourself. Keep your promises.” — 7/1/2025
“Do not look to anyone else to save you. You are the strongest of them all.” — 6/23/2025
“When you have too many thoughts, you mistake distraction for burnout.” — 6/19/2025
“Time is never wasted, just lost. We must be resourceful with our past.” — 6/19/2025
“Do you want what you want?” — 6/12/2025
“People are just problem specifications—we’re defined by our issues,
not our solutions.
In some way, we don’t ever “solve” anything—we just introduce new,
more powerful problems to defeat the old ones.
Choose wisely.” — 5/22/2025
“There are no mirrors, only windows.” — 5/13/2025
“What happens when you automate away all low entropy decisions? You’re only left with high entropy decisions—or, just deep uncertainty. This might explain some of the rise in anxiety levels. When there’s no default, there’s no direction.” — 5/13/2025
“People have a tendency to act when they should just observe. People have a tendency to observe when they should just act. People have a tendency to do both when they should do one at a time.” — 4/11/2025
“We spend most of our lives not knowing how we think. It is only when we put pen to paper that we see who we really are. Writing is a mirror for your mind.” — 4/5/2025
“Bullies are great at one on one. They tend to lose in team sports.” — 3/16/2025
“Growth is when you look back into the past and see memories of another person’s life.” — 3/9/2025
“Most folks treat their video game characters better than themselves. Would you have your protagonist sit on a couch and watch Netflix all day?” — 3/8/2025
“Your objectives define your identity. What you want to be becomes who you are.” — 3/6/2025
“One implication of the is/ought distinction is that the world as it is, will never be the world as it should be.” — 2/28/2025
“You don’t learn language. You learn communication.” — 2/13/2025
“The wise seek challenge. Challenge seeks the fool.” — 2/12/2025
“No matter which direction we go, we’ll have to walk on our own two feet.” — 2/4/2025
“We thought that getting rid of meritocracy would produce equality — instead what we got was a gerontocracy.” — 1/26/2025
“If you take nothing for granted, this world is fair.
If you take everything for granted, this world is fair.
If you take something for granted, this world is unfair.
Whatever you do, don’t take something for granted.”
— 1/17/2025
“Your bones will grind to dust. All that will be left is what you once stood for.” — 1/16/2025
“Consider bouldering. You have rocks serving as objects to hoist your body. Life is spiritual bouldering. You have physical artifacts serving as objects for your spiritual struggles. The beauty of this analogy is that you can follow it all the way into the mountain. What are the rocks connected to? Well, more rocks.” — 1/16/2025
“Confront your fears. You might lose, but at least you won’t lose to yourself.” — 1/14/2025
“We don’t have nearly enough conversations to only learn from the interesting ones.” — 1/14/2025
“Life offers us a privilege: to choose your fear. Fear God or fear this world.” — 1/11/2025
“Disposition emerges from discipline.” — 1/11/2025
“Stepping into the light reveals your imperfections.” — 1/11/2025
“You can’t be yourself when you’re thinking about yourself.” — 1/11/2025
“Everyone starts walking together on the coast. Some lock arms and charge into the ocean together. Others let go and walk in by themselves. With time, the currents will wash us all into uncharted water—leaving us to wander alone.” — 1/10/2025
“Whichever direction is forward for you, may you go boldly.” — 1/10/2025
“People give advice that’s top of mind. Advice that’s top of mind is usually advice they’re giving themselves.” — 1/10/2025
“Truth takes time, sometimes longer than your lifetime.” — 1/9/2025
“You either believe in God or have a God complex.” — 1/9/2025
“Buddhists mistake the noble path for the noble lie.” — 1/9/2025
“The better you are, the weirder your problems.” — 1/8/2025
“You think you’ve built a castle but you’ve built a prison.” — 12/28/2024
“Moments have to find the right time.” — 12/28/2024
“The curse of having a good memory is that you have trouble moving on.” — 12/28/2024
“Consider Michelangelo’s Pieta.
Zoom into any small corner — you’ll find that a man had chipped away
at a weird angle in what was once a perfect prism of marble. Zoom out,
and you’ll see that the combination of these weird cuts produces one
of the most timeless sculptures of humanity.
Many imperfections create perfection.”
— 12/1/2024
“Money matters more when you have less.” — 11/29/2024
“We’re told that if you ‘dream hard enough’ that ‘anything is possible’. Of course anything is possible because it’s just your dream.” — 11/29/2024
“Great dreams are those tempered by reality.” — 11/29/2024
“You’re putting words to feelings and mistaking them for thoughts.” — 11/26/2024
“The only person who desires to be the ‘real you’ is the ‘fake you’.” — 11/26/2024
“You are what’s obvious to you.” — 11/26/2024
“Achievement is a function of will and power. He who has everything has everything to lose. He who has nothing has nothing to use.” — 9/18/2024
“Everything that is, was, or will ever be true — already is. We’re just finding the symbols to represent them.” — 3/2024
“Success is as much a function of what you’re good at as it is what you’re bad at.” — ~2023