Art history has witnessed a series of exponential leaps, not just in the production of art but, more significantly, in the reach that each new medium or technological innovation has enabled.
Parables conveying universal truths.
The spectrum of recorded ideas on money and markets.
Classic fiction distilled into one hundred moral lessons to reveal universal truths.
Lessons from enduring books summarized.
Leverage is as much about where you are standing as how much force you are applying.
A great name communicates the most information in the most compressed way.
If you are building something, it is far more useful to focus on the work you are doing to produce the result than the result itself.
The constraint we apply to package our idea determines their reach & resonance. "Make 1 decision to eliminate 1,000 decisions."
Labor is generally a more interchangeable resource than vision.
To help understand this idea, consider the contrast between the two concepts ancient Greeks used to think about time.
It should be relatively simple to identify when we aren't accumulating net new experience, but in practice, it doesn't seem to be.
Language is an incredible tool. It makes it possible for us to externalize what we think and communicate it to others.
"It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price." - Warren Buffett
The extent to which anything keeps working after you stop working is how much time you earn from making it.
To make progress, we must solve harder and harder problems in sequence.
