Notes from reading in Fall 2019
- Don’t ever take yourself too seriously.
- Be a true tinkerer and intellectual by practice, not by signaling.
- The best signals come to you after you’re well beyond earning them—those who receive them before ever earning them live in anguish for the rest of their lives.
- Partake fully in a hobby, a lifestyle, loving a girl, a meal. Until your boredom takes over again, you should indulge yourself—that is the true way to live.
- But your satisfaction shouldn’t be at the cost of hurting others—this is something all the greats have trouble with.
- Be so intentional and straightforward and offputting that you are only left with the end goals you wanted.
- If you expect anything transactional, state the terms before conducting your end of the bargain—otherwise, you’re forever roping yourself along and wasting your time.
- A lot of things are distractions if you’re not clear, and adventures if you are—don’t ever shy away from the latter, because carpe diem type stuff.