“A man is obliged to teach his son a trade, and whoever does not teach his son a trade teaches him to become a robber.” ~ Tosefta Kiddushin, 1:2

Experience is something we get shortly after we needed it — Pat McNamara

You wanna kick asses. First ass you gotta kick is your own. — Pat McNamara

Take care of the little rings and the big things will take care of themselves

I had to make you uncomfortable. Otherwise you would have never moved. — universe

Stress is something wanting to be in two places at the same time. h/t @naval

There are many paradoxes that emerge from plurality election systems. The as observed in Israel and Germany. The biggest being that coalitions form and the ability of the constituents to remove unwanted outcomes/positions is even harder(!) than 2-party systems. h/t David Deutsch

We should pursue the removal of bad governments and experiments. There is no best government across time horizons. Favor in/out over plurality so that lessons can be learned. Does a compromise have a hypothesis? h/t David Deutsch

You can understand how a balloon inflates without modeling how every single particle bounces around. We can understand the whole but not the parts. This is called emergent understanding — h/t David Deutsch

As human beings we are the “great explainer” species. This is our contribution — h/t David Deutsch