Pragmatism: Focus on solving today’s problems, not yesterday’s debates
Pragmatism is less about settling past disputes and more about solving the problems at hand. #ReadingNotes#
House Rules: Why No One Actually Wins
You set this up. From the start, you planned every angle—how to get in, how to get out, who’d back you up, the whole timeline.
When You Care Too Much About What Others Think, You Lose Control
If you care too much about what others think of you, or whether you come across as successful or a failure in their eyes, life will be incredibly exhausting. Because you've handed over control. #ReadingNotes#
No One Goes Easy on You Just Because You’re a Rookie
No one will show leniency just because you're a beginner #ReadingNotes#
When You’re Stuck in Your Own Little World, Everything Feels Unique — Until You See How Universal It All Is
When you live in a small bubble, it’s easy to feel like your struggles are uniquely hard, bitter, or even heroic. But when you get the chance to see into other people’s lives, you realize how incredibly diverse the world is. You’re just one real presence among the masses. It’s like going to the doctor: every patient feels their illness is one of a kind, but to the doctor, there’s really no difference. The uniqueness and universality of life coexist in this very real way. #readingnotes#
Love is about helping others thrive, not forcing them.
Achieving success for others starts with them wanting it—when they ask and you deliver, that’s what it means to empower someone.
Making money isn’t the first priority; the first priority is always what to do with the money once I have it.
Profitability is hard. Wanting to beat the house, that’s tough. But even harder than that? Making a profit and actually staying out of jail for it.
Scarcity and the rules of competition
Whenever something is a private good—meaning one person’s use of it excludes simultaneous use by others, and its utiliz…