Brain Recalibration

You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.

Make art. Make rent. Help others do the same.

The world is a raft sailing through space with, potentially, plenty of provisions for everybody; the idea that we must all cooperate and see to it that everyone does his fair share of the work and gets his fair share of the provisions seems so blatantly obvious that one would say that no one could possibly fail to accept it unless he had some corrupt motive for clinging to the present system.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.

Advertisement is the rich asking for more money.

Laziness, Impatience, Hubris

Creativity Begins at the Edge

Five Why’s

Features are Faults

Competition is for Losers

Personal Monopoly

Table Selection

Hock Principle

Simple clear purpose and principles give rise to complex and intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple and stupid behavior.

Wu Wei

Action without acting

Oversimplify

Make it so easy to do the right thing that the wrong thing is never even considered

Layered Stimulus Response Training

1. Visualize something from memory describing it in as much detail as possible
2. Reflect on the quality and completeness of the image
3. Visualize the same thing again attempting to improve whatever was lacking in the previous step

Strategery is for the delta-vee poors

Velocity is more significant than plotting

Don’t Waste the Good Days

Fail Every Day

Don’t End the Week with Nothing

"Switch from team “I will one day write something good” to team “I have no choice but to write a piece of shit” and then take off your “bad writer” hat and replace it with a “petty critic” hat and go to town on that poor hack’s draft and that’s your second draft."

Many problems cannot be solved, simply changed into other problems

80/20

When you exceed their expectations, you tell them to expect the exceptional.