Quips and Quotes
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Quips and Quotes
The problems of failure are hard. The problems of success can be harder, because nobody warns you about them.
jamesclear.com • “Make Good Art” by Neil Gaiman
This is one of the many reasons why I find the current conversation about so-called generative AI so immensely frustrating: there’s all this hype about making everything easier and faster, about how we can eliminate all the work involved in the making of words and images. But no one arguing for this seems to have asked what’s left when the work is ... See more
Mandy Brown • Coming Home
Three Men Make a Tiger: People will believe anything if enough people tell them it’s true. It comes from a Chinese proverb that if one person tells you there’s a tiger roaming around your neighborhood, you can assume they’re lying. If two people tell you, you begin to wonder. If three say it’s true, you’re convinced there’s a tiger in your neighbor... See more
Morgan Housel • 100 Little Ideas
This catastrophe perfectly encapsulates the French psychoanalyst Octave Mannoni’s formulation of Verleugnung (disavowal): ‘I know very well, but nevertheless’,
Rafael Holmberg • How to Misunderstand the Climate Crisis
“Coincidence and intention are two sides of a tapestry, my lord. You may find one more agreeable to look at, but you cannot say one is true and the other is false.”
Ted Chiang • Exhalation: Stories
Berkson’s Paradox : Strong correlations can fall apart when combined with a larger population. Among hospital patients, motorcycle crash victims wearing helmets are more likely to be seriously injured than those not wearing helmets. But that’s because most crash victims saved by helmets did not need to become hospital patients, and those without h
... See moreMorgan Housel • 100 Little Ideas
Non-Ergodic : When group probabilities don’t apply to singular events. If 100 people play Russian Roulette once, the odds of dying might be, say, 10%. But if one person plays Russian Roulette 100 times, the odds are dying are practically 100%.
Morgan Housel • 100 Little Ideas
There’s a great line in Paul Lynch’s Booker Prize-winning novel Prophet Song: “The end of the world is a local event.”