Lessons on Life

 Do not ascribe malevolence to that which is explicable by self interest.

Lessons On Life

History is replete with tales of hubris.

The Tower of Babel--God punishes humankind for trying to reach him.

Icarus--The Greek myth teaches not to be too arrogant or greedy.

The Gulag Archipelago: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn teaches us how a large, benevolent ideology can create the ultimate evil of human history.

Do not try to fix the world according to your ideology. Fix yourself. That's hard enough. And if we all fix ourselves, the world will be improved.

Lessons on Life

 Unrequested advice...is criticism.

If you want to help, ask first if help is wanted.

Lessons on Life

Faith is not defined as "Belief without proof or evidence".

Faith is the belief in that which CANNOT be proven.

Lessons on Life

Nothing is created by humankind. We discover, combine, dissect, and reorder, but we do not create.

Science tells us that matter can neither be created nor destroyed--The Law of Conservation of Mass.

Therefore, anything that is was created. 

Whoever created matter it is The Creator.

Lessons on Life

Imagination is merely a portal to a distal reality. 

Lessons on Life

Be careful of businessmen with legal backgrounds. They see the world in terms of leverage, paying no consideration to what's right.

Lessons on Life

The nature of competition is that one side's advance is the other side's disappointment.

When competing, figure out what your opponents want, and disappoint them. 

Lessons on Life

Those that want to destroy existing hierarchies in favor of flattening ignore that the world they envision is at the top of the visions hierarchy.

Lessons on Life & Magic

 Clarke's Third Law: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"

Lessons on Life

 Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Lessons on Life

 Memes do not have to be true. They have to be fit.

Lessons on Life

 A human being is a judgment machine, assessing at all times whether a thing is true or false. Whether you agree with that statement or not...proves the point.

Lessons on Life

Everyone thinks they are right in the present moment. Even when we acknowledge we were wrong, we're right about that.