The system does not characterize an error, but a reaction to an error. And the way you react to problems, to external irritants, is exactly what characterizes you as a system of making decisions. - Pavel Zhovner, FlipperZero creator

Shirky Principle Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.

A man's grasp should be greater than his reach.

You can't reinvent the wheel. We live in a world of refinement, not invention

All success is born out of arrogance. To be happy in whatever you do, you can't allow individuals to bully or dictate to you. This is what I do. If you like it, you like it; if you don't, you don't.

You're not really rich unless you can afford a legion

Elon on Putin being richer than him

Having three Michelin stars doesn't mean you are a good cook; it means that you understand the system.

Perverse Incentives

The cobra effect is the most direct kind of perverse incentive, typically because the incentive unintentionally rewards people for making the issue worse.

The British government, concerned about the number of venomous cobras in Delhi, offered a bounty for every dead cobra. Initially, this was a successful strategy; large numbers of snakes were killed for the reward. Eventually, however, enterprising people began to breed cobras for the income. When the government became aware of this, the reward program was scrapped. When cobra breeders set their now-worthless snakes free, the wild cobra population further increased.

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Brave New World

Social critic Neil Postman contrasted the worlds of Nineteen Eighty-Four and Brave New World in the foreword of his 1985 book Amusing Ourselves to Death. He writes:

What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egotism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny "failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions." In 1984, Orwell added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that our fear will ruin us. Huxley feared that our desire will ruin us.

(source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World#Fordism_and_society)

Ferrero uses 25 percent of the global supply of hazelnuts

You are confusing your privilege with competence

- I don't want like that ever again, Tom. Not when they don't even want to do it, except for the money - Everything is for the money, Finn - Yeah I know. But she said, be a man - And were you a man? - Yeah.. But then I apologised to her, because she just looked so tired. - Sit down Finn. Now listen to me Finn, she was right. You need to be a fucking man. People get tired. Working in a fucking factory gets you tired. I don't go around apologising, do I? - No - There's an empty space here to be filled. You understand? - Yeah - So, be a fucking man

Peaky blinders S04E03

In this terrifying world, all we have is the connections we make.

You are always one decision away from a completely different life.

- They [robots] are taking over, in 50 years we are going to be completely unnecessary - We always were. None of this had to happen.

I went up to Woodstock and just read, and read, and read, and read, for five years. No job, no money. I learned then that you don’t need money to live if you’re a young man who didn’t get himself involved sooner than he should have, before he had the ability to support what this involvement might be.

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