Many will line up to praise evil If they think it has the advantage.

Appreciating the absurd makes life easier to take.

When major events happen, X is the most compelling data stream on earth.

When people want to figure out what’s going on in real time, this is the platform everyone goes to. Even the haters end up using it.

No one wants censorship of the information THEY need to find.

They have a group chat and say “I don’t read.”

People read more than ever, but most of it is worthless ephemera.

Honest speech is less an attempt to persuade than an attempt to discover.

If you describe generic human failings, people assume you’re talking about their political enemies.

You can learn to love headwinds.

Adversity makes men iron.

Our intimates know our bad qualities better than we think, and our good qualities too.

A desire to look rich can keep the poor from reaching the middle.

If you take truth badly, people will learn to lie to you.

People go on vacation to escape their work schedule and then schedule their vacation more intensely than their work.

Anxieties multiply when we think our wants are needs.

Hatred slow boils the hater.

Bruises that have healed we call experience.

People who are deeply interested in a subject exhaust all obvious areas of inquiry and keep going, finding increasingly obscure sources of knowledge.

They end up knowing a lot more than those who only do the assigned reading.

Whatever you are doing, do it well.

Why? Because it is what you are doing.

That is reason enough.

What you do today is the reality of your life as it really is.

So do it well.

If something on your phone upsets you, remind yourself that you were upset by a metal object and put it away.

The most criticized people of our time don’t have to spend money on marketing.

Their haters keep them top of mind every day.

You can be considerate of someone’s emotional state while not allowing it to become contagious.

Sometimes the really stupid ideas get a lot further than the slightly stupid ideas.

Reasonable people find it demeaning to engage with the really stupid ideas and avoid it until they have no choice.