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University is actually not a business. It's like a church is not a business

Men who are men don't need money, they need function

Economic inequality drives crime

Don't let the inequality in your neighborhood get out of hand because the crime rate will skyrocket

In order for society to progress you have to allow the individual to compete in a relatively untrammeled space so that they can innovate

Motivation driven by necessity

One of the advantages of zero is that you're driven by brute necessity and that can really be motivating. That's I think why the children of first generation immigrants often do so well. They're driven by necessity

If you don't have any money, it's really hard to get some. Once you have some, it's not so hard to get some more

Smart people who work hard are disproportionately likely to succeed

Biggest predictors of success

We know what predicts success - IQ and conscientiousness are the biggest predictors of success

If you let a monetary system run, all the money ends up in the hands of a very small number of people

If you put more effort and more time and focus into your work whatever it would be whether it's a podcast or your YouTube videos or whatever if people enjoy it they gravitate towards it and then over time it exponentially increases the amount of people that are exposed to it

When one good thing happens to you it makes you a little more powerful and attractive and so that fractionally increases the possibility that another good thing will happen to you

To those who have everything more will be given and from those who have nothing everything will be taken

If you took a hundred classical composers ten of them produce half the music that's played. And then if you take the ten composers and you take a thousand of their songs, thirty of those songs which is the square root of a thousand roughly speaking are played fifty percent of the time

If you have ten thousand people, a hundred of them have half the money

The square root of the number of people under consideration have half of whatever it is that's under consideration

Post modernism is a dead end from the perspective of applicable wisdom. It leaves you bereft and nihilistic. And that's not good because people can't exist without a purpose

People can't exist without a purpose

The landscape of interpretation is almost infinite but the landscape of applicable functional interpretation is unbelievably constrained and I think that constraint system is what we regard as ethics

Truth and objective truth

The idea of truth is much older than the idea of objective truth. The original notion of truth wasn't objective true. When Christ said - I am the truth and the way - the truth he was talking about wasn't an objective truth

The point of maximum proper being is right at the center of the border between chaos and order

It's extremely useful to represent the phenomenology of your experience as a domain of chaos and order. That works for every single environment for every person

Your moral duty is to realize the archetype in the confines of your own life

"Let's just destroy the past" - No! That would be like saying well you don't need a body anymore, because your body is the collected wisdom of the evolutionary process across three and a half billion years

Get the hell out of where you are safe into what you don't know. You are going to find the catastrophes of life but if you keep yourself morally oriented and you make the right sacrifices then you can transcend the catastrophe of being and prevail