Do what you love for a living, and learn to hate it.
Dec 142018
Dec 132018
Knaves suffer fools gladly.
Dec 122018
What matters is not the size of the lie but its endless repetition: we imagine a big lie is easier to swallow because there is no point in wasting the propaganda apparatus on a small one.
Dec 112018
If you are stupid, you think your political opponents are evil, and if you are evil, you think they are stupid.
Dec 102018
The best recipient for your advice, your former self, is unfortunately in no position to take it.
Dec 072018
Written history is mostly war, and the surest way to be remembered is to start one.
Dec 062018
If only I could have school over again, to leave sooner and do worse.
Dec 052018
Commiseration, n. The feeling of relief that there are some problems you don’t have.
Dec 042018
It’s good luck to attribute one’s success to good luck.
Dec 032018
Whiggism implies boundless optimism about the future, and, less often noted, boundless contempt for the past.