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My Credo - Guiding Principles

What we do in life, echoes in eternity.

Don't sell anything you wouldn't buy yourself.

Sapere Aude - Dare to be wise, dare to know.

Memento Mori - Remember Death

If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.

Play long-term games with long-term people.

You can’t have pleasure in life without skill.

No random actions, none not based on underlying principles.

Unusual success cannot lie in doing the ordinary.

Profound questions over practical answers.

Truth is found in nuance.

Conventional wisdom, and what works are two different things.

The size of your life is the size of your questions.

Unexamined life, is not worth living.

Skill is nothing without virtue.

The best revenge is NOT to be like that.

A slave who has 3 masters is a free man.

Don't work for anyone you don't respect and admire.

My life works to a degree I keep my commitments.

Sophistication is born out of hunger - artificia docuit fames.

Head towards the light, and only the light.

World is nothing but change. Our life is only perception.

De minimis non curat praetor— do not concern yourself with trifles (small things)

Truth shall set you free.

Without vision you stumble like a drunken sailor.

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The map is not the territory - words are not reality.

Hell on earth would be to meet the man, I could have been.

Wu-Wei - Go with the flow.

Aim high, something that will make a difference, rather than easy to do.

Freedom comes from commitment, not accomplishment.

Make your way through life— no one’s master, no one’s slave.

Optimize for interesting.

An ounce of wisdom is worth a pound of knowledge.

Beware of the man with a hammer who sees nails everywhere.

The opposite of a good idea can be another good idea.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

Seek contradictory perspectives & ideas.

“There’s nothing new under the sun”

There’s nothing more practical than a good theory.

Prescription without diagnosis is malpractice.

“credo (Latin: [ˈkɾeːdoː]; Latin for “I believe”): a guiding belief or principle: CREED”

“The elements move upward and downward, in all directions. The motion of virtue is different – deeper. It moves at a steady pace on a road hard to discern, and always forward.”

– Marcus Aurelius