Blog — Quotes

I again saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift and the battle is not to the warriors, and neither is bread to the wise nor wealth to the discerning, nor favor to the skillful; for time and chance overtake them all.

There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

For in much wisdom is much grief,
And he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.

When the ending is unknown, and the distance is unknown, that’s when you know who the fuck you are.

You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can't control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone.

Remember: you shouldn't be surprised that a fig tree produces figs, nor the world what it produces. A good doctor isn't surprised when his patients have fevers, or a helmsman when the wind blows against him.

I was once foolish enough to believe knowledge would clarify, but some things are so gauzed behind layers of syntax and semantics, behind days and hours, names forgotten, salvaged and shed, that simply knowing the wound exists does nothing to reveal it.

Pathfinding is at the core of creating with significance, and finding the path is largely the work of finding non-paths until the path is evident.
That doesn’t mean that we’re sloppy. In fact, it’s precisely the opposite.
There’s a rigor to this exploration, a nonrandom way to explore the possible.

And that doesn’t mean we ship junk. We can make mistakes together, in private often, testing and measuring and improving.

And then we can ship the work. Work we’re proud of. Deliver it to people who care and begin again.

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

The alternative is to bring actual wonder to the conversation, to be with a person in their story and narrative. Wonder is the open-ended version of curiosity, without seeking an explanation to solve the problem.