Book of heuristics

  • All expression is propaganda.
  • Markets are efficient because markets are inefficient.
  • Having haters doesn't guarantee you are gonna make it. Not having haters guarantees not gonna make it.
  • Quality trumps quantity. Quantity precedes quality.
  • Left is what is not right.
  • Minimum wages is anti-poor.
  • Economy trumps everything.
  • Boredom is a blessing.
  • Write for one or write for none. Build for one or build for none.
  • You can find a study to prove anything. You can find a study to disprove the same thing.
  • Coping is inevitable. Choose your copes.
  • He who sees all is as if he sees nothing. He who knows all is as if he knows nothing. He who gets all is as if he gets nothing.
  • The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
  • Minimalism is a cope.
  • All astrological inference is a tautology.
  • Goals, habits, and rituals are overrated. Knowing yourself is underrated.
  • Essays, books, constitution, code. Writing is the highest form of leverage known to man.
  • Write.
  • When in doubt, bet on the web.
  • In pursuit of utopia, dystopia is inevitable.
  • If you need a belt to lift it, you better not do it.
  • If you can't sit on an unergonomic chair for hours, you shouldn't sit in an ergonomic chair for hours.
  • Accessible, sustainable, and inclusive design killed aesthetics.
  • You can only be mad at someone if you are mad at yourself.
  • There are two ways to be passionate about work. As a cope or as a delusion. Any attempt any other way will fail.
  • You only own what you can afford to waste. Everything else owns you.
  • Building a company's culture is all about minimizing the Principal-Agent conflict. Everything else is a cop-out.
  • Startups die when they are run by data and not by founding members.
  • Data-driven decisions help people with the least skin in the game justify their relevance.
  • Data helps make a bad decision with a 95% confidence interval of it being correct.
  • While sizing up, you get sized up.
  • If a CV is longer than one page, you can't trust that candidate. Same for restaurant menus.
  • Learn that everything is grey. Act as if black and white.
  • If you want to have the last laugh, you will never laugh.
  • Complex design is a cover for lousy craftsmanship. Minimalism is trying too hard to not to appear lousy. Simplicity is the key.
  • True passion, true love or true calling is a coping mechanism in broken individuals. Everything in moderation. Moderation in moderation.
  • A lot of people who buy courses are the ones who procrastinate a lot. Learning for the sake of learning is a form of procrastination.
  • Be a good writer. You will become a good human being.
  • When in doubt take a decision that makes a better story.
  • All indecision stems from fear.
  • 80% of emotional intelligence is knowing yourself.
  • Fear often shows up as a perfectionist.
  • Life is too short and too long at the same time.
  • All advice is bad advice. So is this one.
  • When two things are close but you have to pick one, flip a coin. Decisiveness goes a long way.
  • Personal magnetism is optimism and confidence.
  • Think big. If you are used to thinking big, think small.
  • People hate illogical beings and they absolutely abhor logical ones.