• The trouble isn’t knowing the truth, it’s learning how to deliver it with decency and courage.
  • More informed does not mean better educated.
  • Beware of teachers who complicate; genius is in simplicity.
  • People tend not to skew towards the truth, but to what’s incentivized.
  • Today, nearly all censorship is self-censorship.
  • Trust your own experience.
  • Pain is often the best, and the only, teacher.
  • Beware of the smartest person in an echoed, small group.
  • Notice how one's views on climate change map perfectly onto those about gun ownership?  Tribalism at work.
  • People's views are usually those of the smartest, most articulate person they know or watch.
  • Once you learn it, you see that the self serving bias is everywhere.
  • Learning obtained but not used or documented is wasted.
  • Learn the major cognitive biases.
  • Don’t equate eloquence with wisdom.
  • Focus on the basics - let them sink in.