• Elaboration annoys the clever without satisfying the dim. 2 Hours
• When a woman tells a man she's married, she means she doesn't want to sleep with him; when a man tells a woman, he means he's heterosexual. 8 Hours
• Morality is our way of not taking everything into account. 14 Hours
• To be happy, avoid whatever makes you unhappy: to sculpt a lion, carve away whatever doesn't look like a lion. 1 Day
• The revolutionary treats the oppressed as the defense lawyer treats the client: under no circumstances are they to speak for themselves. 1 Day
• Umbrellas are deeply antisocial. 1 Day
• @afoolswisdom It took me a long time to learn to stop finishing books. Even now I finish too many. 2 Days
• @afoolswisdom Agreed. Or afterwards either. But we can improve some in this regard, even beforehand. 2 Days
• Education has never solved a social problem, but it has created a few. 2 Days
• @afoolswisdom Oh those are hopeless. There is no one right order any more than there is one set of right books. Only our own right order. 3 Days
• We would all be incomparably better-educated if we had read the same books, but in the right order. 3 Days
• @TamarHaspel Blog post on catch-and-release fishing: harmless recreational activity, or inexcusable Internet trolling? 3 Days
• @adamgurri @nntaleb I should have credited Nassim. This is about as briefly as I can summarize his philosophy. 3 Days
• Try to be not smarter but less stupid, not at all the same thing. 3 Days
• @GetzelR Thanks. I wish it were true that I had just made a new mistake, but it just turned out be an old one. 3 Days
• To make a new mistake is no small thing. 3 Days
• @adamgurri I didn't, but it's nice to plagiarize someone inadvertently for a change. 4 Days
• If you were immortal, how would you know? 4 Days
• College is a sorting algorithm, and feeding more data into a sorting algorithm produces, at best, more accurate sorting. 4 Days
• @edfrenkel Exorbitant. But I would be exuberant if I could charge them. 5 Days
• People who say they feel old mean that circumstances have momentarily forced them to stop pretending that they are young. 5 Days
• @tipsfromkatee You have taken away Santa's elves with one hand, and restored them with the other. 5 Days
• Episteme married Techne and they lived happily ever after. 5 Days
• When a majority rejects democracy, then in what does democracy consist? 7 Days
• Every truth is someone's cliché. 7 Days

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