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Hack away the unessential

“It is not daily increase but daily decrease, hack away the unessential.” Bruce Lee...

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Museum, not a warehouse

(Excerpt from Rework by Jason Fried) You don’t make a great museum by putting all the art in the world into a single room. That’s a warehouse. What makes a museum great is the stuff that’s not on the...

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Systems learn by removing parts, via negativa.

(Excerpt from Skin in the Game by Nassim Taleb) Many bad pilots, as we mentioned, are currently in the bottom of the Atlantic, many dangerous bad drivers are in the local quiet cemetery with nice walkways bordered by...

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Warren Buffett’s 5/25 Strategy

(Excerpt from MayoOshin.com)  A few years ago, before an airplane takeoff, Warren Buffett walked up to the pilot of his private jet, Mike Flint and jokingly said to him, “The fact that you’re still working for me,...

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Don’t be stupid

“It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent. There must be some wisdom in the folk saying, ‘It’s the...

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Michelangelo removed everything that was not David

(Excerpt from The Good Men Project) In 1501, Michelangelo, the greatest artist that ever lived, accepted a commission to carve a marble sculpture of the biblical David to be placed high atop a buttress on the...

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