Principles

• “Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.” - Thomas Carlyle
• Progress consists of the growth of knowledge.
• “A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan next week.” - George S. Patton
• “Brevity is the soul of wit.” - William Shakespeare
• “There is objective truth to be found in [all] fields, while finality or infallibility cannot be found anywhere.” - David Deutsch
• Art and creativity come from constraints.
• “You can do your life’s work in half an hour a day.” - Robert Hass
• There are at least two vital ways for dealing with reality (Master and His Emissary), hence we have two brain hemispheres.
• Story is embodied philosophy.
• Humans do not multi-task.