Axioms
Musical works I return to
- Frederic Chopin - Concerto No. 1 in E-Minor, Op.11
- Frederic Chopin - Ballade No.4 in F-Minor, Op.52
- Sergei Rachmaninoff - Concerto No.2 in E-Minor, Op.18
- Franz Liszt - Rigoletto Paraphrase S.434
Lemmas
What I've come to believe
- Every (calculated and intentional) bet I make in my youth has a convex payoff. Being downside capped makes any leap a means for upside, so really, not taking the leap would be the mistake!
- Early mistakes hard-code edge cases into your priors, so lessons compound...why dwell when you can just DO better?
- You inevitably begin to emulate the few people you spend the most time with. Choose them deliberately and wisely!
- Being driven by mimetic desires puts you on the road to complacency, whereas pursuing intrinsic goals and desires allows for fulfillment to accrue over time. I aspire to live by the latter.
- Society today is strangely averse to recognizing privilege, weakness, and other unflattering inputs, but it's only benefical to (internally) acknowledge them before baking false assumptions into the next pursuit.
- The West, as it was built (free markets, rule of law, earned merit), embodies an incredibly high-functioning civilizational stack, and is one of the few forgiving systems where (above) convex payoff is possible and available
Corollaries to come :)
Deriving (said corollaries) by way of living...eudaimonia much?
