flâneur

Vinh Luu

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on the atlas — 5

highlights — 7

  • great idea that you’re only thinking independently if your views on certain topics can’t be predicted from your views on other topics. Many views can be predicted, because true independent thinking is so rare. Tell me your views on immigration and I can probably guess your views on abortion. Tell me who you voted for president and I can probably guess whether you think today’s economy is strong or weak.
    Intelligent vs. Smart · Collab Fund
  • poet Rudyard Kipling writes, “If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings, nor lose the common touch,”
    Intelligent vs. Smart · Collab Fund
  • My response is that no matter what we’re talking about, Tom has a perfect analogy from something totally unrelated. If we’re talking about insurance reserves, Tom will say something like, “You know, this reminds me of that scene from the Sound of Music …”
    Intelligent vs. Smart · Collab Fund
  • It takes smarts to accept that for most problems in the world, the “right” answer is the one that best promotes your individual wellbeing and fits your experience of how the world works. And since everyone has different needs and experiences, the only way to move forward and get things done is to tolerate and work with some views even when you disagree with them.
    Intelligent vs. Smart · Collab Fund
  • If there is any one secret of success it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from their angle as well as your own
    Intelligent vs. Smart · Collab Fund
  • Logic is an invention of man and may be ignored by the universe.
    Intelligent vs. Smart · Collab Fund
  • What he’s really done is he’s created this immense vertical filing cabinet in his brain of layers and layers and layers of files of information that he can draw back on now for more than 70 years worth of data.
    Curius / Onboarding