January 15, 2024

“That sounds funny, making friends among the “eminent dead,” but if you go through life making friends with the eminent dead who had the right ideas, I think it will work better for you in life and work better in education. It’s way better than just giving the basic concepts.”

9:05 AM

“Franklin used his self-made wealth to achieve financial independence so he could concentrate on societal improvement. Charlie admires that trait in his mentor and strives to emulate Franklin.”

9:06 AM

“Take a simple, basic idea and 2) take it very seriously”

9:07 AM

“You’ve got to hang experience on a latticework of models in your head.”

9:08 AM

“the first rule is that you can’t really know anything if you just remember isolated facts and try and bang ’em back”

9:08 AM

“Without numerical fluency, in the part of life most of us inhabit, you are like a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest.”

9:09 AM

“In a long career, I have assimilated various ultrasimple general notions that I find helpful in solving problems.”

9:10 AM

“scientific reality is often revealed only by math as if math was the language of God”

9:10 AM

“The third helpful notion is that it is not enough to think problems through forward. You must also think in reverse, much like the rustic who wanted to know where he was going to die so that he’d never go there.”

9:10 AM

“The fourth helpful notion is that the best and most practical wisdom is elementary academic wisdom”

9:10 AM

“What Carson said was that he couldn’t tell the graduating class how to be happy, but he could tell them from personal experience how to guarantee misery”

9:46 AM