- Poor Charlie’s Almanack ➶
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Lively website version of the book about the wit and wisdom of Charles T. Munger.
I’d set the text ragged right instead of justified, make it easy to share a link to each paragraph in the text, and engineer the publishing system so the site is viewable without JavaScript.
Other than that, the most beautifully-designed website I’ve seen in 2023.
Focus:
Keep things simple and remember what you set out to do.- Remember that reputation and integrity are your most valuable assets—and can be lost in a heartbeat.
- Guard against the effects of hubris and boredom.
- Don’t overlook the obvious by drowning in minutiae.
- Be careful to exclude unneeded information or slop: “A small leak can sink a great ship.”
- Face your big troubles, don’t sweep them under the rug.
I wish Munger had worked less on beverages that are harmful to humans by preying on their basic instincts. And as a self-critical thinker, I think he would have agreed:
This will happen because the Darwinian approach, with its habitual objectivity taken on as a sort of hair shirt, is a mighty approach indeed. No less a figure than Einstein said that one of the four causes of his achievement was self-criticism, ranking right up there alongside curiosity, concentration, and perseverance.
And, to further appreciate the power of self-criticism, consider where lies the grave of that very “ungifted” undergraduate, Charles Darwin. It is in Westminster Abbey, right next to the headstone of Isaac Newton, perhaps the most gifted student who ever lived, honored on that headstone in eight Latin words constituting the most eloquent praise in all graveyard print: “Hic depositum est, quod mortale fuit Isaaci Newtoni”—“Here lies that which was mortal of Isaac Newton.”
A civilization that so places a dead Darwin will eventually develop and integrate psychology in a proper and practical fashion that greatly increases skills of all sorts. But all of us who have dollops of power and see the light should help the process along. There is a lot at stake. If, in many high places, a universal product as successful as Coca-Cola is not properly understood and explained, it can’t bode well for our competency in dealing with much else that is important.
and more on things that are helpful to all humans, and that he and Thomas Picketty would have had some debates.
Maybe I’ll ask an A.I. to simulate the two talking about an universal basic income.
Via John Gruber.
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