“It’s peculiar that this high IQ nerds in China and India love me and in my own country people think I’m a pompous old bastard” “Nobody thinks the way I do. I feel lonely” Charlie Munger, a conversation with John Collison, 2023 Scrivi il tuo obituary, il tuo necrologio da giovane e vivi accordingly,…
“We should live well but not in luxury” Seneca, “Moral letters” What does truly make you happy? Seneca and the stoics thought that happiness resides easily in small things. Incidentally Benjamin Franklin many centuries later pointed out that more than in the big strikes of luck, that also may happen, happiness can be found in…
I read somewhere that the word “self-evident” in the “Declaration of Independence” was a Ben Franklin’s substitution for a more articulated and complex number of words by Thomas Jefferson regarding Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. If you take a look at the manuscript of the Declaration you’ll find this correction hand-written above. Albeit…