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Key Learnings 2022
Yoann Lopez

2.
• These are quotes from books/articles/podcasts / etc. I read
or listened to in 2022
• Sometimes I forgot the author, unfortunately. 😞
• I aim to read them from time to time to “absorb” their
wisdom.

3.
Man suffers onlv because he takes
seriously what the gods made for
fun.
- Alan Watts

4.
The future is already here.
It’s just not evenly
distributed yet.
- William Gibson

5.
Fear is a natural reaction to
moving closer to the truth.
- Pema Chodron

6.
It is far easier to
fi
gure out if
something is fragile than to
predict the occurrence of an
event that may harm it.
– Nassim Taleb

7.
Survival is the ultimate
performance measure.
– Vicki TenHaken

8.
It is dif
fi
cult to remove by
logic an idea not placed there
by logic in the
fi
rst place.
– Gordon Livingston

9.
The best arguments in the
world won’t change a single
person’s mind. The only thing
that can do that is a good story.
- Richard Powers

10.
All behavior makes sense
with enough information.
– Unknown.

11.
Psychology is a theory of human
behavior. Philosophy is an ideal
of human behavior. History is a
record of human behavior.
– Will Durant

12.
If something looks irrational –
and has been so for a long
time – odds are you have a
wrong de
fi
nition of rationality.
– Taleb

13.
If you want these crazy ideas
and these crazy stages, this
crazy music, and this crazy way
of thinking, there’s a chance it
might come from a crazy person.
- Kanye West

14.
I learned early that people
will admire your work more
if they are not jealous of
you.
– Benjamin Franklin

15.
History as usually written is
quite different from history as
usually lived. The historian
records the exceptional because
it is interesting.
– Will Durant

16.
The secret to doing good
research is always to be a little
underemployed. You waste
years by not being able to waste
hours.
– Amos Tversky

17.
There is no sadder sight
than a young pessimist.
– Twain