Farnam Street Nuggets

You become what you scroll. Choose accordingly.

Commitment issues aren't about the options. They're about the operator.

When you know what you want, most choices eliminate themselves.

The greatest business failures often come not from playing the game poorly, but from continuing to excel at things that no longer matter.

Insights

Japanese saying on the art of thoughtful elimination:

“Your garden is not complete until there is nothing else you can take out of it.”

Napoleon on having a detective's eye and noticing the details, even the invisible ones:

“All great events hang by a single thread. The clever man takes advantage of everything, neglects nothing that may give him some added opportunity; the less clever man, by neglecting one thing, sometimes misses everything.”