Farnam Street Nuggets
From Open Source Ecology
June 22, 2025
- 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.
- 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.”
