Shane Parish on the best relentless learning

vutran | Nov. 24, 2025, 6:58 a.m.

“The best are always learning.

Read like crazy. 
Think alone. 
Keep a journal. 
Write stuff down the moment you see it. 
Review regularly. 
Memorize the big ideas to fluency. 
Attack your best ideas. 
And never get high on your own supply.

You don't have to be gifted. You do have to be deliberate.”

— Shane Parish

Seneca on bad men living among bad men

vutran | Nov. 22, 2025, 4:57 p.m.

“We are bad men living among bad men; and only one thing can calm us — we must agree to go easy on one another.”

— Seneca

James Clear on lifestyle preceding result

vutran | Nov. 9, 2025, 8:04 a.m.

"Results tend to accumulate to the person who enjoys the lifestyle that precedes the result."

— James Clear

George Carlin on the nature of human hubris

vutran | Oct. 8, 2025, 7:35 a.m.

“Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?” 

— George Carlin

Douglas Adams on human perception on innovation

vutran | Oct. 7, 2025, 7:55 a.m.

“Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.

Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.

Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.”

— Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt

Lawrence Becker on developing a philosophy about disability

vutran | Oct. 1, 2025, 12:23 p.m.

Shane Parish on positioning to make mistakes cheap

vutran | Sept. 27, 2025, 10:16 a.m.

The people who get the most done don't agonize over decisions. It's not because they have better judgment. They've just structured their lives so being wrong isn't expensive.

When mistakes are cheap, you can move fast and fix what doesn't work. When mistakes are expensive, you overthink everything and still choose wrong.

This is why startups can run circles around big companies. It's not because they're smarter, but because being wrong isn't expensive.

— Shane Parish