Insights And Advices Collected Along The Way, Part 3

Notes From My Friends (From 2021 to 2025)

Insights And Advices Collected Along The Way, Part 2

锦囊妙计 (jǐn náng miào jì): Sometimes called "Zhuge's Break Glass Sachets". It describes an ingenious way or a resourceful person who writes the strategic contigencies against adversaies and adversities on a note and puts them in a `breakglass` kit so that the person concerned can read it in an emergency. It is an ingenious way of metaphor preparation.

Life is filled with uncertainties for mortals. The higher the resolution the situation is for you, the higher certainty and confidence level you would have for analysis before a well-informed decision. Where possible, derive the common denominator and the single source of truth.

The more we know, may subject us to certain confusion, but refined thoughts lead us to liberating clarity. I do not know a better way of surmounting temptations than being greater than the circumstance. To err is human, but to strive for the attainment of `perfection` is to claim your `godliness`.

Don’t worry about entropy if you are certain of your degree of uncertainty; at least you have got the first step on. — Re: Entropy and Uncertainty, 2006–01.17

Don't throw good money after bad. - Lauren Musto 
Is the juice worth the squeeze? - Lauren Musto
- 2021

How do we balance between the Sunk cost bias versus the confirmation bias? The challenge to make a decision within the unknowns and biases subjects us to the fog of war. Objectivity can come clear in time, in hope without a painful hindsight.

Most of the time, there is simply no need to explain things to people. They will just drag you down the rabbit hole. Leave them be. Unless they are in key positions and actively misleading people/projects/critical work/safety. Else just let them rot in their limited space/time. One doesn't owe them anything and unless they are genuinely keen to know the truth, unravel the confusion too. - Garfield, 2021-02.06