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On February 2, 1905, in St. Petersburg, the philosopher and writer Alissa Zinovievna, better known to the world of letters as Ayn Rand, was born. She famously said, "When you realize that to produce, you must obtain permission from those who produce nothing; when you see that money flows to those who deal not in goods but in favors; when you notice that many become rich through bribery and influence rather than by their work, and that the laws do not protect you from them but, instead, they are protected from you; when you discover that corruption is rewarded and honesty becomes a form of self-sacrifice, then you can confidently say, without fear of being wrong, that your society is doomed." Her words, which touch on themes of power, corruption, and inequality, continue to resonate as a chilling prediction about the potential decline of society under certain conditions.

People love the idea of discipline until it demands boredom, repetition, and isolation. But that’s where all leverage is born, away from noise, ego, and distractions. Mastery looks boring until the results speak for you.

You speak too much, explain too much, reveal too much. Every word drains value. The disciplined version of you speaks only what serves. Then silence multiplies your presence, turning your restraint into mystery and your mystery into power others can’t ignore.

You are admired only when you win. Until then, you are tolerated at best, mocked at worst, and invisible in between. This is the law of existence: success or contempt. The world does not pity the unsuccessful man, it condemns him.

“Social justice is a fraud, a promise to distribute what one would not have if one followed its bidding. Wealth just would not be there or would rapidly disappear.” — Friedrich Hayek

If you want to measure a person’s discipline, observe how they behave when no one is watching. Reputation shapes performance, but solitude reveals identity. The strongest men obey principles in private that others only perform in public.

Fear feeds on delay. Starve it with action. Every time you procrastinate, the fear monster grows a little bit. What are you putting off that you need to do or finish?

The art of life is restraint. Few men fail from weakness; most fall from excess, too much talk, too much pride, too much reaction. Moderation isn’t dullness; it’s power disguised as calm.

The gap between average and exceptional is tolerance. The best simply endure longer. They do what others stop doing. Success is less about genius and more about refusing to quit when progress gets quiet.

“When you start paying people to be poor, you wind up with an awful lot of poor people.” — Milton Friedman

Only Ayn Rand was smart enough to predict that..ENVY of excellence will lead to dystopian social outcomes. Orwell thought we'd need total mind control, Huxley thought we'd need a permanently drugged populace, but Rand knew: all you need is resentment — Jash Dholani

Men admire in women masculine virtues (self-accountability, logic, composure, self-command) expressed through feminine embodiment - not as an imitation of man, but as a refinement of character. Women admire in men feminine virtues (empathy, tenderness, intuition, receptivity) expressed through masculine embodiment - not as softness without toughness, but as completeness. So each sex seeks the best of its own principle integrated in the opposite, their natural polarity preserved but elevated. Men and women are thus seeking the best of themselves in their opposite in stable contrast - a marriage within so there can be a marriage between - recursive union - what beauty!

If you can't explain it to a child, you don't understand it well enough

universality of computation: Anything that a physical object can do can be emulated by a program.

All people are subject to error.

There can be only one type of person: "universal explainers". Universal explainers can create explanatory knowledge.