“If you optimize for money too early, you will be minimizing for learni...” — Tim Ferriss Quote

If you optimize for money too early, you will be minimizing for learning, almost without exception.

Food became for me a way of becoming self-sufficient with my hands, to regain manual literacy, which I think has been lost on our generation and certainly younger generations. Very few people can actually make things with their hands and do things with their hands.

I encourage active skepticism - when people are being skeptical because they're trying to identify the best course of action. They're trying to identify the next step for themselves or other people.

I view myself as an experimentalist. I've tried everything in the book, and I have replicated results to one extent or another.

People who don't normally read make an exception for my books, possibly because they're short.

There is something that falls short of perfection in every book, without exception, something influenced by the age, even something ridiculous; just like everyone, without exception, has weaknesses.

I've met many journalists who impress me with their ability to play it straight. I think they're the exception to the rule.

There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule.

Sustaining Peace is happening. But it is the exception - not the norm.