A Few Things I’m Pretty Sure About

> Most professions would benefit from at least one a day month where you did nothing but think

Bill Gates used to do this. Called it a "think week" - "...I would literally take boxes out to a beach place and sit there for a week reading them day and night and scribbling on them to putting it entirely online" source: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/26/bill-gates-took-solo-think-w...

It reminds me of a quote I heard recently about certainty (which I can’t quite remember, but goes something like): “The only thing certain about certainty is that it’s almost certainly wrong”. Or words to that effect. I think he forgot that one. But the rest are excellent. Update: someone told me it was Pliny who first said something like that.

“If something is impossible to know you are better off not being very smart“

Alternative view: just about everything is impossible to “know”, and so the gift of intelligence is the ability to contemplate and then pass along insights and interpretations to others.