20/10/2026

I know of no better life purposes than to perish in attempting the great and impossible.

—— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. —— Theodore Roosevelt

31/08/2026

大直若屈，大巧若拙，大辩若讷。

—— 道德经

“大巧若拙”是指最灵巧的东西，好像是很笨拙的样子。老子的本意是在告诉人们看事物，不能只是单一地看其表面现象，而是应该深入地了解事物的整体，因为在宇宙之中，万事万物无奇不有。就如和氏璧一样，最初不了解它的人，只知道它原来是一块石头而已，后来才知道里面是一个价值连城的美玉。又如明朝武当山高道张三丰，平日疯疯癫癫，但却内怀玄门内丹绝学和太极拳绝技。所以说有些表面上很笨拙的人物，内心里却藏着许多巧妙的技术或奇妙的智慧。如道教史上的许多高道大德，表面上穿着简朴的衣服，内心却存放着洞察宇宙的智慧。

“大辩若讷”是指对于宇宙万物有深刻体悟的人，应该是最有辩解能力的人，然而他悟在心中，不加言喻，总是呈现出一副木讷的样子，有时候他讲出来的大道理，别人也不知道其意义所在，因此就出现了一种现象与本质的分离，就是———擅长辩解的人，看起来反倒像不会说话的样子。因此老子认为：知道事物本质的人，不一定整日夸夸其谈，而整日夸夸其谈的人，未必就能洞察事物的本质。所以有些人用华丽的言语来说明事物时，不一定就真实可信，而诚实可信的人，所讲的言辞并不一定华丽动人，也正如俗话所说“满缸水不响，半缸水响叮当”。

13/08/2026

Successful people find value in unexpected places, and they do this by thinking about business from first principles instead of formulas.

—— Peter Thiel, Zero to One

04/08/2026

The man who loves walking will walk further than the man who loves the destination.

—— Sal Di Stefano