notthevcode

“When a woman says about a man that he is intelligent, she often means handsome; when a man says about a woman that she is dumb, he always means attractive.
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What organized dating sites fail to understand is that people are far more interesting in what they don’t say about themselves.

For company, you often prefer those who find you interesting over those you find interesting.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

“I would say that the five most important skills are of course, reading, writing, arithmetic, and then as you’re adding in, persuasion, which is talking. And then finally, I would add computer programming just because it’s an applied form of arithmetic that just gets you so much leverage for free in any domain that you operate in.

If you’re good with computers, if you’re good at basic mathematics, if you’re good at writing, if you’re good at speaking, and if you like reading, you’re set for life.”
― Naval Ravikant

“To the experts, what looks like hard work from the outside, is play from the inside.”
― Naval Ravikant

“Emerson once wrote, “What you do speaks so loudly I cannot hear what you say.”
― Mark Manson, Models: Attract Women Through Honesty