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I am now going to go back over my past 2400+ posts and do a condensed thoughts list for each month. In the future I will do a condensed thoughts on the last day of the month, but for these past posts it seems reasonable to create a list, one a day, and then post them currently and retro-post them to the last day of the month from which they were found originally. Some days there may not be any bon mots, and others there will be collections of them. It will inevitably get a bit messy, but from the collection there should emerge some memorable ideas which I have forgotten. So much more memorable ideas. I have observed that a really good unique idea is almost impossible to remember, and I know I have forgotten many good ones, because they are unique and there isn’t an idea for my memory to link them to. I have learned to carry a 3×5″ note pad, and take ideas down instantly, and also carry a camera and take lots of record shots. Sometimes an idea can be remembered later if I can remember the scene and situation.

Links to sources of quotes.

1 – 12 May 2014, are lists of post titles from — January – February – March – April – May – June – July – August – September – October – November – December, — 2011

The lines below are condensed thoughts from a day in May.

13 May 2014 – John Anderson – a good companion when walking out together into a very big and very beautiful world.

14 May 2014 – When an individuals freedom to think is limited, their adaptive ability is lost and their eventual failure is certain.

15 May 2014 – It’s by applying proper actions to one’s self that we will create habits with beneficial results.

16 May 2014 – It is cheap to prepare for black swan events, and devastating to endure them when unprepared.

17 May 2014 – The eudaimon helps others by removing those others’ impediments, and in doing so sets their own habits to removing impediments from their own inner selves possibilities.

18 May 2014 – If you are serious about long term survival, it’s better to live in New Zealand.

19 May 2014 – Black swan events are not pre-known, but their effects are not unknowable, and they can be prepared for and used.

20 May 2014 – We humans can never know ourselves very well, but our computers may soon become totally self-aware.

21 May 2014   Are you are fattening yourself on stuff that is a toxic waste?

22 May 2014 – A beautiful theory has a symmetry that generates symmetrical ideas.

23 May 2014 – Knowing what you don’t know is as valuable as knowing what you do know.

24 May 2014 –  Sometimes, I am smarter than a dog, but I must see through his mind.

25 May 2014 – When people call one thing beautiful, They generate a contrast, and thus
Ugliness is also brought into being..

26 May 2014 – For a person to destroy valuable goods and kill many people that someone must have a powerful reason.

27 May 2014 – If you wade through a drunken slough you deserve a drink of cool water.

28 May 2014 – Our whole civilization looks powerful, and it is, but it is also fragile, and stressed.

29 May 2014 – We can learn how to deploy our search resources, based on what has been found to be most effective from our past experiences.

30 May 2014 – One typical tip-off that an idea is questionable is that it gives you comfort if you simply believe it to be true.