annie duke: "you have dead time. dead time is free optionality. use it to reduce the uncertainty [by learning]."
machiavelli: "there is one infallible way of checking a minister's credentials: when you see the man thinking more for himself than for you, when his policies are all designed to enhance his own interests, then he'll never make a good minister." "A ruler must be extremely careful not to say anything that doesn't appear to be inspired by the five virtues... he must seem and sound wholly compassionate, wholly loyal, wholly humane, wholly honest."
xenophon: "When my army delayed, we lost men to skirmishes, to cold, to desertion. When we moved decisively, even through enemy territory, we survived."
m.a.: "Concentrate on what you have to do. Fix your eyes on it. Remind yourself that your task is to be a good human being; remind yourself what nature demands of people. Then do it, without hesitation, and speak the truth as you see it. But with kindness. With humility. Without hypocrisy."
chip: "Data collection is a comander's intent. It's specific, it's actionable, and when you wake up confused on day 47, it tells you what matters."
voss: "I talk about three kinds of leverage: positive (you can give them something they want), negative (you can take something away), and normative (you can use their own standards against them). Right now, your positive leverage is potential. That's weak leverage. It's a promise, not a delivery. But here's the thing—every day you execute on this experiment, you're converting potential leverage into actual leverage. The moment you have a working model on the data, you have positive leverage. The moment that model shows [robustness], you have significant positive leverage."