Your reputation isn’t what you shout, it’s what people whisper. - Shane Parrish

We convince ourselves that low-chance events are zero-chance events and think only of best-case outcomes.

The person who carefully designs their daily routine goes further than the person that negotiates with themselves every day.

Scientific Theory of Management by Frederick Taylor, which had factory managers breaking down tasks into small pieces, forcing their workers to specialize, and financially incentivizing them to complete those tasks efficiently. It was a brute force method, but it worked pretty well.