Majicman Notes

Fear is something very important. If you don’t feel it, you’re stupid, right? Like, fear is an evolutionary phenomenon that informs us when we need to move out of a place. What you learn to… Read more

Tadao Ando on the inspiration for his remaking of the Bourse de Commerce: “Fifty years ago, I visited the Pantheon in Rome. No one else was there. As I stood, looking up, I came to… Read more

There are so many things in life where distinguishing between sustainable momentum and temporary luck is only known with hindsight. Maybe the broadest way to protect yourself is the simple rule that the luckier you… Read more

The Pareto principle (also known as the 80/20 rule, the law of the vital few, or the principle of factor sparsity) states that, for many events, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of… Read more

Home is not where you were born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease. Nagib Mahfouz Egyptian novelist and screenplay writer, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988 Read more

When you’re on a plane, do you think about its aerodynamics? When you look at a mountain, do you think about how precisely it was formed? Do you always notice how the music you are… Read more

When you create a difference in someone’s life, you not only impact their life, you impact everyone influenced by them throughout their entire lifetime. No act is ever too small. One by one, this is… Read more

My brave fellows, you have done all I asked you to do, and more than could be reasonably expected, but your country is at stake, your wives, your houses, and all that you hold dear.… Read more

Curiosity inspires the most exciting things in our lives, from conversation to reading books to seeing films. It drives all scientific research, and education. Other species are curious, but they don’t have the ability to… Read more

Historically, game-playing was a kind of Darwinian survival technique, teaching humans how to calculate probabilities and strategy. Now they are popular for different reasons, most obviously their ability to satisfy our deep psychological desires “to… Read more