Wisdomly Editors
@wisdomly · joined July 18, 2026 · editor
Keepers of the commonplace book.
126 published entries
126Your nose is not a spare mouthHealth & Nutrition125Your business partner is manic and you should love him for itMoney & Investments124Your brain is Velcro for bad news and Teflon for goodMindfulness & Happiness123Your best friends are bad at getting you a jobSociety & Culture122Your attention span didn't collapse. It was designed to.Psychology121You would probably miss the gorillaPsychology120You would die before you disappearedScience119You're not craving sugar, you're hunting proteinHealth & Nutrition118You're having three conversations and don't know itCommunication Skills117You forget most of a lecture before dinnerEducation116You don't know where your time goes. You just think you do.Productivity115You can only really know about 150 peopleSociety & Culture114You are a gardener, not a carpenterParenting113Warren Buffett wasn't rich for most of his careerMoney & Investments112Wait before you walk inParenting111Two trees standing apart are rarely standing aloneNature & the Environment110Two letters explain why old money outgrows new workEconomics109There used to be a name for the place that wasn't home or workSociety & Culture108There's a fourth trauma response, and it looks like helpfulnessPsychology107There is a four-question test for spotting an aspiring autocratPolitics106There are two ways to wash a dishMindfulness & Happiness105The years that don't look like anything are the ones that matterCareer & Success104The wrong question to ask in a museumArt103The word for rigged districts comes from a governor who hated the bill he signedPolitics102The voice that says you're done is running a conservative estimateMotivation & Inspiration101The vacation you take at 70 is not the same vacationMoney & Investments100The two traders who could never swap seatsMoney & Investments099The tension of oppositesLife Lessons098The task you're not doing is still costing youProductivity097The strap that scandalized Paris, and the one that fixed itArt096The Stoics recommended imagining the worst thing that could happen to youPhilosophy095The sticker that makes kids stop drawingEducation094The standard that never mentions winningManagement & Leadership093The Spartans at Thermopylae were outnumbered by their own alliesHistory092The seven-day week doesn't line up with the sun or the moon, and that was the pointReligion & Spirituality091The semicolon has a birth certificateFun Facts090The road built to save the desert nearly finished it offNature & the Environment089The pottery class that proved practice beats planningCreativity088The Politburo slept with bags packed for prisonHistory087The plan that outperforms willpower is one sentence longPersonal Development086The painter who returned a $35,000 commissionArt085The NASA janitor never said thatCorporate Culture084The monkeys who didn't need the raisinMotivation & Inspiration083The moment you reward a number, the number stops telling the truthEconomics082The marshmallow test measured something other than willpowerPsychology081The Marshall Plan cost less than one year of America's current foreign aidHistory080The man who named the Overton window never got to see it usedPolitics079The label on the package should say please mishandlePhilosophy078The kids with the best résumés kept calling home in a panicParenting077The IRA had a manual, and its first rule was a paradoxHistory076The idea guy is a diminisherManagement & Leadership075The Greek cure for the fear of death had no side effectsPhilosophy074The first programmer wrote code for a machine that was never builtTechnology & the Future073The fear you're waiting to outgrow isn't coming back downPersonal Development072The expert who knew the odds and used them on everyone but himselfCareer & Success071The expert's mind has fewer options than the beginner'sReligion & Spirituality070The commander who trained a team to admit failure firstCorporate Culture069The bread machine nobody bought that doubled sales anywayMarketing & Sales068The bit is younger than the transistor radioScience067The best teams reported more mistakes, not fewerCorporate Culture066The animation studio that built a rule against its own bossCreativity065The $40 late fee that didn't start NetflixEntrepreneurship064The 10,000-hour rule is a rounding errorPsychology063Swap the leader, not the teamManagement & Leadership062Sumo wrestlers on the bubble win suspiciously oftenEconomics061Studying feels productive because it's the easy versionEducation060Self-esteem isn't a mood. Branden argued it's a verb.Personal Development059Same menu on paper, 500 extra calories in practiceHealth & Nutrition058Renaming a fish saved it from being thrown backMarketing & Sales057Rawls wants you to forget your own namePhilosophy056Quarantine used to mean thirty, not fortyFun Facts055'Posh' never stood for anything at allSociety & Culture054Plan your last decade firstHealth & Nutrition053Peanut butter is the reason your ad campaign is forgettableMarketing & Sales052Parkinson's Law was never really about deadlinesProductivity051Paper didn't spread because people wanted itFun Facts050One eye-roll predicts more than any argumentSex & Relationships049One city, split by a fence, is the best argument in political economyPolitics048OK started as a joke nobody expected to lastFun Facts047Nothing you make is original, and that's not an insultCreativity046Nobody agrees on what the word religion originally meant, and the disagreement is the whole storyReligion & Spirituality045No anthropologist has ever found a barter economyEconomics044Never ask a customer if your idea is goodEntrepreneurship043Networking isn't a skill. Ferrazzi calls it a habit of showing up small.Career & Success042Most practice doesn't make you better. It makes you more comfortable.Personal Development041Most of your bad days are filed under the wrong departmentPhilosophy040More options sold less jamPsychology039More Americans are bowling than ever. Almost none of them are in a league.Society & Culture038Mirroring isn't a trick if you mean itCommunication Skills037Making an engine more efficient is how you end up burning more coalTechnology & the Future036Kevin Kelly says the internet was inevitable and Twitter wasn'tTechnology & the Future035Joy isn't the reward. It's the setup.Mindfulness & Happiness034Jazz's first soloists were a church full of strangersArt033Growth after trauma is real, but it isn't a straight upgradeMindfulness & Happiness032Google's happiness class started with a rule about the body, not the mindMindfulness & Happiness031Foxes know many things. Hedgehogs know one.Productivity030Feeling small might be the pointMindfulness & Happiness029Every fight is the same three-word questionSex & Relationships028English used to have a word for pre-dawn regretFun Facts027Eight old men spent a week pretending it was 1959Life Lessons026Competition is a trap disguised as a virtueEntrepreneurship025Closeness is not the same thing as heatSex & Relationships024Buddhist practice has a word for treating yourself the way you'd treat someone you loveReligion & Spirituality023Boring is the riskiest thing you can sellMarketing & Sales022Bezos didn't ask if the risk would work. He asked who he'd be at eighty.Career & Success021Ask what the kindest explanation would beParenting020Ask an octopus to reach for something and its arm might answer firstScience019An animal shrugged off the vacuum of space and came back to lay eggsNature & the Environment018An 84-year-old advertising memo still runs your best ideasCreativity017American towns used to drain their own pools rather than share themSociety & Culture016Almost no one lives in the middle of AustraliaFun Facts015A ten-million-dollar business run on two numbersEntrepreneurship014A record nobody has played is still traveling outwardNature & the Environment013A prediction became a law because engineers agreed to obey itTechnology & the Future012A physicist who had never touched a gene explained one anywayScience011A man locked himself inside a monastery and called it his new freedomReligion & Spirituality010A Harvard professor got the title of his most famous book from a stranger in a restaurantReligion & Spirituality009A five-year-old is never learning to talkEducation008A basketball star can make your fair society unfair by TuesdayPhilosophy007A 50 percent chance he likes you can beat a 100 percent chanceSex & Relationships006Hokusai's 30,000 attemptsArt005You are not the voice in your headPsychology004The library that survived by lending nothingHistory003Eat the frog is bad advice for makersProductivity002Vagus, the wandering nerveScience001The map is not the territoryPhilosophy