Why these values.
Tell the truth, even when it costs. Every lie is a loan against your future self, and the interest compounds.
Stay humble and do the work. The world doesn't owe anyone a result. It pays for effort applied patiently to the right problem.
Stay curious, and change your mind when the facts change. Being wrong is survivable. Staying wrong is the expensive part.
Have conviction and think in decades. Most good things look slow up close. Almost nothing worthwhile fits on a quarterly timeline.
Own what's yours. Your time, your attention, your savings, your keys. What you don't control can be taken or diluted.
And over all of it, optimism. Not the naive kind. The kind that has seen how things go wrong and builds anyway.
None of this is clever. It's just hard to keep doing. That's the point.
PoorCharlie / Charlie
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