- Don't destroy what you don't understand (Chesterton's Fence).

- Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. A cliche for sure, but rarely understood by moderns. See: DDT, Mao's Sparrows, GMO crops, etc.

- Eat no fruits from the past one-thousand years, drink nothing from the past four thousand.

- A man with debt or a salary is a slave. A man who has a reputation to uphold is also a slave.

- Read Socrates and drink barolo, read Game of Thrones and drink beer, but don't drink martinis and read the New Yorker; i.e. indulge in the high-brow and the low-brow, but stay away from the middle-brow - it's pretentious.

- 20 spare cots is a nice preparation to make when you only ever need an extra 10, but you should have prepared for when you need an extra 400, because now you need an extra 400 and you have none to spare; i.e. efficiency and the most-likely scenarios don't account for fat-tail events, and it's the fat-tails that will kill you, lest you understand them and prepare for them, like a pandemic.

The effects these have had on me:

- No longer experience FOMO.

- I am far less envious.

- More relaxed, non-reactive, and not easily sensationalized.

- I've developed a healthy skepticism for the new and shiny, especially in regard to scientific studies.

- Better at detecting and ignoring noise, versus signal.

- Better understand the strengths and value of tradition and religion, especially Christianity.

- Better ability to evaluate risks, upsides/downsides.

- I'm better at distinguishing a true wise man from a fool.

- I understand how iatrogenic modern medicine is, and so I am able to keep me and my family healthier by foregoing the expedient prescriptions of fragile doctors.

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There's more, but words are failing me, and that's the gist.