Habits

Habits is the recurring theme of behaviors that compound quietly until they govern us — captured in Charlie Munger’s gloss on Marley’s ghost (“chains of habits that were too light to be felt before they became too strong to be broken”) and in Naval Ravikant’s framing of daily reading as an exercise-like discipline.

Where this appears

• Charlie Munger — The Psychology of Human Misjudgment — the Marley’s-ghost image of habit-chains that grow unbreakable.
• Naval Ravikant — The Angel Philosopher — reading as a daily habit, like exercise: the important thing is to do it every day.

From “Things To Internet”

• Processionary caterpillars circling the flowerpot — in The Life of the Caterpillar (English edition 1916), Jean-Henri Fabre describes pine processionary caterpillars that followed one another head-to-tail around the rim of a palm vase in his greenhouse for seven days before the circle broke (Project Gutenberg). Popular retellings add food in the middle and caterpillars starving to death; that detail is not in Fabre’s account. Saved to Kyle’s Apple Note “Things To Internet” (c. 2012–2013).