alex

@alexwastaken

curious librarian

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“The truth is I’m really in pursuit of greatness. I know people don’t talk like that but I want to be one of the greats. I'm inspired by the greats. I want to be up there." - Timothée Chalamet https://t.co/bZlmQDq2dI

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Greatness

Henrik Karlsson (from “The Third Chair”):

“The stale, dry air reactivated feelings I had forgotten, feelings I had when I sat down here writing four years ago. I remembered my loneliness; I felt it with a defencelessness that I had denied myself at the time. Standing there with my groceries in hand, the intensity of the feelings took me by surprise.

My Writing Prompt

“A talent for speaking differently, rather than for arguing well, is the chief instrument of cultural change.”
― Richard Rorty

From Andy Barnes: The idea that all of the world should be measured in dollars to stockholders is actually a relatively new idea. It used to be that we thought that businesses had their purpose. Your purpose was to be making newspapers or fountain pens or whatever. And now we act as though the only purpose of a... See more

Choosing your metrics, KPIs, etc...

This month’s Frame: Using Bernard Stiegler’s pharmacological approach to heal from digital fatigue

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Core Studio Public Lecture: Virgil Abloh, “Insert Complicated Title Here”

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Investing is Just Answering a Series of Questions: Explaining the Reverse DCF

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investing wisdom

“Inside the word emergency is emerge; from an emergency, new things come forth. The old certainties are crumbling fast, but danger and possibility are sisters.”

-Rebecca Solnit (from “Hope in the Dark”)