Andrei Stoica

Here is how Plutarch, classical biographer par excellence, described his attraction to the stories of great men:

We may say, then, that achievements of this kind, which do not arouse the spirit of emulation or create any passionate desire to imitate them, are of no great benefit to the spectator. On the other hand virtue in action immediately takes

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By the time those ideas’ productivity was realized, they were relatively old ideas. As Perplexity concluded, “In conclusion, while the 1950s and 1960s saw remarkable TFP growth, this ‘golden age’ was largely built on technological innovations and research from earlier decades, particularly the 1930s and 1940s.” There was a two decade lag.

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Loewenberg notes that this design was incredibly simple and inexpensive to create:

‘‘it is the simplest box we have ever built, and in fact, the hardest part of the job was convincing the contractors that other than the cost of the materials to extend the balcony slabs this would be no different from building the basic box.’’ Ultimately, Loewenberg

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I designed & built a personal office / art studio in the forest behind my home. We call it "the nook,” and it took 4 months start to finish. Want to see inside? 🧵 https://t.co/t961FBtMPc

This map trick may seem a bit strange at first, but it's worth spending some time wrapping your head around it. We will be using this method many times throughout the course.

My frustration with Brody boils down to the reasons I see movies in the first place. I didn’t watch many growing up; I always preferred the dense solitude of a book. But the big screen in a black box is an experience of total immersion that feels special and rare in our focus-starved age. I’m becoming worse at escaping into novels, but in a cushion... See more