Terence Faircloth
@atelierteee
Retired Professor from Roosevelt University in Chicago. First computer was a TRS80 Model II; first app was Visicalc. Been at it ever since. Geezers can compute!
Terence Faircloth
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Your reputation isn’t what you shout, it’s what people whisper.
— Shane Parrish
An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
— Pliny the Younger
Sublime lets you think like a poet.
NotebookLM lets you think like an archivist.
In a 2017 interview, Ev Williams (the founder of Twitter), said something that has stuck with me since: “the trouble with algorithms, is that it rewards extremes. Say you’re driving down the road and see a car crash. Of course you look. Everyone looks. The internet interprets behavior like this to mean everyone is asking for car crashes, so it... See more
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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
— Charles Kingsley
Lord Keynes rightfully said that there is nothing so disastrous as a rational policy in an irrational world.
Adam Smith • The Money Game
The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.
— John Maynard Keynes
Once is a mistake; twice is a decision.
No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
— Virginia Woolf