Brian Sholis

- “Perhaps our biggest time error is near bias—caring too much about what’s about to happen, and too little about the future.”

- "The aggregate carbon footprint of Shopify’s fragmented conglomerate of small internet businesses on the other hand, is massive. Each product line houses an inefficient, dysfunctional (mini) supply chain, involving extra transport steps, re-boxing and temporary warehousing, drastically increasing CO2 emissions (and baseline cost) when compared to... See more

- "What could be more worthy, and rewarding, I think, than to give over the second half of life to the recovery of the first?"

- “What is our role in the world? To what extent is our institution a vehicle for political progress as opposed to academic excellence? Rational decision-making is impossible if these questions are left hanging, but at the same time it’s not hard to see why nobody tries to resolve them.”

- “One major aspect of the mystery of time is the fact that it doesn’t play the same role in quantum mechanics as other quantities, like position or momentum; physicists say there are no “time observables” — no exact, intrinsic time stamps on quantum particles that can be read off by measurements. Instead, time is a smoothly varying parameter in... See more

* “The geographic circle of life has expanded, so friendship strategies that depend on constant proximity are no longer effective.”

* "I find that people often believe they have a writing technique problem, when, actually, what they have is a sincerity problem."