Brian Sholis

"The only way to make sure that junior staff get the support they need is to hold managers accountable for their growth."

* "Flip over the rock in your mind, type about the beetles."

- "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 changes your life is your peers… The people you rise up with. They’re your power base. Not the person who’s already done it.”

- “On the elegant analog clock, meanwhile, time swells and recedes, like waves and seasons and life. The hands evoke the rotation of the earth, the movements of celestial objects, the cosmos.”

* “There was no “winning” this war; every act of defense and every show of loyalty served to keep the fight alive. This explains the curious fact that for all the fighting people do against cancellation, no cancelee ever vanquishes her cancelers.”

- “They found that an ideal clock — one that ticks with perfect periodicity — would burn an infinite amount of energy and produce infinite entropy, which isn’t possible. Thus, the accuracy of clocks is fundamentally limited.”

- “[Meghan] Sullivan is mainly concerned with how we relate to time as individuals, and she thinks that many of us do it poorly, because we are “time-biased”—we have unwarranted preferences about when events should happen.”