Quote from Kieran Setiya
Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom of things.
About a happy man –Donald Knuth’s approach to email
Philosophy begins, and in my view must end, as an attempt to answer real questions asked by real people.
Jan E. Evans • Miguel de Unamuno's Quest for Faith: A Kierkegaardian Understanding of Unamuno’s Struggle to Believe
asked me about three topics: my ultimate goals (What do you want to offer the world?), my skills (What are you doing when you feel most alive?), and my schedule (How exactly do you fill your days?). These were questions that lifted me out of the daily intricacies of my schedule and forced me to look at the big picture.
From How to know a person